Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1904 — Democratic County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic County Convention.

The Democrats of Jasper county are hereby notified that the county convention for the nomination of candidates for the various county offices, to be voted for at the November election, 1904, will be held nt the east court r oom, in the court house at Rensselaer, Ind., on a SATURDAY, MAY 28,1904, at 2 o’clock p. m. There will be nominated at said convention the following officers: Clerk of the circuit court, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, surveyor, coroner and one commissioner for the Ist district. The basis of representation at this convention will be one delegate for each ten votes, or fraction over five votes cast for the Hon. Albert Schoonover for Secretary of State in 1902. Upon said basis the various precincts will be entitled to the following number of delegates: Hanging Grove 4 Gillain 5 Walker 12 Barkley. East 6 Barkley, West 7 Marion Precinct, No. 1 8 “ " “2 g “““ 3 8 Jordan . 8 ■lewton 6 Keener 4 Kankakee 5 Wheatfield 10 Carpenter, South 5 " East 8 " West ........ ...... 7 Mi1r0y.................... 4 Union, South 7 “ North .■ 6 At said convention there will be chosen delegates to the state, corn gressional, judicial, senatorial and representative conventions. Respectfully, U. M. Baughman, Ch. Dem. Cen. Com. N. Littlefield, Sec’y. The republican senatQ/ftl convention will be held June 6, at Reynolds. Fowler Leader: Tom McCoy, like, Charles Mauzy, hangs on to bis office like a ’possum to a gum stump. But Mr. Brown has gone west. Z. F. Little, the well known Goodland merchant, is a candidate for the republican nomination for joint-representative of Newton and Benton counties. Too much politics doesn’t go well with the banking business, as evidenced by the McCoy bank failure and the showing made of their backing broken-down politicians. Now that C. M. Blue has tendered his resignation as trustee of Marion township, we trust he will make his settlement with the commissioners for poor relief for the township for the past year, which was due several months ago. All the other trustees settled in March. Tom Taggart is down in New York this week telling the “re-or-ganiz„ers” how he delivered the state to Parker, the Wall street candidate. He says, “the Indiana delegates will stand by Parker first, last, and all the time.’’ Well, how about the v voters? They usually have something to say after the politicians get through. Assignee Chapman in his complaint against W. F. Pence, et al, says that the debts of A. & T. J. McCoy will aggregate more than $420,000! For years, it seems, they have been “splurging” and shouting prosperity on the money of their more economical, but too confiding neighbors. It was indeed a “puddin’ ” for them, and they are to be pardoned for imagining that everyone else was prospering mightily.

If the McCoys eaoh take advantage of the S6OO exemption law, which the indications are they will, and thus retain SI,OOO to $1,500 worth of personal property, the wives retain the fine residences worth about SIO,OOO more, and their interest in all the real estate, it is not likely they will become objects of charity for some time to come, even though some of those who trusted their hard-earned dollars in the McCoy bank should become such*