Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1898 — CALL FOR CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR CONVENTION

Democrats, and all other voters who expect to effiliate with them, are requested to meet in mass con* vention at 2.30 o’clock d* m. on SATURDAY, M Y 21, 1898, at the places herein named, and elect one dele-: ate for each ten votes cast for tbe first elector on the Democratic eleetf ral ticket in D9o. The places of meeting, and nem* her of delegate iare as follows, to wit: Hanging Grove, McOoysburg, 5 dtlegates. Walker, Hershm n school house 11 delegates Gillum, Centei school house, 9 delegates. Barkley, east precinct, Cosy Pal ace, 4 delegates Barkley, west precinct, Cosy Pslace. 6 delegates. Jordan, Egypt school hou 13 delegates. Ntiwtou. Sayler school hous?, 8 delegatts. Keener, DeMotte, 6 delegates. Kankakee, Dunnv'lle 6 “ Wheatfield, Wheatfield, 8 “ Carpenter, south precinct, Remington, 4 delegates. Carpenter, east precinct, Remingtor, 9 delegates. Carpenter, west precinct, R mington, 8 de’egates. Milroy, Center school house, 6 delegates Union, south nrecinct, Wild Lily school hou e, 10 del gates.

Union, north precinct, Fair Oaks 7 delegates Marion, No. 1, Eger’s shop, 8 delegates. Ma ion, No. 2, “ “ 11 delegates. Marion, No. 3, “■ “ 10 delegates. Morion, No 4, “ 11 delegates. The delegates so electee will meet m delegate convention at Rensselaer, ludiaua, on SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1898, at 2 o’clock p m. and nominate a county ticket to be voted for it the November electi n and select del egates 1 1 the several district conventions. D. W SHIELDS, John Walters, Chairman. Secretary.

Protection in the East.”.. Maassachuset s cotton manufacturers, although protedted in the|e ► treme by the Dingley ta iff, UrJ crying out for mote protection. T. Jefferson Ooolidge has ju c t presented a p titiou to the Massachusetts legislatuie which in some respects is a most remarkable document. Among other things-ihe following are set forth in this pe titiou; “Every week adds more than 1,000 persons to the population of the strie seeking employment, a large pr portion of whom are' dependent upon the tools and machiu-ry which cap tal supplies. “if cotton manufacturing in the slat , becomes unprintable, one of two tilings must happen .. wage will be r duced or the business will be abandoned, as hasbeeu the case in the iron and glass Indus tries. Either of these consequences would be a great misfortune, which the legislature should, if possible, preveut in the only way iu i s power;

“First, v y raising the l ours of labor at lead to the point where thev are in every other New England state; and, secondly, by reducing the taxation on manufacturing plants which is now much in excess of that in high taxed E;>gJand and in the southern states... The effective wav, in our judgmeu • •\ould be to take off all taxes on machinery, without increasing on t ie real estate used for monufac \ - ring purposes ” This is modest, is it not? Fiist make the laborer work more hours for the same or less pay khan he s receiving now. Second reduce the taxes on the manufacturer’s machinery. The r suit would be in both cases to increase the burden placed upon labor. If the manufacturers are excused from paying their taxeb the state will lack revenue, and the deficit will be met by taxing in a higher degree the;property of those who labor. How do the men of Massachusetts who voted for “McKinLy a< d Prosp:rity” like the outlook?.. Will they be cajoled oi browom en into voting for the republican candidates again? Surely he lovers of the “object 1< sson” are being taught in a raostjpraeqcaJ manner, and there is little doubt that they will profit by the experience,