Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — Republican Call. [ARTICLE]

Republican Call.

Rensselaer, Ind., January 15., 1902. To the Republicans of the Tenth Congressional District: The Republicans of the several counties composing the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, will meet on Saturday, the 15th day of February, 1902, at such times and places as the county committee may designate for the purpose of selecting delegates and alternate delegates to the district convention to be held at the City of Monticello, in White county, Indiana, on Wednesday, February 19, 1902, at 1:30 p. m., to nominate a candidate to represent the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana in Congress. The representation shall be one delegate and one alternate delegate for each 200 votes and for each additional fraction of more than too votes cast for Hon. Hugh H. Hanna for Presidential Elector at the election held in November, 1900. Each county to be entitled to the aggregate number of Delegates and Alternate Delegates as follows: Benton county 10 Jasper county IO Lake county .27 Laporte county 24 Newton county * 9 Porter county .. 14 Tippecanoe county 32 Warren county 'n White county 13 By order of the District Committee. C. E. Mills, Thomas J. McCoy, Secretary. Chairman. The democratic caucus committee on resolutions, with Representative Richardson at its head, has met again and accomplished nothing.

Congressman Brick, of Indiana, says that he once won a case by reading James Witcomb Riley’s poem, “Back From a Two Years’ Sentence,” to the jury.

Mr. Bryan devotes nearly a column of his newspaper to drawing a moral from the defeat of Mr. Perry Belmont. Well, Mr. Bryan ought to be an authority on defeats.

Germany is one of the most extensive customers the American farmers have for their surplus pork. Naturally a republican president is courteous to the German Emperor.

Every one will respect the dignity which prompted Mrs. Harrison to request the withdrawal of all claims for a pension which had been presented to Congress in her behalf.

A Frenchman charged with having committed a murder at Nice recently proved an alibi showing that at the time the murder was committed he was burglarizing a hotel in France.

The New York and European Steamship Company claims that with its new tarbine steamships it will be able to reduce the passage from New York to Liverpool by at least two days.

Captain Henry Stewart New, editor of the Indianapolis Journal and member of the National Committee, is the latest rumored candidate for a Cabinet position. He is slated to succeed Secretary Hitchcock.

It now transpires that the Kaiser’s courtesy to the United States in the persons of Mr. Roosevelt and his daughter, is due to the straightforward, frank diplomacy of the Presi dent. Mr. Schaub, of Steel Trust fame, is said to be indignant at the notoriety given to his heavy play at Monte Carlo. Mr. Schaub should have patronized home industries. Wall Street would have been glad to accommodate him. For |lB 50 the commercial traveler in Switzerland can purchase a monthly ticket entitling him to travel as often as he pleases over all the railroads in the country. Berlin street railways have a similar plan, by which a small sum gives unlimited transportation on all lines. It is significant of the foresight of Tamanny’s politics that one of its rep resentatives, Mr. George B. McClellan, should have been the first man to advocate sound money in a caucus of the democratic members of the House of Representatives. When the party returns to sound money Tamanny will claim the credit.

Undoubtedly Mr. Roosevelt desires the nomination of his party at the next national convention. It is hardly to be supposed that he would care to go down in history as what John Tyler’s coachman called “a sort of second-hand President.” At the same time the President is too honorable a man to do anything unworthy in order to secure it.

During the recent illness of Senator Quay the Kickapoo Indians called a meeting of the chiefs and the medicine men who were instructed to propitiate the Great Spirit in order that He might not take away “Big Chief Quay.” As the Senator has recovered the medicine men will doubtless claim all the credit but, being uncivilized medicine men, they will not send the senators bill.

It is a somewhat remarkable fact that in the heart of Chicago there lives a squatter. Captain Streeter by name, who defies the law and asserts that he is in a state outside of the jurisdiction of Illinois. Many times have the police attempted to take the Captain captive but Lis effective use of a Winchester rifle has always prevented. He has fortified his house and defends it with powder and shot whenever necessary.