Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION.

Notice is hereby given to the Democratic r voters of Jasper County, to meet at their -usual voting places on Saturday, April 16, 1510, 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,

,(i County Sheriff, .County Assessor, f 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. Thomas 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 Delegates Hanging Grove .... 3 Delegates Jordan ... 9 Delegates Keener ........... 4 Delegates Kankakee ......... 6 Delegates Marion, No. 1 ......11 Delegates Marion, No. 2 . . ..14 Delegates Marion, No. 3. .... 7 Delegates Marion, 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 countv commissioners of Lake county granted 42 liquor licenses at their last meeting, so there is no fear of a drouth of liquid refreshments in Lake the coming summer. & ■ To a man up a tree it looks like the Congressional Convention at Lafayette endorsed Congressman Crumpacker because he voted for the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and then turned around and endorsed Senator Beveridge because he voted against it. Consistency. th<>u art a jewel.-—Low-ell Tribune, (Rep.) - In the "wet" and “dry" elections in Illinois Tuesday the wets made a net gain of six Count les., they gaining nine districts and I<ising three. Out of. a total of 261 citie>. villages and towns voting 142 voted "wet." while 119 voted “dry." ()f this number 50 were "dry” ami went “wet," while about 25 were “wet" and went “dry." Practically all the larger cities and towns went "wet," nd the gains made by the "wet" adherents is taken as a revulsion against absolute prohibition. sav the latter.

• The democrats fared pretty well in Tuesday’s elections, making great gains almost -everywhere. In Chicago they gained the city council by a working majority. The result is significant as foreshadowing the ■probable Outcome of next fall’s elections and the probable passing of all the city machinery into the hands of the Democrats. I ntii Tuesday the Republicans had the mayor and fprty-one aidermen. as against twenty-nine Democratic members.. The new council will stand: Democrats, thirty-nine: Republicans, thirtyone: Independent, 1. The latter will vote’ with the Republicans, but the Democrats have enough margin to put through anV legislation. They carried twenty-one of the thirty-five wards. Previously they had but seventeen wards in the Democratic column.

The republican state convention nominated Otis E. Gulley, of Danville, fdr secretary of state ; John Reed, of Muncie l for auditor; Edward V. Fitzpatrick, of Portland for clerk of the supreme .court; W. & Blatchley for Geologist ; J L. Peetz, of Kokomo for statistician; Oscar Montgomery, of Seymour and Robert M. Miller. of Franklin for judges of the supreme’ court; Ward H. Watson, of Charlestown, Cassius C. Hadley, of Indianapolis, Daniel W. Comstock, of Richmond, Joseph M. Rabb, of Williamport and Harn* B. Tuthill, of Michigan City for Appellate court judges; Jonce Monyhan, of Orleans for treasurer; Finley P. Mount, of Crawfordsville for at-torney-general; and Samuel C

Ferrell, of Shelbyville for Supt. of public instruction. Judge Robey, who has sat on the Appellate bench for several years, was defeated for nominaton to the ; supreme court bench by Robert M. Miller of Indianapolis.