Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION! [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION!

ftie Ratio of Representation by Delegates for Each County. The following call has been issued by the Democratic State Central Committee: Tiie voters of Indiana, regardless of past political affiliations, who are desirous of co-operating with tiie Democracy in the support of its principles and nominees, are invited topaiticipate in the met tings called tliro’out the State for the purpose of se lecting rehresentatives to attend a delegate convention, to beheld in the City of Indianapolis, WEDNESDAY, JUNE9,IBBO, for the purpose of adopting a platform of principles and the nomination of candidates to be supported for the folic wing offices; Gov ernor, iieuD mint governor, two judges of the supreme court, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, clerk of the supreme court reporter of the supreme court, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction. The ratio of representation will be one delegate for each 2<J(j votes cast for Governor James D. Williams, in 1876, and one delegate for each fraction of 100 or over, as follows:

Counties'. vote for No. of Williams. Del. Adams 1,98:1 9 Allen 7,558 88 liartholomew 3,818 11 Benton 1.179 6 Blackford 813 4 Boone 3,405 12 Brown 1.358 (i Carrol! 3.388 11 Cass : 8,515 18 Clark • 3,335 16 Clay.: 3,882 13 Clinton 3,821 13 Crawford.... 1,338 8 Daviess 3,141 13 Dearborn ■■. 3,438 13 Decatur.... 3.413 13 Delaware 1,884 8 DeKalb 2,597 13 Dubois 3,381 13 Elkhart 3,410 17 Ell vet te, 1.307 7 Floyd 2,857 14 Fountain 2,i)81 10 Franklin .' 3 993 15 Fulton 1,724 9 Gibson 3,382 II Grant 2.058 10 Greene 2,121 11 Hamilton 1,782 9 Hancock 2,104 11 Harrison 2,411 12 Hendricks 1,872 9 Henry 1,881 9 llowaid 1,744 9 Huntingdon 2 520 13 ■Jackson 2,738 14 Jasper 722 4 .Jay 1,844 9 Jefferson 2,772 Jennings 1.778 9 Johnson . 2,381 12 Knox 3,132 18 Koscisko 2.888 13 Lagrange 1,205 8 Lake 1,274 8 I.aporte 3,888 18 Lawrence 1,074 8 Madison 3.413 17 Marion... 11,350 ot Marshall 2,805 14 Martin 1.838 .Miami 2,944 15 Monroe 1.5. >9 8 Montgomery 3,188 16 Morgan I-*® 10 Newton * ,1 Noble 2,636 13 Ohio 558 4 Orange 1.620 » Owen ; 1,911 10 Parke. 1.855 ® Perrv 1,758 9 Pike 1-600 8 Porter 1,630 8 Posey 2,364 12 Pulaski 1,221 6 Putnam! 2,805 14 Randolph 1.995 10 Kip lev 2,370 12 Hush’ 2,201 11 Scotr. 1,003 5 Shelby 3,178 16 Spencer 3,475 12 Starke 590 3 Steuben 796 4 St. Joseph 3,524 18 Sullivan 2.892 1! Switzerland 1.388 7 Tippecanoe ... 3,183 30 Tipton 1.753 9 Union 799 4 Yanderburg 3.933 20 Vermillion 1,032 5 Vigo ... 3,673 IK Wabash ." 2,311 12 warren . Warrieh.. 2,260 11 Wayne 3.162 16 Washington.... 2.344 12 Wells., 2,307 12 White 1,496 7 W) itlev 2,096 10

Total delegate. l * • • • 1,069 Necessary ta a choice ... 525 The delegates from each congressional district will meet on tiie evening previous to the convention, at places to be hereafter designated by this committee, for the purpose of selecting and reporting to the convention one committeeman on per manent organization, one committeeman on platform and resolutions, one vice president for the convention, one assistant secretary for the convention, two delegates to National Peraocratic convention, two alternate delegates to National Democratic convention, one presidential elector, one contingent presidential elector, one member of the State Central Committee to serve for the ensuing two years, and one committeeman on ere dentials,

