Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — Two Conventions. [ARTICLE]

Two Conventions.

ROSS FOR CONGRESSMAN. Representative-Yeoman. The Democratic conventions * were held at Ellis’ Opera House! in this city last Saturday. 1 The attendance was not as large ; as had been expected. The fact! that the convention was held on I Saturday no doubt accounted in a measure for the small attendance from some of the counties as many merchants will not leave their business on that day of the ■ week. Business men are gener- ‘ ally appointed as delegates to the ) district convention and Saturday, is always their busy day. The convention was called to! order by district chairman, Edwin J. Forrest. Wm. Blackstock of Lafayette, was elected chairman and E. Swaim, of the Hammond News as secretary and all the democratic editors of the district as assistant secretaries The various committees made their reports which were adopted. The report of the committee on resolutions will be published in full in our next issue. The roll of counties were called for candidates and Lake county presented the name of : Judge Ibach; Newton, Patrick Keefe; Porter, A. J. Bozarth and | Tippecanoe, the name of John I Ross. The first ballot which ■ was informal resulted as follows: Ibach. 52 Keefe, 47 Bozarth, 39 Ross, 81 McCabe, 2

The third baliot resulted in the nomination of Ross. The ballats were as follows: Ist 2nd 3rd Ibach - 32 22 15 Keefe 69 S 3 84 Bozarth 25 20 Ross 94 95 121

Before the result of the last ballot was announced, Mr. Keefe in a neat little speech which was seconded by Mr. Bozarth, moved to make the nomination of Mr. Ross unanimous which was unanimously adopted. Mr. Ross, the nominee, is a grain merchant of Lafayette, and a farmer. He is the first thorough business man that has ever been nominated for

cohgress by any party in this district. Mr. Ross was for manyyears a farmer in Benton county. After the adjournment of the congressional convention, the convention to nominate a Joint-Rep-resentative was called to order by Editor Swaim of the Hammond News who on motion was made the chairman, with J. C. Reynolds of this city, as secretary. Only one name was presented to the convention, that of David H. Yeoman of Rensselaer, who was nominated by acclamation. Both of the candidates arc honest, capable men and will truly represent the interests of the people of their respective districts if elected.