Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING. [ARTICLE]

CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING.

At the meeting of the Democratic County Central Committee last Monday the following deleSates were selected to represent asper county at the district meeting to be held at Lafayette next Thursday: E. P. Honan and U. M. Baughman of Rensselaer; Frank Welsh of Jordan; James A. Washburn of Remington; George O. Stembel of Wheatfield; Wm. Hersh man of Walker; Nejmiah Littlefield of Fair Oaks; and C. L. Carr of Newton. The delegates so selected were instructed to choose their own alternates in the event that it should be impossible for any of them to attend. In the matter of the reorganization of county central committee, the following gentlemen were chosen for committeemen from the various precincts, to serve until their succes-ors are elected: Hanging Grove Joseph Stewart Gillam John P. Ryan Walker Thomas Callaghan Barkley, East John Kimble Barkley, West J. bn W. Norman Marion, No. 1... Lee E. Glazebrook Marion, No. 2 C. F. Stackhouse Marion, No. 3 Henry Eigleabacb Marion, No. 4 E. P. Honan Jordan John Bill Newton C 1.. Carr Keener J. W. Pinkston Kankakee T. F. Malonev W’heattield George O. Stembel Carpenter, South ...Wm. Locke t arpenter. East J. A. Washburn Carpenter, West Daniel T. O'Connor Mi1r0y............. W T Smith Union, North N. Littlefield Union, South. S A. Brusnahan The matter of selecting a county Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer was deferred to such time ns the newly elected committee may choose to meet and make selection, the old officers, of course, holding over until such time. The Northern Indiana oil and gas company of Francisville, capital SIO,OOO, was incorporated last Monday. The directors are John Bend, J. A. Engle, Alfred Whitaker, Charles Brown, Harry W. Bledsoe and W. R. Jones. The Rensselaer Republican editor poses as a better judge of a naval hero than Admiral Dewey. We have no doubt most of his readers will continue to take the judgement of Dewey in preference to that of Bro. Marshall. Especially when Dewey’s judgment is backed by the greatest men in both houses of congress.—Lake County News. President Roosevelt again gives evidence of his leaning toward that element in politics which is always detrimental to the welfare of the public. In giving the postmaster gener-al-ship to Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin, a practical politician of not very savory reputation in national and Wisconsin politics, he did not increase public confidence in his vehement civil service declarations. Now his tender and the acceptance of the treasury portfolio by Leslie M: Shaw, governor of lowa, who is notorious for the part he took in shielding the railroads from taxation in that state, so much So that the republicans themselves refused to renominate him, is not calculated to cause many bursts

of patriotical adulation from republican newspapers, and some of the democrats who have pretended to see so much to be commended in this new acquisition to the greatest republic on earth will probably see where they have made a very serious mistake in their premature slobbering over his greatness. These appointments of the advisory members of the administration come very early to vouchsafe much good for anybody except the camp-follow-ers of the worst element in American politics.