The committee on platform and re solutions will meet immediately after the adjournment of the district meetings, say 9 o'clock p. in., at the consultation rooms of thesupreme court. Tuesday evening, June 8. The committee on permanent organization will meet at the same hour in the governor’s office. It will be their duty to name a president and principal secretary of the convention, four delegates at largo and four alternate delegates to the National eon vention, two electors for the State at large, and also two contingent electors, and also recommend rules for the government of the convention. The committee on credentials will meet at 8 o’clock,a. tm» Wednesday, June 9, at rooms of the State Central Committee, to determine such contests as may be submitted to them. Delegate tickets of admission to convention will be issued to the chairman of each county delegation, and to authorized r presentatives of the press upon the presentation of credentials at the State Central Committee rooms, Masonic building. By order of the Democratic State Central Committee. B. C, Shaw, Chairman. James H. Rice, Secretary. In connection with the above call the committee have issued the following CIRCULAR. In politics, as iu business, success is tnosi surely attained by systematic organization and energy. No matter how earnest members of a party may be, individually, it requires unity of action to accomplish definite results. It is utteily impossible to conduct a campaign with any degree of cer tainty unless there is a method adopted by which reports can be reliably and promptly made to the proper au thority of the party. The primary and most important matter in a campaign is the appointment of members on the standing committees, to which is intrusted the party management of each locality; therelore the utmost care should be exercised in their selection. No person should be chosen to such position simply for the purpose of giving tone and dignity to the organization, but more especially for their knowledge. earnestness, and activity in political management, prompt iu the execution of duties assigned them, and possessing the confidence of the patty iu their locality as to efficiency, and who will consent to devote the ! necessary time to the party’s interest I and promptly communicate with the ’ several headquarters in relation there- I to. j

For the purpose of making the organization throughout the State useful and effective, the foliowiug directions are issued: 1. Organization should begin as early as possible in the campaign year at a time prior to the April election; certainly before the meeting of the State convention. 2. Each township, at the meeting for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the April election, should select its local committee and the officers {hereof for the ensuing two years. 3. The chairman of the several township committees thus chosen, should, at the meeting of the County convention, be selected as members of the County Central Committee, which should as soon thereafter as possible organize by the selection of the necessary officers. 4. The chairman, secretaries and treasures of County committee ia each judicial or joint legislative district should eonstiti te the joint committee for said district. 5. The ehait man of the several county committees in each district should constitute tne congressional district committee, having for its chairman the member of the State Central com mittee, who is selected by the district delegates in State convention. G. Immediately after the organization of.the County Central committee, the chairman or secretary thereof should transmit to these headquarters the names, township and post office address of each officer and member thereof 7. A full and complete list of noun ty and township nominees of tiie party, giving post-office address of eacn, should be transmitted to these head quarters immediately after selection. 8. As the last legislative apportionment leaves many joint represent -■ tive districts without pioperly authorized committees, therefore, to prevent the possibility of confusion in such districts the following instructions are issued: The chairmen, secret-tries and treas nrers, pr- ner, of the committees in the counties composing a joint representative district shall constitute tiie committee for such district. The chairman of the committee from the most populous county shall act as chairman of sueh joint <ommittee. If t»y reason of an even vote of such committee there should be a failure to determine ratio of representation forjoiat convention, then, in that case the ratio shall be one delegate for each 100 votes cast for Governor James D. Williams and one delegate for each fraction of 50 or over. These rules will also apply to judicial district committees. 9. All communications, filling of blanks and reports to headquarters containing names or figures, should be plainly written out in order that mistakes may be avoided.

John Hunt, of lowa, will not attend a prayer meeting for six months to come. The Detroit Free Press says that one of the brethren in a prayer meeting asked him to sing, and he yanked this out; Away 3own South A nigger in the water Was standin’ in a mill pond Longer than he oughter* The judge gave him six mouths. Don’t fail to go to C. C Starr’s new store for anything you want in the Grocery or Queensware line, and examine his goods and prices before making your purchases. Standard do 1 • -r. J. IGV.O, XV/t AO lltw motto.