Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1915 — LESS DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

LESS DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION

Number in 1916 Will Be I,l6B—Republicans Making Ready For the Next Campaign. Although there were 81,946 more votes cast for the republican candidate for secretary of state last fall than there were for presidential elector two years before, the number of delegates to the state convention will be 271 less next year. L. W. Henley, secretary of the state organization, has just issued a statement showing the number of delegates from each county in the district. Jasper county will have 8 delegates, Newton will have 6, Benton 7, White 10, Pulaski 6, Lake 44 and Tippecanoe 21. The delegates will be chosen, at the primary convention next March and will adopt a platform and provided the primary has not given a majority to one of. the candidates for governor and United States senator will nominate these candidates. The other state candidates will be nominated at the primaries. •