Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Delegates “Not in it.” [ARTICLE]

Delegates “Not in it.”

The Goodland Journal (republican) says of the republican congressional district meeting held at Hammond last week: Thos. Gray, H. T. Griggs and the editor of this paper attended the Hammond district convention as delegates. • * The facts are that only a comparatively few of the delegates present attended the convention. It was given out that the august body would deliberate at 1:30 p. m. Many of the deleSations then scattered for an early inner, and while they were absent a few of the “big vigs,” (as Tony Weller would describe it,) got together and unanimously endorsed McCoy. One delegate who strolled into the hall in search of a restaurant, remained and represented Newton county. Several of the counties were not represented at all. Why this “snap” move was made nobody seems to know, as McCoy was the only candidate. There was no soreness about the matter as it changed no results, but the brains that devised such rank discourtesy to men who had gone a considerable distance at their own expense to represent their counties, is of a very poor quality, to say nothing of the egotism that assumed the representation for those it could not and did not represent. But McCoy was unanimously re-elected and that settles it. '