Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

Call of the Democratic State Central Committee. Indianapolis, Match 8,1888. The voters of Indiana, regardless of past nolitical affiliations, who are desirous of co-operating with the Democracy in the support of its principles and nominees, are invited to participate m the meetings called throughout the State for the purpose of selecting representatives to attend a Delegate Convention to be held in the city oi Indianapolis, Thursday, April 26, 1888, for the purpose of adopting a platform of principles and the nomination of candidate i to be supported for 4;he following offices: Governor. Lieutenant Governor. Three Judges of the Supreme Court. Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Reporter of the Supreme Court. Attorney General. Superintendent of Public Instructs , The ratio of representation will be one delegate for each two hundred votes cast for Governor Isaac P. Gray in 1884, and one delegate for each fraction of one hundred or over (Japer county is given five delegates. ) The delegates for each Congressional district, and the several committees, will meet on the evening previous to the convention, at places to be hereafter designated by this committee, for the purpose of s leeting and reporting to the cinvention: On£ Committeeman on permanent organization. One Committeeman on Platform and Resolutions. One Vice-President ior the convention. One Assistant Secretary for the convention. Tw( delegates to Natioral Convention. Two alternate delegates to National Convention. One Presidential elector. One contingent Presdential elector. One member of the State Cenlra% 0 >mmittee. . O e Committeeman on Credentials. It will be the duty of the Committee on Permanent Organization to report a Presid nt and principal Secretary for the convention; four delegates at large, and four alternate delegates to the National Convention; two electors so: the State at large, and two contingent ©lectors, and also to recommend rules for the government of the convention. By order of the State Central oommittee. E. P. Richardson, E. O. Johnson, Chairman. Secretary. Senator Ingalls has been refused admission to the first degree of the Loyal Legion on the ground that he has no record as a soldier—having.been but a camp-follower in the position of judge advocate. He h s been refused admission to the the third degree—which requires no such reread—on account of his Lai-a, jjiJl civ/os and un a’ded for

abuse of Generals McClellan and Hancock.

We do not think our township •lection should be permitted to go by default. Because we have been defeated heretofore it is no reason that it should remain so and that we are always to be defc ated. Had the National Democracy not per sistently contested for the supremacy, neither Mr. Tilden or Mr. Cleveland would have been elected. A fownship ticket composed of of good, competent men will have due weight

There re perhaps a dozen emiuent and true Republicans whose names are frequently mentioned in connection with the presidential n. mination. Any one of these would, we doubt not, fill the office with ability, dignity and fidelity to Republican principles.—Renssel aer Republican. But the d— ence of it is, out of the dozen all but three decline to stand up only to be knocked down. Tbey see no fun in it

And now Bob Lincoln announces that his “name will not be presented to the Repablican convention” for the presidential nomination The list of Rep oliean candidates is now narrowed down to Sherman, Gresham and Harrison.'

The Cincinnati CommercialGazette, the leading Republican organ in Ohio, is not much enamored of Gresham. It savs: “He started iu public life as a Know-Nothing— adjourned court in 1876 to come to Cincinnati to fight Morton—and has not denied the charge made by the Evansville Courier that he voted fer Tilden. He was understood to entertain the same free trade views that captivated Geo. W. Julian and Senator McDonald—and when in Arthu ’s Cabinet he antagonized every Republican congressman in that State and vouldn’t go home to vo'e. He offended the Grand Army in the Paul Vandervoort case, and offended public sentiment in the driven well business; and he has made implacable foes at once of the workingmen and the moneyed men —so that on one side it would be impossible to raise money to carry on a campaign with him, and the vote of he labor organizations would be solid against him.” And thus it goes. The supporters of Sherman, Gresham and Harrison are engag vi in *? triangular fight. The Republican Generalissimo of this district, Simon P. Thompson has become alarmed at the damaging records presented by themselves against aspirants of their own party, and assumes to call them to a sense of duty. He this weels advises the Newton county Republicans, through the columns of the Goodland Republican, to “go it mild, ’ and not compelled to go through the ungracious performance of “crawfishing!” He tells them that “Indiana being a doubtful state, the virtues and faults of our loved Statesmen seem to Re on dress parade in the newspapers, at which he is displeased, and adds: “No geometrical measU - e of any man’s present popularity can be taken. Compara ive estimates of the per cent of ; voters who favor any one man simply mirror a wish or an assumption.” * * * “A delegate should not be hampered by personal bias but look to a party triumph.” * .

‘‘Any assumption that all Hoosiei s are so wedded to any one mai/g “boom” as to refuse support with other selection, is net creditable to our good sense.” He closes with the following ‘hint’ to the befogged and warring organs under his supervision: “Now if the miilenial era of good feeling eould be enforced to the extent that the Press would, until the ideas (ides) of November, herald the virtues and touch lightly upon the faults ot the brethren, it would be a consummation devoutly to be wished.” * * * Ku uaubt of it

Now let Simon mail a copy of his ultimatum to the Cincinnati Commeroial-Gazette,” with the additional hint: “Let us have pease.”