Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis dt Murray's Store. Notice To Advertisers. All notices of a business character, including wants, for sale, to rent, lost, etc., will be published in The Democrat at the rate of one cent per word for each insertion. No advertisingwill be accepted for less than 10 cents. Cards of thanks will be published for 86 cents and resolutions of condolence for fl.oo. _ For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Democratic Conventions. County Convention, Rensselaer, June 2. State Convention, Indianapolis, June 6. National Convention, Kansas City, July 4. Call for Democratic County Nominating Convention. The delegatee selected by the precinct meetings throughout the county, will meet in Rensselaer. Ind., on SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1000, 1:30 p. m., to select delegates and alternates to the State Convention, the Congressional Convention, the Senatorial and Judicial Conventions, and to the Representative Convention, and nominate candidates for the following offices to be voted for at the general election in November, 1000: County Recorder, County Treasurer County Sheriff, County Coroner. County Surveyor, County Assessor, County Commissioner, Second District, County Commissioner, Third District, Three members of the Cousty Council at large, also County Councilmen from the Ist, 2d, 8d and 4th Councilmanic Districts. N. S. Bates, Chairman. C. D. Nowelb, Sect’yTownship Conventions. GILLAM TOWNSHIP. Notice is hereby given, that the Democrats of Gillam township will meet in mass convention at the Ceater schoolhouse, on SATURDAY. MAY 96, 1000, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a full Township ticket, consisting of the following officers: Trustee, Assessor. Advisory Board, Justices, Constables and Road Supervisors. F. M. Wagoner, James Culp, Chairman. Secretary.

Even strikes are expanding this year. There are 50,000 lepers in the new Hanna-McKinley possessions, the Philippines. Republican representative convention No. 2 will be held at Hammond, June 7. The official call for the democratic state convention was issued last week. Jasper county is entitled to eight delegates to this convention. If Carroll county had had a large wheat crop it would have been because McKinley and Landis were running things, but being a failure they do no talking. See? —Delphi Times. It has been nearly thirty years since any president has been re elected while he was in the White House. The presidency would seem to be a disadvantage rather than an advantage to a candidate. A consular report says that the Krupp armor process is neither secret nor patented. Yet it was because of this alleged secrecy that the republicans have persisted in paying enormous prices to the steel factories. The Sultan of Sulu is crying out against the tariff which has raised prices three or four times in his dominions. Some good republican should inform him that I the foreign exporter pays the tax. It might console him. The exposure of the Standard Oil deal to sell the Danish Wesfr Indies to the United States for ten percent, of the price, has killed the scheme in spite of the 2b senators whom the Company declared stood ready to do its bidding. Chicago has been figuring on questions of comparative finance and has discovered that she derives more income from dog licenses than she does from her street railways. Yet her streets are made dangerous and hideous by the long trains of care that run through them. 1