Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — Greenback Congressional Convention. [ARTICLE]

Greenback Congressional Convention.

A delegate Convention of the National Greenback Labor party of the 10th Congressional district of the State of Indiana, will be held at Monticello, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1880, at which time and place a candidate for Congress to be voted for in October, 1880, will be nominated, and such other business as will be proper in the premises be transacted. The convention will assemble at 10 o’clock a. in., at the Court House in said town. The basis of representation will be as follows, to-wit: One delegate for each 100 votes or fraction thereof greater than 50 cast for Henley James for Secretary of State in 1878, and one delegate at large for eacii county, The apportionment of delegates is as follows: Counties. No Del. Lake, - ... 3 Porter, - - . . 10 Newton, - - - _ , 7 .Jasper, - - . _ g Pulaski. 7 Fulton, - - . .5 Cass, 9 Carroll, - - . - 0 White, - - . . g Benton, - - 0

Total, - - - 67 The several counties of the district will select their delegates at their county nominating conventions if the same are held prior to the meeting of the Congressional Convention; if not, then all voters in the several counties composing the district, who oppose the National Bank monopoly, are in favor of the soil for of all money, either coin or paper, to be issued by the government direct, and made a full legal tender, who are in favor of the emancipation of labor and opposed to all jobs and corruptions in the administration of our government, will meet at a central

point, in their several counties on Satcbday, the loth day of May, 1880, and select delegates to represent them at the Congressional Convention, ns above. By order of the Congressional Central Committee. ROBERT GREGORY. Ch’n. Walt. S. Hartman, Sec’y. Monticeilo, Feb. 20,1880. For the purpose of making the organization throughout the State useful and effective, the following directions are issued by the De nocratic State Central Committee: 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, tit the meeting for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the April election, should select its local committee and the officers thereof 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 its soon thereafter as possible organize by the selection of the necessary officers. •1. The chairman,, secretaries arid treasures o p County committee in each judicial or joint legislative district should eonstin te the joint committee for said district. 5. The ehait tuan 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. (5. Immediately after the organization of ti e 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 conn ty and township nominees of the party, giving post-office address of eaen. should be transmitted to these head quarters immediately after selection. 8. Ai the last legislative apportionment leaves many joint represent - tive districts without pioperly authorized committees, therefore, to pro vent the possibility of confusion in such districts tlie following instruc tiens are issued: The chairmen, secretaries at d tiens urers, pr .ner, of the committees in the counties composing a joint representative district shall constitute the committee for such district. The chairman of the committee from the most populous county shall act as chairman of such joint tom mittee. If i>y reason of an even vote of such committee there should be it failure to determine ratio of representation for joint 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 aml rep oils to headquarters containing names or figures, should be plainly written out in order that mistakes may be avoided. Don’t fail to go to (J. C Starr’s new store for anything you want in the Grocery or Qucensware line, and examine his goods and prices before making your purchases. Standard goods and low prices, for cash, is his motto.