People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

Official Call!

COUNTY CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE’S PARTY. To be Held in the Opera House, in RensNclaer, on Wednesday, Ittareh 281li, ISP I, at 1 p. m. The members of the People’s party of Jasper county, Indiana, who will be legal voters at the November election of 1894, are requested to meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, March 24, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing one delegate and one alternate delegate from each township or precinct to represent such township or precinct in the coming state convention. Also to elect one delegate and one alternate delegate, each to represent such such township or precinct in the coming congres sional convention, and to elect delegates to Ihe county nominating convention herein called. The number of such delegates, apportioned on the basis of one delegate-at-large for each voting precinct, and one delegate for each 5 votes, or major part thereof cast for James B. Weaver in 1892, is lor the several townships and precincts as follows: Hanging Grove 1 Gillam 8 Walker 5 Barkley East 5 Barkley West G Marion Son th 6 Marion East 4 Marion West 3 Jordan 12 Newton 2 Keener 3 Kankakee 1 Wheatfield 4 Carpenter South 2 Carpenter East 3 Carpenter West 7 Milroy.. 7 Union .... 16 The delegates so elected will meet in the opera house on Wednesday, March 28, 1894, at 1 o'clock p. m., to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. 6, 1894, as follows: . County qjerk. County auditor. County treasurer. County sheriff. County surveyor. County coroner. Commissioner, Ist district. Commissioner, 2nd district. Commissioner, 3rd district. By order of County Central Committee. L: L. Ponsler, Wm. D. Bringle, Cbm. Secy

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