Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1917 — Next Republican State Convention. [ARTICLE]

Next Republican State Convention.

The next Indiana republican state convention will be one of the largest ever held by the party. The total of 341,005 votes rolled up by the republicans of Indiana last November was never exceeded but twice, and that wasTn 1904 when 368,229 votes wero counted for Roosevelt, and in 1908, when 348,993 votes were cast for the first Taft presidential elector. of 1916 there were 1168 delegates. In the republican state convention of 1918 there will be 1702 delegates, an -increase of 534. In the next state convention Jasper county’s representation will be 10 delegates, her vote in 1916 being 1995 votes.