Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — REPUBLICAN NOMINATING CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN NOMINATING CONVENTION.

At a meeting of the Republican Central Committee of Jasper county, held on the 9th inst., for the purpose of arranging a general programme of proceedings for the Township Conventions, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the various county offices to be filled next October, in accordance with the plan adopted in 1856, as ordered by the County Convention of June 19, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That all who are willing to unite in opposing the present Administration are requested to meet at the place of holding elections, in their-respective townships, on Thursday, 12th of August next, and select, from among their number, three persons, to constitute a Board of Elect'on, whose duty it shall be to receive the votes, count the same and seal the reiurns; and said officers shall meet at the Court House in Rensselaer on Saturday, August 14, at one o’clock P. M-, and shall then form a Board of Canvassers, open said returns -and count the votes, and the candidates having the highest number of votes shall be declared nominated: should any two candidates for any one office be found to have the highest, and a tie number of votes, said canvassers shall, by ballot among themselves, determine which of the two shall be the candidate for said office. Resolved, That the following persons be appointed Committees of Vigilance in their respective townships, to-wit: Marion —F. M. Grant, \Vm. Shortridge, Jesse Boys, Alf. Thompson, It L. Stanly, Geo. W. Burk, N. V. Snodgrass, Nathan Babcock, Alf. Guthridge, jr., Job English. Ha'ging Grove —John L. Robinson,Henry Banta, VVm. E. Moore, Harvy Phillips, VVm. Bussell, J. B. Chambers, John M. Gwin. Gillam —Thos. Autrim, Wm. Robinson, John Querry, Win. Fresham, Isaiah Mitchell, Win. Faria, Geoge Mason. Barkley —John Casad, G. W. Nichols, Geo. H. Brown, Henry Henkle, F. B. Jenkins, sJohn English. Newton —lsaac Saylor, Rob’t Mallutt, Geo. R. Thornton, Jared Benjamin, Henry ' O. Harris, Ephram Sayers. Jorden— Geo. VV. Snodgrass, Thos. Lamborn, John Alter, Sarn’l Babb, Wesley 1 Downing. Iroquois —John Andrews, M. S. Mead, C. R. Hough, J. H. McCullough, Morris ! Lyons, Walter Hawkins. , Jackson —Chas. Frankenburger, Thus. VV. Harris, Win. Brandon, Wm. Buchanan, Joshua Ponsler. Beaver —John Ade, John Brennisholtz,; Silas Johnson, John Murphy, John Smart, Mark Barrington. Washington —E. C. West, Wm. Harriett, J. VV. Dodson, John Whitaker, Ephram Bridgjeman, Aaron Mercer. Keener— R. P. Sheldon, VVm. Comer, Bronson VV. H arringt.on. Resolved, .That we recommend Saturday, the 7th of August, as the day, and Francis- I ville as the place, for holding the convention j for nominating a candidate lor Representa- : tive. By order of the Committee.

I. M. STACKHOUSE,

Sec’y Ceil. Com.