Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION.

Notice is hereby given to the Democratic voters of Jasper County, to meet at their usual voting places on Saturday, April 16, 1910, at 1:30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the County Convention to be held in the East Court Room at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Thursday, April 21, 1910, at 1:30 o’clock p. m., to nominate candidates for the following County offices, to-wit: Clerk of the Circuit Court, County Auditor, County Treasurer, County Sheriff, County Assessor, County Surveyor, County Coroner, Commissioner First District, Commissioner Second District, One County Councilman from the First, one from the Second, one from the Third and one from the Fourth Councilmanic Districts, Three County Councilmen-At-Large. and to elect eight delegates to the State Convention to be held at Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday, April 27 and 28, 1910, as follows: Two delegates from each Commissioners’ district and two delegates-at-large. You are further notified that delegates will be selected at the County Convention for the various District Conventions, time and place of which will be designated in later calls. The basis of representation to said county convention is one delegate and one alternate for each ten votes or fraction over five votes cast for the Hon. 1 homas R. Marshall for Governor in 1908, as follows: Barkley, East 7 Delegates Barkley, West 7 Delegates Carpenter, East .... 9 Delegates Carpenter, West.... 6 Delegates Carpenter, South . . 7 Delegates Gillam 6 Delegatee Hanging Grove .... 3 Delegates Jordan 9 Delegates Keener 4 Delegates Marlon, No. 111 Delegates Marlon, No. 2 ....14 Delegates Marlon, No. 37 Delegates Marlon, No. 4 .... 9 Delegates Milroy 3 Delegates Newton 8 Delegates Union, North 7 Delegates Union, South 8 Delegates Walker 8 Delegates Wheatfield 9 Delegates N. LITTLEFIELD, Chm. JUDSON J. HUNT, Sec.

The Jefferson Day banquet at Indianapolis on April 13 promises to be the biggest thing of the kind ever held in the state.

The executive committee of the Democratic Editorial association met in Indianapolis last week and determined to hold the summer meeting of the association at Frencty Lick Springs on June 23, 24 and 25.

Press dispatches state that the resolutions adopted by the republican congressional convention at Lafayette were prepared in Washington and O. K’d. by President Taft. This is centralization with a vengeance.

It is said that if the wealth of the public domain itj Alaska could bi divided it would give SBO,OOO to every voter in the United States. And it was this wealth that the Morgan and Guggenheim syndicate were in a fair way to get under a complaisant Republican administration.

The Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks is home, but how does he find his machine? It has been temporarily taken off the track, to be sure, but is it being kept in condition for use when the occasion arises? These are things that Mr. Beveridge and his mechanicians will want to know about.

As we predicted, the majority of the new committee on rules is made up of friends of Cannon and he will continue to be the whole thing. The only way to crush Cannonism was to remove Cannon, as the Democrats proposed and could have done if the “insurgent” Republicans had not had an attack of “cold feet.”

Has anyone ever heard of Senator Beveridge saying anything against the stupendous extravagance practiced by his party in the national government? Has he ever raised his voice against the ship subsidy grab? Has he opposed the Wall street central bank scheme? Has he ever said it was wrong for the government to give one man power to tax another man for his own private profit? If so, when and where?

Chairman Lee of the Republican state committee has been “sounding” leading men of the party as to their views on the platform which must be adopted next week. Mr. Lee, in answer to his written request, has received many expressions of opinion, but he declines to make them public. However, we have the authority of a leading Republican paper for the statement that “there is a wide variance of opinion” in these expressions. And it may well be. As political matters go, it would be hard ter find two Indiana Republicans who can agree on the questions now uppermost in the public mind.

a long time it has been generally understood that Robert G. Tucker, Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, could have the Republican nomination for secretary of state if he would take it. But Mr. Tucker, who has an intirhate knowledge of political conditions in Indiana, has announced decisively that he will not be a candidate. Since he has made this statement there has been a good deal of skirmishing by the Republican managers for a man willirfg to head their ticket. Several persons who have been asked to take the nomination have refused to consider it. And none can blame them.