People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Jasper County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Convention.

Voters of the People’s Party will meet in convention at their usual places of meeting in the several townships of Jasper County, Inch, Saturday, Aug. 29, 1896, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the district convention to be held at Monon, Sept. 3, 1896. Under the call. Jasper County is entitled to twenty-four delegates, being one at large from each township, and one for each fifty or major fraction of fifty votes cast for Dr. Robinson for Sec. of State in 1894. By this apportionment the different townships are entitled to delegates as follows: Hanging Grove, 1 Gillam 2 Walker \ Barkley , 2 Marion 3 Jordan, 3 Newton, 1 Keener, .... 2 Kankakee, 1 Carpenter 3 Milroy 1 Union, 3 Wheatfield 1 The district convention at Monon will nominate a candidate for congress for the tenth district and transact any other business which way properly come before the me£tiug. Let every voter see to it, that he is properly represented at these meetings. ' J- A. McFarland, Chairman Co. Cen. Co. L. Strong, Sec.