Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The Democrats of the Tenth Congressional District will meet in delegate convention in Mouticello, on SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1902, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Congress in said District. The basis of representation will be one delegate for each two hundred or fraction over one hundred, of the voto cast for Hon. Allim Zollars for Presidential Elector in the 1900. The delegates from the several counties in the District shall be selected at the time and place, and in the manner prescribed by the Chairmen of the counties respectively. Dan W. Sims, District Chairman. The passing into republican hands of the Lafayette Journal has caused the democrats to start a new paper, The Lnfayette Democrat. Leroy Armstrong, one of Indiana's most gifted writers, is the editor.

Apropos of the Hnnna-Frye ship subsidy bill the last issue of Lloyd’s Register states that the Steel Trust is the largest owner of vessels iq the United States and the fifth largest owner in the world. It is not surprising the bill was passed by the Senate.

The democrats of Laporte say they will present the name of Lem Darrow, who was re-elected mayor of Laporte last week, to the Monticello convention as a candidate for cougress from the tenth district. Mayor Darrow is widely known and popular. Starke Comity Democrat.

With tlit* spirit of fairness (?) which has always characterized the republican press of Jasper county toward The Democrat editor at all times, not a word is said in their columns about the county having been compelled to refund those alleged •‘taxes’’ to us which these same newspapers raised such a hullahallo about a couple of years ago, when they came tothesupportof the notorious individual who unlawfully plaoed them on the tax-duplicate against us. This is another distance where silence is golden, we suppose, from their way of reasoning.

State Statistician Johnson’s bulletin announces the fact that the Indiana wheat crop for the year 11)02 will be a failure. This statement is verified by the different township reports contained in the May bullentin which has just gone to the printer. Fortyseven counties throughout the state show a loss of 445 points, while thirty-three counties show a gain of only 241 points. Eight counties show the same conditions as reported last month, while one —Benton county—reports uo wheat raised. The best wheat is found in the following counties as shown by the reports: Crawford, Gibaon, Jackson, Jennings, Laporte, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, Ripley, Union, Warren, Monroe ana Washington.