Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

TOWNSHIP CONVENTIONS.

Notice is hereby given to the Democratic voters of Milroy township, Jasper county, Indiana, to meet at the regular place in said township for holding conventions, on SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1903, for tie putpcse of nominating a township ticket to be voted for at the November election : said ticket will consist of three candidates for memoers of Township Advisory Board, two Road Supervisors, two Justices of the Peace and two Constables.

W. T. SMITH.

Chairman.

Dr. R. M. Delzell of Reynolds, has been nominated by the Prohis for congressman from this district.

The White county democratic convention and the Tenth district democratic congressional convention will be held at Monticello, Saturday, May, 31.

The article in The Democrat last week regarding the vote for prosecuting attorney at the rump republican convention at Brook on the 10th, through mistake was not credited. It was taken from the Newton jCounty Enterprise, the republican organ of that county.

The republican party platform at Indianapolis denounces trusts formed to control prices and stifle competition. Who ever heard of a trust formed for any other purposes. This proposition reminds one of the suggestion once made by a horse-thief to repeal all laws against theft, and rely solely on the honesty of thieves to prevent stealing. But the republican party is so closely connected with the doctrine of robbery, commonly called “protection,’’ that no remedy for trusts can be hoped for from that source.

It is announced that the labor organizations of many cities are clamoring for an investigation of the beef trust. In view of the fact that over 7,000,000 people, including a great majority of the laboring men, voted in 1900 for a continuation of the trust regime and as many more trusts as the barons saw fit to organize, it would seem to us that it is -impertenent for thorp to attempt to enquire into the private affairs of the patriotic and philanthropic gentlemen, who have advanced the price of “the necessaries of life from onethird to one-half without granting any propertionate advance in the pay of the laboring men who are compelled to buy trust products.

The republican alate convention nominated Dan Storms of Lafayette, for Secretary of State; David Sherrick of Noblesville, for State Auditor; Charles W. Miller of Goshen, for Attorney-General; R. A. Brown of Indianapolis, for

Supreme Court| clerk; F. A. Cotten of Indianapolis, for Supt. Public Instruction; N. U. Hill of Bloomington, for Treasurer; W. A. Blatchley of Terre Haute, for State Geologist; B. F. Johnson of Fowler, for Statistician, and J. H. Gillett of Hammond, for Judge of the Supreme court. Ex Judge Wiley, well known in this circuit, was renominated for the appellate court.

The contractor on the Jefferson and Grant tp., stone roads in Newton county has thrown up the job after completing a part of the roads in the former tp , and now the county officials are going after his bondsmen, the U. S. Fidelity & Guarantee Co., of Baltimore, Md. We trust that it will not turn out the same as Jasper county’s “ bond” in “Honest Abe’s’’ Keener tp., gravel roads—that there was none ever filed or in existence. We don’t believe the Newton county commissioners do business that way, and neither have they paid out all the money on the few' miles of road thus far completed. They observe the statutes over in Newton, and 20 percent, of the engineer’s estimate of w'ork completed has been kept back, as the law especially provides. «•