Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF JASTER COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF JASTER COUNTY.

Pursuant to notiee. the members of the Democratic Central Committee of Jasper county, Ind., met at the Committee rooms, in Rensselaer, on Saturday. May 31st, 1884, and the following proceedings were had, Ezra C. Novvels in the chair, to-wit: The basis for delegates to the Ju dicial and Representative Convene tious was agreed upon. Each township is entitled to one del. gate, and one one additional for every Laoiou over fifty votes cist for Secretary oi State Myers, at the last election, <- = follows: Township. Delegates Hanging Grove, 1 Gillam, 1 Walker. 2 Barkley, 3 Marion, 5 .Jordan, 1 Newton, 3 Keener, 1 Kankakee, 1 Whea field, 1 Mllroy, 1 Union, 3 Carpenter, 4 No. of Del gates. 27 The basis for delegates to the County Convention, to be held in Rensselaei, August 9th, 1884, was fixed at one delegate for every 10 votes, and one for each fraction over, cast for Secretary of State Myers at the last election, and is as follows: Township Delegates. Hanging Grove, 4 Gillam, 5 Walker, 6 Barkley, 11 Marion, 20 Jordan, 5 Newton, 7 Keener. 2 Kankakee, 4 Wliea field, 3 Milroy. 3 Union, 6 Carpenter, 15 No. of Del gates, 91 The delegates to the Judicial and Representative Conventions will be selected at t.ie same time and place as those for the County Convention, provided the conventions are not called fer an earlier date. In case the Judicial and Representative Con ventions meet that, it is recommended that delegate s be selected on the Saturday previous John G. Culp, Joel F. Spriggs, Lewis Rich, B. H. Patton and W.L.Brin* gle were appointed a Committee or Ways and Means. The several townships arc recoin* mended to select delegates to the Con entions named, on the first Saturday in August next. It was moved, and carried, that Committee and Club rooms.be secured for the campaign, at the rate of $4 per month. EZRA C. NOWELS, ChairmanJames W. Dodteit Seo’y.

The organization of the “Mulligan Guards” will now be in order. The Kentland Gazette intimates to legislative aspirants in this county that Jasper can not reasonably ex pect both—the Judicial aftd Repre* Tentative—nominees. William Walter Phelps tslegrap’ ed from Chicago to Jo 1 n A. Logan, on the 2d, that “Harrisou has acted like a hog ” Bather rough on the grandson of his grandfatherf James #uano Blaine, of Maine, the particular friend and admirer of Mulligan, was placed in nomination for President, to-day, at Chicago, on the fifth ballot. While he was no dioubt the first choice of the half-breed element here, the announcement of the result called forth no enthusiasm. Blaine can, should at.d will be beat-* en. The Republican Convention at Chicago is particularly noted Tor the ab* sence of the great leadiag minds of the party who have heretofore con*trolled the proceedings and shaped the policies. Those in management to-day are chiefly the district leaders, blowers and strikers of the the halfbreed and stalwart factions, the half* breeds apparently the most aggress? ire. The Blaineites have Issued cartoons representing Arthur being tossed from his boom by a herd of infuriated half-breed cattle.

SJohn A. Logan, of Illinois, is the Republican nominee for Tice President