Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

Call of the Democratic State Central Committee. Indianapolis, March 8,1888. The voters of Indiana, regardless of past political affiliations, who are desirous of co-operating with the Democracy iu 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 ot principles and the nomination of candidate j to be supported for the following offices: Governor. Lieutenant Governor. Three Judges of the Supreme Court. Secretarvof 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 d 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 convention: One Committeeman on permanent organization. One Committeeman on Platform and Resolutions. One Vice-President <or the convention. One Assistant Secretary for the convention. Tvv( delegates to National Convention. Two alternate delegates to National Convention. One Presidential elector. One contingent Pres ; dential elector. One member of the State Centra'. Committee. 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 for the State at large, and two contingent electors, and also to recommend rules for the government of the convention. By order of the State Central Committee. E. P. Richardson, . E. O. Johnson, Chairman. Secretary. Gen. C trnahau sho’d demand a speedy trial. The constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen indicted for an offense against the f**B the right to a speedy trial by fary. The U. S. Court at Indianseems to pay no heed to this fcbecaae of General Carnahan.

Remember the call for the Democratic County Convention, Saturday, April 14th next In the ways and means committee the republican members are divided on the tobacco Itt— Kelley and Reed favor its abolition, while Burrows and Brown fav<& its retention.

Sam Randall wants to lop off abo t $80,000,000 ot the whiskey and tobacco tax, and continue high duties on the necessaries of life. — This will suit Jim Blaine and Republicans generally, and our Billy O yens in particular.

The Philadelphia Record says ‘‘no argument can break down the fact that mannfaeturers can make cheaper goods and pay Detter wages if they could buy cheaper wool, cheaper dye-stuffs,cheaper lumber, cheaper jute, hemp and flax, cheaper chemicals and other crude materials. And no argument will prevail,” it says, “to convince the laboring man that he will be injured by cheaper food, cheaper clothing, cheaper shelter, cheaper earthenware, and cheaper utensils.”

A nameless ass, anxious to show up his smartness, undertook to explain in last week’s R 'publican that the Democratic committee was very stuped in retaining John Lefler for Hanging Grove, insisting that he was not a citizen of that township. We suggested that “If Youngster will attend the polls in Hanging Grove, he will ascertain where John LefLr votes. To which he this week responds with crushing verdancy: ‘Old Stupidity, who will be there to inform me?’ No unforseen circumstances preventing, John Lefler will be there to vote. He is a Demoerat who fails not in this line of duty.‘Youngster’s’ eyes will not deceive him in this matter. It seems, too, that our reflections upon his pe s, Brute Ingalls and Lize Pinkston, are disturbing his in’ards.

Our old friend, ‘J R.,’ in his plea for Ben Harrison, in the Republican, says his favorite “was defeated last year by the most fnfamous proceedings.” The ‘infamous proc?edings’ referred to commenced in the House, in the interest of his man, and with his connivance. But the attempted repetition of the game of ’76 didn’t pan out —the grandson of his grandfather was left at home to ponde,. over his “ways that were mean and t icks that were vain’’ and a much bet er man, in every respeit, now represents Indiana in the United States Senate.