Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION.

Notice To the Democratic Voters of Jasper County. The Democratic voters of Jasper county will meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, March 29,1902, at 2 o’clock p. m., and select delegates to the County Convention and delegates to the Judicial convention. Each voting precinct will be entitled to one delegate to the Judicial convention. The delegates for the county convention will meet in Rensselaer on Saturday, April 12. 1902, at 1:30 o’clock p m. and select 8 delegates and alternate delegates to the State convention; delegates and alternate delegates to the Congressional convention and to the Legislative convention; and nominate candidates to be voted for at the general election to be held in November. l‘.H)2. as follows, to-wit: County Auditor, County Treasurer, County Coroner, County Surveyor, Count} Commissioner for the Ist, 2d, and 3d Commissioners' Districts; County Councilman for the Ist, 2d, 3d and Ith Councilmanic Districts. and three County Councilmen nt large Each precinct will be entitled to the following representation in the County Convention: Hanging Grove. .. 5 Delegate*. Gillum 8 Walker 12 Barkley oast 7 “ “ west 7 " Marion Ist .9 “ 2d 9 “ " B<l 10 " 4th 10 Jordan 11 “ Newton 7 " Keener 4 “ Kankakee 7 “ Wheatfield. 9 “ Carpenter south 7 •• “ east 8 •• “ west 8 Milroy 4 " Union north 8 " " south..., 8 “ By order of the County Central Committee. E. P. Honan, Chairman. U. M. Baughman, Secy. Six per cent interest on $6,000, the anount in round numbers of the claim for improving the streets about the public square, amounts to $35 per month. If paid at the next session of Abe’s court the interest would amount to about S2OO Why. then, was the council asked to appropriate $6,300 for this improvement when the amount would be—if paid at next session of Abe’s court—l6,154.25? Perhaps, though, Abe intends to “continue” the claim until the full amount of the appropriation is eaten up in interest. 1

“HAfter a stormy convention in which the entire Hamilton county delegation bolted, C. B. Landis was nominated for the fourth time for congressman, at Kokomo, Thursday.

They have a form of amusement over at Morocco that does not prevail to any great extent in other towns of Newton county. Every Monday morning the good housewives of the hamlet race desperately to see which will first finish the week’s washing, and their enthusiastic husbands set on the fence and root for’ em like it was a football game.

It must be amusing to people who are at all cognizant with the facts to hear Marshall rant, rave and throw invectives at the “Newton county seat gang.’’ No worse “county seat gang” can be found in the whole state than right here in Jasper, and Marshall always “endorses” every act of political skullduggery of the aforesaid “gang.”

The announcement of John F. Pettit of Walker tp., aa a candidate for county commissioner from “Honest Abe’s” district has appeared in the Remington Press, a republican paper, for the past two weeks. “Hinkey-Dink” Robertson of the Wheatfield windjabber can depend upon what he sees in The Democrat as being correct. A little more time spent in investigating the truth of its utterance and in conducting a newspaper in such a manner that the postoffice department would not find it necessary to get after him might result in saving the backers of this Halleck organ considerable humiliation.

And now the supreme court has held the minimum wage rate for unskilled labor on public work no good. It holds that where a laborer contracts to work for any price, no matter how low that price may be, he can collect only the contract price. The law under which the case was brought prohibited cities or other corporations or contractors from making contracts for unskilled labor upon public work at a less rate per ‘hour than that fixed by this statute. It was a little sop thrown to labor by the republican legislature, ami like all their acts for the laboring man’s benefit (?) played right into the hands of the large contractors and capitalists. The silly twaddle of Marshall in trying to inject the Newton county seat trouble into the republican Judicial convention muddle is not worth a passing notice. The circuit judge can neither befriend or injure Kentland, and so far as that office is concerned it could not make one iota of difference whether he comes from Rensselaer, Morocco or Kentland. Only the densely ignorant can be misled by such rot as this. Admit the truth, that it was the intention to select the delegates to the judicial convention by precincts until a note of alarm was sent over from Remington by one of the machine’s henchmen that Cummings was almost sure to get two and perhaps three delegates from Carpenter tp. Then the “sure thing,” disfranchising plan was adopted.