Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — The Democratic State Convention! [ARTICLE]

The Democratic State Convention!

Call of the State Committee. Indianapolis, J uly 21,1886. The voters of Indiana who are desirous of co-operating with the Democracy in the support of its principles and nominees are invited to participate in the meetings called throughout the State for the purpose of selecting representatives to attend a delegate convention to be held in the city of Indidianapolis, at 10 o’clock a. m., Wednesday, August 11, 1886, for the purpose of adopting a platform of principles and the nomination of candidates to be supported for the following offices: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Judge of the Supreme Court, (3d District), Clerk of the Supreme Court, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction. and for such other matters as may be presented to the convention. The ratio of representation will be as heretofore fixed by the Executive Committee in its circular letter of J une 9,1886, and authorized by this committee, which ratio is and will be as follows: One delegate for each 200 votes cast for Governor Isaac P. Gray in November, 1884, and o,e for each fraction of ‘over 100. (Jasper county is entitled to five delegates). The delegates from each Congressional District w:ll meet on the evening prior to the convention, at places to be hereafter announced by the c mimittee, for the purnose of selecting and reporting to the convention: One Committeeman on Permanent Organization. One Committeeman on Credentials. One Committeeman on Platform and Resolutions. One Vice President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. One member of the State Central Committee. The following railroad rates have been obtained, viz: Round trip tickets will be sold from all stations in Indiana for a fare and onetliir i, good August 10 and 11, and returning good until August 18. Eb. Hendersox, Chairman. Joseph S. Riley, Secretary. State Convention Delegates.— Ralph Fendig, William H. Well i Joel F. Spriggs, Lucius Strong, John Tillett. Do not fail to read tlispeech of Judge Jordau. On first page.

Miss Gerti- Clark is visiting in Michigan, Miss Ella Ryan returned Monday from the Richmond Normal A new time table went into operation Monday. The morning express south at 9:21; evening express north at 5:36. A through mail and passenger goes south at at 11:20 a. m.; north at 4:02 p. m. This train does not stop at this point. - ■ «» ■ Ex-sheriff Powell has a contract for grading a few miles of the extension of the .& I. Coal Railway. —* Mrs. Chas. P. Mavhew, of Red Bluffs, California, formerly of this place, is .isiting relatives and friends in Jasper county. The Board of Commissioners were in session Monday and Tuesday making the regular August settlement with the Township Trustee. A contract was given the Wrought-Iron Bridge Company, of Canton, Ohio, for a .bridge over the Pinkamink, north of Pleasant Ridge, at $l,lBO. Two other bridges—one for $348, and the other for $235, —were ordered to be built. Wood work for office for clerk was given to Ed. H. Morlan for $431, and stone work to Jamas Maloy at $335.

The Message says its “editor is waylaid and beaten like a cur, his reputation is aspersed, his private business is menaced.” Evidently our neighbor is over-anxious to pose as a martyr. Only a few weeks ago he compared himself to Sumner, Lincoln, Garfield.— Bah! Keep on in your reform efforts, have a club handy and let the next fellow that approaches you with violent intent have its full weight, with your might and force added thereto, but for God’s sake, stop your whining! Even the ladies, naturally so sympathetic, are beginning to “laugh at your calamity, and to mock when your fear cometh.” Your eyes have a Burned their natural color, the nobby walking stick is not a necessary aid to your pedestrianistic powers, you suffer no more pain from the unfortunate and uncalled for chastisement, and can afford to stop howling. Take a brighter view of the affair. Apply to your case the dec aration that “Whom the Lord lovetli He ehasteneth,” and you’ll b 3 happy yet.