Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1859 — JASPER COUNTY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The Republican Central Committee, at a meeting held in Rensselaer, June 30, adopted the following programme fora Conven.tion to nominate candidates for the offices of Clerk, Recorder, Auditor, and two county Commissioners, to be elected at the next October Election, to-wit: The working Committees in the several Townships will call together, on Thursday, August 11, at 1 o’clock P. M., at the usual place of holding elections in their respective Townships, all voters pledged to support the Republican ticket, when the persons present will select from their own number, one Inspector, Judge and Clerk, and will then vote by ballot for the several candidates. When the voting is completed, and the votes canvassed, the several boards will seal up their several returns and place them in custody of their respective inspectors, who .will meet at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Saturday August 13, at 1 o’clock P. M. and will then organize themselves into a board of canvassers to select, from such returns,the proper candidates.for such offices; the person !jJY ia£ Ja plurality of votes for any office to be the candidate ’uch office. In case of a tie between two or more canuldates, the canvassers shall determine their respective claims by ballot among themselves. Upon motion it was resolved that the following named gentlemen be appointed Committee of Vigilance in their respective Towships:

Hanging Grove, John L. Robinson, W. W. Russell, J. M. Guinn, J. B. Chambers, Wm. E. Moore, Samuel Scott, J. W. Phillips. GILLAM. John Querry, Tho’s Antrim, Elias Faris, Sam’l McCullough, M. E. Davison, H. Ray born, Isaiah Mitchell. WALKER. Lorenzo Tinkham. BARKLEY. G. H. Brown, J. McCurtain, W. K. Parkison, G. W. Nichole. J. Casad, A. s hepherd, Henry Henkle. MARIO*. A. Thompson, N. Hopkins, A. Rowen, F. M. Grant, ■ C. C. Thornton, G. Burk, G. Kessler, Wm. Shortridge, T. Burroughs, Jenkins Cox, H. C. Bruce, W. C, Pierce. JORDAN. T. Lamborn, Wesly Downing, J. McCaslin, J. N. Timmons, W. Snodgrass, J. L- DeWitt. IROQUOIS. J. S. Andrews, S. H. Benjamin, J. H. McCullough, M. S. Mead, Aaron Lyons. NEWTON. Rial Benjamin, E. Sayers, Isaac Sayler, H. Sherman, G. R. ThorntonJACKSON. C. Frankenberger, Tho. Harris, Wm.-Buchanan, Samuel Brandon, J. Pontsler. BEEVER. Silas Johnston, John Smart, John Ade, John Murphy, Wm. Graves. WASHINGTON. E. C. West, E. Bridgeman, H. Morse, G. M. Harrington, Wm. Harriett. LAKE. James Hall, Wade, KANKAKEE. J. P. Petro, W. Graves. KEENER. R. P. Sheldon, Wm. Comer, B. Harrington, WHEATFIELD. Joseph Garris, Sylvester Jones, Upon motion it was resolved that the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Rensselaer Gazette, and that the Secretary be instructed to furnish the Chairman of the Vigilance Committee in each Township with a copy of the paper containing said proceedings. It will devolve upon these Committees to see that every Republican voter, and every other voter willing to support the Republican nominees, is at the polls upon that dny, that he may assist by his vote, and influence, to nominate the best men for these offices, that there is in the party. Let us have a good turnout, that we may have a general expression of opinion. By order of the Committee.

E. WRIGHT,

Chairman.

J. M. Stackhouse, Secr'y.