People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Democratic Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Convention.

The Jasper county democratic convention met in the court house last Saturday and put the following ticket in nomination: Treasurer; Amnion Beasley, Remington, Recorder; Judson J. Hunt, Rensselaer, r Sheriff, Frank Fisher, Kankakee township. Surveyor, Elwood Spriggs, Keener township. Coroner, Dr. Pothouse, Remington. Commissioner, Ist District, Wm, Cooper, Union township. Commissioner, 2nd- District, John Stillman, Remington. The following delegates were elected, uninstructed, to the, state convention: Presley E. Davis, Wheatfield, N. S, Bates, Rensselaer. W. M. Hoover Rensselaer. A. K. Yeoman, Pleasant Ridge. A Beasley, Remington. D. W. Shields, Rensselaer. The delegation is divided on the silver question, there being at least two silver men who will not vote the ticket if the national convention does not adoyt a 16 to 1 plank. There are no bolters however among the goldbug contingent. Mr. Stillman, who is named as their candidate for commissioner of the second district is a leading populist, and it is understood that he will decline the honor, if he has not already done so. The following delegates were chosen to go to the congressional convention: Ceo. O. ■ Steurbel, I. E. French, D. W. Shields, C. E, Haslaeher, Geo, Morehead and C. D. Nowels. In the matter of calling the congressional convention to elect delegates to the national convention, the chairman is obliged to defer the announcement for another week as arrangements for a speaker are not yet concluded. The call will be issued next week.