Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS.

Notice is hereby given to the Democratic voters of Milroy township. Jasper county, Indiana, to meet at tbe regular place in said township for holding conventions, on SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1802, for the purpose of n< mlnating a township ticket to be voted for at the November election; said ticket will consist of three candidates for members of Township Advisory Board, two Road Supervisors, two Justices of the Peace and two Constables. W. T. Smith. Chairman.

“Harbor” Knotts is the republican candidate for mayor of Hammond. *

‘The republican state convention will be held at Indianapolis next Wednesday and Thursday.

Chairman Sammons of Newton county, and Chairman Honan of Jasper, have agreed to hold the judicial convention at Brook, May 15.

District Chairman Simms of Lafayette, held a conference with the various county chairmen of the district here last Saturday and it was decided to hold the congressional convention at Monticello, on the f-aine day of the White county democratic convention, the date for which has not yet been set.

It is said that the state republican chairman endeavored to persuade the Jasper county politicians to change their method of selecting judicial delegates, but they refused. Chairman Goodrich says the choosing of delegates in an irregular way has caused tha republicans of the state a world of trouble. Goodhind Herald.

Press dispatches state that upon the trial of Maj. Waller of the marine corps, testimony was given by Waller, corroborated by other witnesses, that Gen. Jacob H. Smith instructed him to kill and burn; that the more he killed and burned the better pleased GenSmith would be; that it was no time to take prisoners, and that when Maj. Waller asked Gen. Smith to define the age limit for killing, he replied: “Everything over ten.” And this is the sort of “war” carried on in the Philip pines.

The Michigan City prison whitewashing investigation brought out the fact that there are twenty-sev-en insane convicts in the penitentiary at this time. Commenting on this the Indianapolis Sentinel says: “Twenty-seven insane convicts in the Indiana prison! Twen-ty-seven men, mind you, who have become insane since they were

put in that institution. They were not insane when they went there. That does not speak very loudly for the humane and sanitary treatment they have received. As a matter of course criminals ought to be punished, but is it really the proper thing to drive them mad?”

The , Jasper county politicians played a great joke on John D. Sink last Thursday. They went through the form of nominating Mr. Sink, giving him 12.2 votes. If the convention were a legal one it required thirty-eight delegates present, and nineteen and a fraction of a vote to nominate. They purposely failed to give Mr. Sink the required number and he is no more the nominee of the alleged convention than Mr. Graves. We see but little harm in the omission, however, as the nominee of that convention will not receive any consideration.

Recent disclosures in the Philippines Committee of the Senate have been a grave source of apprehension to the administration. Reports of tyrannical and brutal methods of dealing with the natives are multiplying and, as a logical sequence to republican imperialism, there comes by cable the news of the arrest of two Manila editors for lese majeste. According to the report of Major Gardiner, civil governor of Tabayas, those Filipinos who were once friendly to this country have grown to hate it because of the despotic treatment afforded them by the American soldiers and, in the view of the governor, continued military occupation will result in leaving this country without a friend in the islands, with the exception of those who have been appointed to government officers at munificient salaries.

Blue’s latest effusion reminds us something of the write-up he gave the pupils of a certain school he once taught over in Newton tp., in the register of the school, which, we believe, is kept for the purpose of the teacher making a report for his successor, giving tbe name, year’s work, general character, etc., of each pupil. This “write-up’’ was deliberately cut from the register during the early part of the campaign two years ago, it is alleged by an accomodating county official who thought it might not do the author any good in his career of a professional candidate for office. But he probably is not aware to this day that the matter contained therein had been copied and is still in existence. Not one profane word escaped our lips during Blue’s “visit” at The Democrat sanctum—the truth of which statement all the other occupants of the office will bear witness. Evidently he mistook the roaring in his head for the oaths he alleges were uttered.