Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — CALL TO DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

CALL TO DEMOCRATS.

The democrats of the Tenth Congressional District will meet in delegate convention in the Jackson Club Rooms in LaFayette, at 11 o’clock a. m., on THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1902, for the purpose of selecting a member of the Democratic State Central Committee to represent said district for the ensuing two years. The basis of representation, fixed by the State Committee, will lie one delegate for each 200, or fraction over 100, of the vote cast for the Hon. John W. Kern for Governor in 1900, which will entitle the several counties in said district to the following number of votes in said convention: Benton, 8; Jasper, 8; Lake, 19: LaPorte, 28; Newton, 6; Portej, 9; Tippecanoe, 23; Warren, 5; White, 12. Total number of votes 118. Necessary to a choice 60 or any fractional vote in excess of 59. The delegates from the several counties shall be selected at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Chairman for each coun-

ty.

EEWIN J. FORREST,

District Chairman

Call for Meeting of the Democratic Central Committee. The Democratic County Central Committee for Jasper county, is hereby requested to meet at Honan’s law office, in Rensselaer, Ind., on MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1901, at one o’clock p. m., for the purpose of naming eight delegates to the District Convention to beheld at Lafayette, Ind., on Jan. 2, 1902. A full attendance is desired, as the matter of reorganizing the Central Committee will be considered at that time. Respectfully, N. S. Bates, Chairman C. D. Now elk, Sec.

O. A. Marsh has been appointed U. S. pension agent at Indianapolis, by President Roosevelt. Civil action against Daniel P. Bolds. ex-Treasurer of Adamd Co., to collect ?4,(XX) alleged to be due the»couuty, has begun. The tctal vote of Ohio, Massachusetts and lowa, on which the Press Publishing Bureau of Detroit conducted through the newspapers a “guessing contest.” is 1,554,114. Among the number being talked ’of for the supreme judgeship to take Judge Baker’s place, are Judge Gillett of Porter county, and Judge Palmer of Monticello. Appellate Judge U. Z. Wiley is also after the position, it is understood, but it is hoped that an abler man will be selected for the place. It is rumored that Editor Dunghill of the ~B rook Ripper” will be obliged to face a suit fpr damages for a recent idiotic attack upon a reputable citizen of Morocco through the columns of the “Ripper.” We guess that Dunghill wins out, as it will take but a few moments for both the court and iury to arrive at the conclusion long held by the public, that Dunghill is non compos mentis, and therefore not responsible for his idiotic utterances.

In these “strenuous” times over the republican nomination for the circuit judgeship we are astonished that no one seems to have thought of “Honest Abe” for the {dace! Now Abe is a lawyer— at east his name is published in the bar docket as such—and think of what an opportunity the judgeship would give him for knocking the stuffing out of the Jasper County Telephone Co., and Tom Sayler, besides “clearing” the judgement docket of the Jasper circuit court of some score or more of judgements now standing there unsatisfied against Abraham Halleck!