Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — Progressives Will Hold County Convention April 4. [ARTICLE]

Progressives Will Hold County Convention April 4.

The official call for the progressive county convention appears on another page' of today's Democrat. The primaries for the selection of delewin be held on Saturday, March 2S, and the county convention proper on Saturday, April 4. The progressives, having no county newspaper organ, are paying regular advertising rates for all notices of their party that appear in The Democrat, and they have done so in the past. Such being the case, this, paper does not believe that it has any legal right so refuse to publish these notices, even were it so inclined. The committee says, however, that the Rensselaer Republican refused to publish their call for a county convention, even though proffered pay for such publication.

Jasper County Republican Attends >. Real State Convention. < frank J. Babcock, of Carpenter tp., has moved to Rensselaer and occupies the Mrs. Jessie Roberts property 1 on Division street. Mr. Babcock, who had been in rather poor health for some time, returned last week from a six weeks’ stay at the Fletcher Sanatorium, at Indianapolis. He was greatly benefited by the treatment there and gained nearly twenty-five pounds ip weight during the fdx weeks he was at the saha-

torium. Through the curtesy of 'his cousin, A. D. Babcock, of Goodland, Frank was given a ticket and attended the democratic state convention Igst week, and he thought it the greatest meeting he ever attended. Frank is a republican himself and a member of the county council, and- he had no idea there were so many democrats in the country as ho saw at the state convention.