Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1906 — CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 12, 1906. To the Democrat* of Indiana and all those who desire to co-operate with them: In accordance with an order of the Democratic State Central Committee, the Democrats of Indiana, and all who desire to co-operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall in the City of Indianapolis, Ind., on Thursday, June 7,1906, at ten o’clock a. m., for the purS3se of adopting a platform for the ampaign and the nomination of candidates for the following offices: Secretary of State. t _ Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. ——- State Geologist. State Statistician. One Judge of the Supreme Court for First District. One Judge of the Supreme Court for Fourth District. Two Judges of the Appellate Court for First District. Three Judges of the Appellate Court for Second District. The convention will be composed of 1,371 delegates, apportioned among the several counties of the State on a basis of one delegate for every 200 votos and for each additional fraction of more than 100 votes cast for John W. Kern for Governor at the November election in 1904, Jasper county being entitled to the representation df seven delegates. The delegates from the respective counties composing the several congressional districts will meet in the city of Indianapolis at 7:90 p m., on Wednesday, June 6, 1906, at the following places: First District State Mouse, Room 45, first floor. Second District - State Mouse, Room 11, first floor. Third District State House, Room 12, first floor. Fourth District—State Mouse,Room &l, secoml floor Fifth District—State House, Room 91, third floor. Sixth District State House, Room 93, third floor. Seventh District Criminal Court Room, Court House. Eighth District—State House. Room 102, third floor. Ninth District -State House, Room K 5, second floor. Tenth Distr2ct State House, Room 120, third floor. Eleventh District—State House, Room 29, first floor. Twelfth District State House, Room 15, first floor. Thirteenth District—State House, Room 112, third floor. At each of such meetings the following ofiicers and members of committees will be selected: One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. One member of Committee on Order of Business and Permanent Organization. One member of Committee on Credentials One member of Committee on Resolutions' Tickets to the convention will be distributed by the District Chairman at these district meetings. The members of the committees thus chosen will meet at the following places at 8 o’clock p. m., of the same day: Committee on Resolutions -Room No. 77, Grand Hotel. Committee on Credentials—Room No. 26, Grand Hotel. Committee on Perinauent OrganizationBoom No. 3, Grand Hotel. The County Committees of the several counties wherein delegates have not been selected, will make the necessary arrangements for the

selection of delegates, giving at least two weeks notice by publication in the DemooratioJ paper of the county, of the time, hours and plaoe of holding such election for delegates. All railroads will allow reduced rates to and from Indianapolis for the convention. W. H. O’Brien, Ch’m. Joe Reiley, Sec’y. CALL FOR PRECINCT MEETING. The Democrats of the various precincts of Jasper county are requested to meet in their various precincts on SATURDAY, MARCH 24,1906, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of selecting a precinot committeeman for each precinct, who will be a member of the County Central Committee for the next ensuing two years. U. M. Baughman, N. Littlefield, Chairman. Secretary.

The old saying that “the only good Indian is a dead one” appears to haye been amended by “Moro.” The telegraph wires between Tucson, Ariz., and the U. S, Capitol, will now have a chance to cool off. Likewise Mr. Beveridge.

By employing a woman on the force, San Fransico has taken a long step in the direction of breaking up the practice of telling one’s private troubles to a policeman.

The Senate will refuse to investigate the contributions by banks to political campaign committees, holding that no crime has been committed, but hinting directly that the banks must “not do it again.”

The Democrat who supports the President is labeled as a “White House Democrat.” The designation for the Republican senator who opposes the President has not yet been framed into polite English.

Of course there may be a coal strike, but the average citizen isn’t worrying, as he thinks President Roosevelt will take fifteen Jminutes off some time between now and the first of the month and settle the dispute.

The Fowler Republican, in a half-column article of criticism of Gov. Hanly’s course in prosecuting ex-Auditor of State David E. Sherrick, says, among other bitter things: ‘’One could scarcely expect much from a man who permitted his mother to die beneath the sheltering roof of an alms house.”

A. J. Moynahan, editor of the Journal-Gazette, of Fort Wayne, has notfied the board of county commissioners that they must demand from County Treasurer Funk, at the next quarterly settlement, an account of the interest he has received on the public money since he took the office. Moynahan is the editor of the Democratic organ, and Funk is the first Republican that ever held the office. Funk’e friends say the attack on him is because of politics, but Moynahan says he intends to bring suit against former treasurers of Democratic faith to force a return of the interest they received on public money.