Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT.

Call For Democratic Congressional ‘Convention, 10th District. To The Democracy Of The 10th Congressional District: The Democratic Congressional Convention for said district will assemble at the Monon Opera House, Monon, Indiana, at 1 o’clock p. m. on JYEDNESDAY, TULY 26th, 1900, for the purpose of nominating a candidate fcr Congress to be voted for at the November election 1900, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the convention. The basis of representation to said convention shall be one dele* gate for each 200 and one delegate for each fraction of 100 or more votes cast for Hon. Samuel M. Ralston for Secretary of State in 1898. Under this apportionment the several counties in the district are entitled to the following delegate representation in the convention: Benton, 6; Jasper, 6 Lake, 15; LaPorte, 22; Newton, 4; Porter, 9; Tippecanoe, 21; Warren, 4; White, 11. Total number of delegates, 98. Necessary to a choice 50. Edwin J. Forrest, Chm. Jas. W. Schooler, Sec.