Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1904 — Democratic Mass Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Mass Convention.

The Democrats of Carpenter township will meet in mass convention at Remington, on SATURDAY JULY 23, 1904 at three o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating candidates for township offices to voted for at the November election. By order of Township Com. Ellis Jones, Chm. C. W. Harner, Sec.

The principal issue in the presidential campaign promises to be the candidates themselves. “Which will you have, Parker or Roosevelt?”

Owing to the tragic death of Patrick Keefe and J. B. Roberts of Kentland, the democratic convention in Newton county has been postponed from July 18, to August 1.

Samuel M. (“Golden Rule”) Jones of Ohio, is dead. The soubriquet of “Golden Rule Jones” grew out of his applioation of the biblical injunction to his business transactions. He was four .limes elected mayor of Toledo, despite the efforts of the republican machine to defeat him.

Lawrence Becker, democratic major-elect of Hammond, who was elected despite the big normal republican majority in that city, is quoted as saying of the nominations made by the national convention at St. Louis last week: “I think Indiana is going (50,000 Republicans this year. With our candidate a man of the Cleveland stripe, the Republicans will make their cry ‘Soup' houses and bullets,’ and the workingmen never will stop voting for Roosevelt.” Evidnetly Mr. Becker has not been thorougly reconstrusted.

The Chicago Chronicle hns at last thrown off the mask and uow oomes out openly as a republican paper. Loyal democrats have long charged the Chronicle with advocacy of republioan measures and principles, which it was always prompt in denying, and insisted on posing as a supporter of democratic principles. It now develops that the accusation of republicanism had a substantial basis. This gives Chicago four open advocates of plutocracy and the policies. of the trust party—the Tribune, Inter Ocean, Record-Herald and (jhronicle.