Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION

To the Democrat* of the State of Indiana, and All Others Who Desire to Affiliate With Them: By virtue ot the primary election law, enacted by the sixty-ninth general assembly of the state of Indiana and approved by the governor. Meh. 8, 1915, (Acts 1915, page 359, chapter ' 105), and the amendatory act enacted by the seventieth general assembly of said state, and approved by the governor. Meh. 8, 1917, (page 354, chapter 117), and In pursuance of the “Rules for the government and regulation of the Democratic party in Indiana’’ adopted by the Democratic state central committee of Indiana Meh. 27, 1920, the Democratic party of the state of Indiana and all those who desire to affiliate and co-operate with such party, are hereby notified to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson hall In the said city Of Indianapolis, Ind., on the 19th and days of May, 1920, for the purpose of adopting a platform, selecting presidential electors, contingent electors, delegates and alternate delegates to the Democratic national convention and for nominating candidates for United States senator and governor. If no nomination is made at the primary election to be held. May 4, 1920, and for nominating the following state officers, to-wit: Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Reporter Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. One Judge of the Supreme Court for the Fifth District. One Judge for the Appellate Court for the First District. One Judge of the Appellate Court for the Second District. The convention will be

of 1,260 delegates apportioned among the several counties of the state. Necessary to choice, 631. Tenth district delegates—Benton 5, Jasper 5, Lake 31, Newton 5, Porter 6, Tippecanoe 16, Warren 3, White 9. (The delegates from the respective counties composing the several congressional districts will meet Wednesday, May 19, 1920, at 7 p. jp., at the following places in the state house In the city ot Indianapolis, Ind.: First district —State house, room 240, second floor. Second district —State house, room 319, third floor. Third district —State hoyee, room 332, third floor. Fourth district —State house, room 227, second floor. Fifth district —State house, room 431, fourth floor. Sixth district —State house, room 329, senate chamber. Seventh district —State house, roonx 308, house of representatives. Eighth district —State house, room 206, second floor. Ninth district —State house, room 303, third floor. Tenth district —State house, room 202, second floor. Eleventh district —State house, room 418, fourth floor. Twelfth district —State house, room 317, third floor. Thirteenth district —State house, room 401, fourth floor. At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected, viz.: One member of the committee on rules and permanent organization. One member of the committee on credentials. One member of the committee on resolutions. One vice-president of the convention. One presidential elector and one contingent elector. Two delegates to the national convention. Two alternate delegates to the national convention. The above named committees will meet immediately after the adjournment of district meetings. Notice of the place of such committee meet-> Ings will be given $t the respective district meetings. The convention will meet on Thursday, May 20, 1920, at 9 o’clock

a. m., at Tomlinson hall, said city of Indianapolis, Ind., to receive the reports of said committees for the adoption of a platform,. the selection of delegates-at-large to the national convention, the selection of presidential electors and contingent electors and the nomination of candates. • ' Witness my hand and seal thia 27th day of March, 1920. BENJAMIN BOSSE, Chairman. Attest: SAMUEL L. TRABUE, Secretary.

Domestic Fourteen striking I. W. W. pickets and one policeman were shot during a sharp battle near the Neversweat mine, on the Anaconda road, at Butte, Mont. All are In hospitals. Physicians believe two of the I. W. W. will die. ** * i Lack of class room and instructors has forced the University of Chicago to take steps to limit the attendance In the undergraduate colleges, starting next autumn. • • • Any search and seizure by federal prohibition agents that would amount to trespass under constitutional law is illegal. Federal Judge Clarence W. Sessions ruled at Marquette, Mich. • • • Gov. Henry J. Allen at Topeka, Kan., issued a proclamation setting aside May 1 as American day in Kansas and requesting that parades and patriotic demonstrations be held in every town in the state on that day. * * • Mrs John Purkhardt and her daughter, Lilly, wealthy Martin’s Ferry (O.) residents, were found slain In their home. Their throats had been cut and the daughter’s head crushed. • • • The final divorce decree in the case of Mrs. Cathlene Neilson Vanderbilt versus Reginald C. Vanderbilt has been entered in superior court at Newport, R. I. • * * John Grunau, head of the Chicago Yardmen’s association, was jailed at Joliet by government agents.