Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — CO. CONVENTION ON APRIL 21. [ARTICLE]

CO. CONVENTION ON APRIL 21.

So Decided By Democratic Executive Committee Saturday

PRIMARIES SATURDAY, 16TH.

Prospects for Democratic Success In Jasper County Were Never Better Than At Present, and a Ticket of Its Very Best Timber Should Be Nominated —Turn Out to the Primaries and Help to Do This.

At the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Democratic County Central Committee Saturday afternoon it was decided to hold the county convention on Thursday, April 21, arid the primaries to select delegates thereto on the Saturday previous, the 16th. The official calls for the primaries and convention appear on another page. The executive committee meeting was an enthusiastic one, and from all parts of the county represented came cheering words that augur well for’ democratic success in Jasper county this fall, strange as this may seem to some.

Hundreds more republican taxpayers are “seeing the light’’ at last and they think “a change” Wouldn’t hurt anything even if it didn’t correct all the evils in the county at one fell stroke, and they believe it might result in much and lasting good. As a consequence they will do this fall what they ought to have done long ago, and vote to put a few democrats ( in the court house. Such being the case, it behooves the democrats of Jasper county to this year put up an even better ticket than usual, and to this end we hope the democrats will arouse themselves all over the county, talk up who the most desirable candidates are and select their best men for delegates to carry out their wishes, so that there may be no mistake made in naming a ticket that will prove a winner this fall.

If every democrat will but put his shoulder to the democratic band wagon we can, with the help of the better class of republicans who would welcome a change, elect a ticket this fall that will prove to the people that their confidence has not been misplaced ; a ticket that we can truthfully say to our republican friends: “Come to us, ye that ar? weary and heavy laden and we will do thee good.” The opposition in this county has had too long a lease at public office and a “cleaning up” can but inure to the benefit of the taxpayers. It can be done, too, if the democrats will arouse themselves to the opportunity that now confronts them. Let the slogan be that “public office is a public trust,” rather than a private graft, which idea seems to predominate too rnany of the politicians of the opposing faith.