Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 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 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 oi Indianapolis, Thursday, April 26, 1888, for the purpose of adopting a platform ot principles ami the nomination of candidate ; to be supported for the following offices: Governor. Lieutenant Governor. Three’ Judges of the Supreme Court. Secretarv of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Reporter of the Supreme Court. Attorney General. Superintendent of Public Instructio . 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 Congressiona 1 district, and the several committees, will meet on the evening previous to the convention, at places to be hereafter designated b/ this committee, for the purpose of s lecting 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. Tin delegates to National Convention. Two alternate delegates to National Convention. One Presidential el mt r. One contingent. Pres'dential elector. One member of the State Centia-. C >rnmittee. 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 conve ition; four delegates at large, and four alt-mate 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. The Democratic State Treasury of Texas has a surplus of $3,000, 000. An extra session of the Legislature has been called to reduce taxation. The Republican State Treasury of Ohio* is bankrupt. ‘Gin’ral’ Foraker is ■ financier. Pile o the taxes'