Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION.

Inmanaiulis, Ind., March 12, 1906. To the Democrat* of Indiana and all those who desire to 00-operute 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 purpose of adopting a platform for the Campaign and the nomination of candidates for the following offioes: Secretary of State Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. State Geologist. State Statistician. One Judge o the Supreme Court for First District. One Judge of the Shpreme Court fur Fourth District. Two Juoges of the Appellate Court for First Dißtriot. Three Judges of the Appellate Court for Seoond District. The convention will be composed of 1,371 delegates, appor. tioned among the several counties of the Btate on a basis of one delegate for every 200 votos and for each additional fraction of

more than 100 votes oast 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. t on Wednesday, June 6, 1906, at tbe following places: First District—State House, Room 45, 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 House. Room 85, secoud floor. Tenth District 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 officers 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 Credent i a I«- K oom No. 26, Grand Hotel. Committee on Permanent OrganizationRoom 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 tbe 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.

Democratic county convention one week from today. According to the Kansas Republican convention, Gov. Hoch is just a nice, lady-like kisser. Senator Clark is going to quit the Senate although he could easily afford the seat for another term, Come out to the -primaries today and select representative democrats as delegates to the county convention.

The democratic state convention to be held at Indianapolis on June 7 will be one of the greatest in the party's history. Tom Lawson s silence at this juncture, can be accounted for only on the ground that he is too full of joy for utterance. Booker Washington is advising his people to abandon expensive funerals, and spend their money for the living. The proper application of this advice is not limited to any race, color or previous condition of servitude. A story is going the rounds that Speaker Cannon has admitted that he oan only see a Republican majority of fifteen for tbe next Congress. And John Sharp Williams is sure he is straining his eyes at that.

Houston Post: The Washington Post alludes to Texas as being out of the corn belt. Our namesake must have been neglecting the Department of Agriculture reports. Texas is producing over 140,(XX),000 bushels of corn a year, son. If President Roosevelt keeps right at it until congress adjourns, the republican members who want to be re-elected will have nervous prostration in its worst form. He is knocking all sorts pf holes in the cardboard platforms on whioh they have been accustomed to “appeal to the people,”

There is going to be lota of disappointment over the result of tbe McCoy trials anyway, whether it ends in a verdict of guilt or acquittal. The penalty for embezzlement can not exceed three years in the penitentiary, while plain stealing—or embezzling—a pair of shoes or a sack of flour, instead of $300,000, would mean at least two to fourteen years in the “pen.”

Marion Bailey of Hendricks county is a candidate for the democratic nomination for State Auditor. Mr. Bailey is a native Hoosier and has served his party in various local offices with creditHe was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1900, and was county chairman of Hendrioks county for four years and has been a member of the county committee for eight years. He is a large land owner in Boone and Hendricks counties and is a successful stock breeder.

Tbe claim is made by some of Mr. Roosevelt’s admirers that be has accepted most of the Democratic doctrines except revision of the tariff. Of course it will be recalled that he once declared that while he was a free trader, he was a Republican first. That being the case, he is side-stepping on the revision question. If anything is plainly proved by this it is that, as Democratic principles are unquestionably popular thoughout the country, the only sure way to put them in operation is to turn the government over to the Democrats. In this way, and in this way only, can genuine reforms be assured.

Through the efforts of Bro. Roby of the Benton Review, the county commissioners have ordered the county attorney to demand 81,075.14 from ex-auditor James D. Smith, fees which it is alleged he wrongfully retained, and, on his failure to refund, to bring suit for the collection of same. Bro. Roby asked for a complete investigation of the county records, but the republican county council refused to make any appropriation therefor, Benton, in a way, has been about as rottbn as Jasper county, something that a surething election of one party in power for a long term of years always breeds.

There was a time when the cry, “the foreigner pays the tax,’’ fooled some voters iuto believing that Republican high protection was a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It was nonsense, otcourse, aud could not bear analysis. The Muncie Herald disposes of it in this neat way: “Bills are being introduced in congress providing for the remission of the tariff duties on structural iron and s'.eel and other materials necessary for the rebuilding of San Francisco. “We have all along been told by our Republican friends that ‘the foreigner pays the tax.’ “Why. in the very moment of their afftictiou, deprive the people of San Francisco of the great advantages of a high protective tariff? “Why not ask the foreigner to ‘pay the tax’ for the benefit of San Francisco?”