Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION.

The Democratic Joint-Repre-sentative convention for the counties of Lake and Jasper will be held in Huehn opera house, at Hammond, SATURDAY, JULY 26, at 2 o’clock p. m.j for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Joint-Representative of the counties of Lake and Jasper. E. P. Honan, Chm. Jasper Co. Floyd M. Pierce, Chm. Lake Co. The Republican newspapers of Newton county, without exception, refuse to accept the nomination of C. W. Hanley, of Jasper for judge. The proposed new paper at Goodland will, if it materializes, support Hanley.—Oxford Tribune. The “boiler-plate’ prosperity items about Indiana are furnished free gratis to the republican papers of the state. They a.e edited and sugar-coated to suit the occasion by the republici n press bureau. Remember th s when reading anything of the sort and take it with a liberal grain of allowance. When Newton county gets r?ady to buy the electric light fixtures for that new court house, v.e would suggest that they empk y our “Honest Abe’’ to negotiate vi h the supply men. According to the story recently told by the firm that furnished the fixtures for Jasper county’s court house, Abe is an expert in this line. The republicans are taking great credit to themselves because of the President’s decision in t»he case of General Jacob H. Smith, whom Mr. Roosevelt has ordered to be immediately retired. In to doing, however, they seem to lose sight of the fact that had it not been for publicity given to the facts connected with the Waller massacre and the Smith orders, by the democratic members of the Senate, General Smith would never have been courtmartialed nor would the attention of the President ever have been calltd to bis conduct. In reality, the action of the President is a vindication of those democrats whom the republicans have been charging with maligning the army. If the exposure of such conduct as that of which Gent ral Smith and Major Waller weie gu Ity, constitutes an attack on the army, then the democrats were guilty of such an attack, but if, as the maintains, their conduct was "a disgrace to the army,” then the democrats who endeavored to secure their removal were the real friends of the army, rather than those republicans who attempted primarily to conceal, and subsequently to defend their acts.