Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — CONVENTION THURSDAY. [ARTICLE]

CONVENTION THURSDAY.

Primaries to Select Delegates Will, Be Held In the Various Precincts To-day. The democratic county convention will be held in Rensselaer next Thursday, and it behooves the party to turn out to the primaries- so-day and select a good set of delegates and alternates, men who will take an interest in the selection of a good county ticket and will manifest this interest by attending the convention and seeing that such a ticket is nominated. The official call for the convention appears on second page of to-day’s Democrat, where the purposes of the convention are set forth. There is no good reason why JaSper county should not elect several democratic officers next fall, and a great many reasons why it should do so. The spirit of graft, greed and corruption has so permeated the leaders of the opposition party that republicans everywhere are turning to the democrats as their only hope, of relief, and our party locally as well as nationally must nominate men for office of known integrity, who will not be found wanting in this emergency. •vWe have lots of good timber in Jasper county to make up a ticket with, and while we do not believe that democrats have tfoat craving for office that possesses our opponents, some of our best qualified democrats must be drafted in if necessary to make up a" ticket that is bound to be a winner next NqVember. Again, we say, stir up your 'democratic neighbor or republican neighbor who has become disgusted with the way things are going and tell them that the only way to better the conditions is to assist in making up the ticket. Partisan politics should not cut so much figure in our local government at least, and all should bear in mind that too long a lease of power to one party breeds a system of corruption that can only be remedied by turning the reins over to its opponents.