Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1906 — CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION.

Indian ai-oi.ih, Ind., March 12. 1906. To flic Democrats ol' Indiana and nil those who desire to 00-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 withe-tkpm. are iavited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall in the City of Indianapolis, Ind., on Thursday, June 7, 190(5, at ten o’clock a. m., for the purpose of adopting a platform for the Campaigu and the nomination of candidates for the following offices: Secretary of State Auditor of State. Treanuter of. State. Attorney-General. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. State Geologist. State Statistician. One Judgeo the Supreme-Court for First District. One Judge of the Supreme Court t\<r Fourth District. Two Jimpe? ol 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 oi

more than 100 votes cast for John W. Kern for Governor at the November election in 1904, Jasper county being entitled to the representation of seven delegates. The delegates from the respective counties composing the sev eral congressional districts will meet in the city of Indianapolis at 7:30 p. m., on Wednesday, June 6, 1906, at the following places: First Distrlot—State House, Room 48, first floor. Second District—State House, Room 11, first floor. Third District—State House, Room 12, first floor. Fourth District—State House. Room 83, second 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 He use. Room 85. second floor. Tenth District —State House, Room 120, third floor. Eleventh District—State House, Room 29, first, floor. Twelfth District State House, Room 15. jftratfloor. Thirteenth District—State House. Room 112, third floor, • At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected: One Vice-Presidentof 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 Resolution^—Room No. 77, Grand Hotel. Committee on Credentials—Room No. 26. Graud Hotel. Committee on Permanent Organization— Room 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 Democratic paper of the county, of the time, hours and place of holding such election for delegates. All railroads will allow reduced rates to and from Indianapolis for the convention. _. _ W. H. O’Brien Cn’m. Joe Reiley, Sec’y.

Those people who had nothing in the McCoy sheepskin bank are again to be corigralutated—they do not have to lose their time and dig up more money to attend the trial as witnesses. There is a good prospect th it the democratic State convention will not only declare for a 2 cent railway fare, the turning of interest received on public funds into the county treasury, but will hlso declare for a high license law Such a measure will rio doubt be popular, not only with the people at, large but with the better class of liquor dealers, for, it is thought, a high license law will drive a large number of the doggeries and saloons in the smaller tow ns out of business It is reported that the state will show up the extravagant expenditures of money by the McCoys. Wonder if anything will be said about the free special trains, “sweet singers of Israel”, oxroasts, etc., of “old Mac” to help out the republicans during campaign years? Will the over-drafts of the republican county central committee and republican politicians and hangers-on be shown up? It’s dollars to doughnuts that not a whisper of this will be heard.

Those people who lost money in the McCoy bank failure are doubly unfortunate, for besides losing their money in the failure over two years ago they were about all —nearly 500 of them—compelled to go to Monticello this week as witnesses against the McCoys, at least they were summoned as such —and no doubt the average expense to each in actual cash was $4 to 15, or a total of $2,000 to $2,500 To the farmer who was compelled to leave his work at this busy season the loss of time is another big item. The people here look upon this aotion in summoning all these depositors by the state as unnecessary; they think if convicted at all it oould just as well have beep done by twenty or thirty witnesses, as by five bun: dred.

Commissioner Garfield’s report on the Standard Oil Company reads as if it might ✓have been made by a howling Kansas populist, rather than a high official in the g. o. p. And the President’s message, which accompanied the report when sent to Congress, sounds somewhat like some of the old time speeches of a Jerry Simpson as a Tillman. Are oor republican friends —or some of them, rather—at last getting their eyes open to the democratic troths that have been sounded in their ears forlo! these many years?