Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1906 — MANAGERS CONSULT [ARTICLE]

MANAGERS CONSULT

State Republican Committee Meets to Do Some Poiitical Business. CAMPAIGN POLICY MAPED OCT Rules fbr Primaries Agreed on Roosevelt and Hanly Indorsed—- -- Curious Case of Confession. Indianapolis, Sept. 7.—The Republican state committee, meeting at the Claypool hotel, finally adopted rules providing for the primaries to choose delegates to nominating conventions, and' discussed the situation in each of the thirteen congressional districts. At this meeting also State Chairman Goodrich announced that Will H. Hays, the chairman of Sullivan coilnty, will be the chairman of the speakers’ bureau, to be opened Sept. 11. Roosevelt and Hanly Indorsed. The indorsement of the acts of the last congress and of President Roosevelt, as well as the emphatic indorsement of Governor Hanly’s policies, were decided on finally as campaign bases. It was stated that the tariff 'question was not discussed at all at the meeting. Probably there will be little tariff talk in Indiana during the coming campaign—that Is, talk by the Republicans. Rules for the Primaries. The rules regarding the primaries provide that in all counties that contain a city or town of more than 5,000 inhabitants, the delegates to nominating conventions shall be selected in the townships, wards and precincts by primaries. Wherever the state primary law covers the primaries, they are to be held under that law, of course. Wherever the state law does not obtain. as is true with respect to the smaller cities, the primaries are to be held under the rules of the state committee. Provisions of the State Rules. Under the state rules in counties whose largest town is less than 5,000, the county committee may elect to have the delegates to nominating conventions chosen by mass convention. the ward, in the city, and the township, in the country, being the unit of the mass convention. These rules were tentatively adopted at the May meeting of the committee with the understanding that the final adoption would be made at this Thirty-Six Charges Against H im. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 7.—The trial of George C.. Benham, former manager and secretary of the Muncie" Garment company, which concern he is said to have wrecked by his peculations, is set for Oct. 8. There are tbirty-slx charges against him. She Has the Boss Tomato. Milton. Ind., Sept. 7. —Mrs. George Borders, of this place, has raised sonye large tomatoes in her garden. One weighed three and a half pounds and showed no blemish. Doing Well with His Hogs. Greenfield, Ind., 'Sept. 7.—At a public sale near this city Ora Snider sold sixty hogs for sl.fioo, an average’ of $27 a head. They were registered Po-land-China stock. See the boys’ new school suite at unparalleled values. Chicago Bargain Store.