People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — The Republican Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Republican Convention.

The earliest and largest county convention ever held by the republicans of Jasper county convened at the opera house in Rensselaer last Monday at 2 p. m., and resulted in the naming of the following ticket to be voted for at the election next third of November: Recorder, R. B. Porter of Marion. Treasurer, J. C. Gwin of Ranging Grove. Sheriff, Nate Reed of Carpenter. Coroner, T. P. Wright of Marion. Surveyor, John E. Alter of Marion. Assessor, J. R. Phillips, Hanging Grove. Commissioners First District. Abraham Halleck, Keener. Commissioners Third District, Fred Waymire, Jordan. U might be remarked by some that the choice made for commissioners was open to criticism. One of the nomineeshaving but recently settled in the county, and the other being a young man with a rather unsuccessful business record. But taken as a whole the ticket is probably a strong one.