Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1915 — G. O. P. CONVENTION CHICAGO, JUNE 7TH [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. CONVENTION CHICAGO, JUNE 7TH

Next President Wil! Be Named At Coliseum—Rept|Micans Man a Flying Start jm Campaign.

Washington, Dec. 14.—Chicago is the place and Wednesday, June 7, 1916, the time for the national republican convention. This was the decision of the national committee today at the close of the vote, which showed Chicago more than a two-to-one favorite over San Francisco, Cal., the runner-up in the voneest for the honor of entertaining the republican delegates. St. Louis, Mo., which had 'been heralded as the probable winner, finished a-poor third, only seven votes being cart for the Missouri city. The final vote on the choice for a convention city was: Chicago—3l. San Francisco—l 3. St. Louis—7. Philadelphia—2. Honolulu, which also sought the convention, did not get a vote. The republicans decided on June 1 for the date earlier in the day. This is just a week before the democratic national convention is to convene in St Louis. The G. O. P. chiefs plan for a fiying start in the campaign before the democrats have settled upon a candidate. The usual advantage said to lay in a later d'ate, so that the convention may not know what to expect of its opponent, was lacking in this case, in the minds of the republican committeemen, since/it is a foregone conclusion that President Wilson -wilt be renominated « in -St. Louis. A proposal to hold the convention later than June was defeated, 3*7 to 13. Advocates of an early convention argued that how was the time for the republican patry to take the offensive against its political enemies without regard to the ancient custom of allowing the party in power to meet first and announce its candidates and principles. It was urged that the party should not consider a defensive campaign, but should blaze the trail and give its story to the country first, without waiting to. see what he democrats intended to do.

William F. Pierce, who was born and IrrH in this until he went into the army, diedr last Friday every at 7 o’clock at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette. He had been in the hospital fbr the past eight weeks, suffering from a complication of diseases. He had resided in Lafayette since the close of the war and for a number of years had been employed at Purdue university, where he was held in high esteem. His funeral was held Sunday from the home of his aunt and family, with whom he had lived in West Lafayette. He 'was a member of the G. A. R. and I. O. O. F. His age was 70 years.