People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — A Free Silver Colony. [ARTICLE]

A Free Silver Colony.

R. J. and William Homap, brothers, who were extromely active in preaching the silver doctrine during the campaign to the crowds which assembled in the square in front of the Denver city hall, have organized a company of free silver men, who propose to start a cooperative oolony in western North Carolina At a meeting held by some 400 of these men temporary officers were chosen, and it was decided to purchase L 000 acres of government land in North Carolina, the purpose being to start a colony there in about a month. Two hundred members pledged $2,000 as a nucleus to the fund required.