Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1902 — Republican Call tor Judicial Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican Call tor Judicial Convention.

The delegates selected by Jasper and Newton counties to the Judicial Convention will meet at Brook, Newton county, Indiana, on the 10th day of April, 1902, at 1:30 o’clock p. m. and nominate to be voted for at the general election in November, 1902, the republican candidate for Judge of the 30th judicial circuit and the republican candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the 30th judicial circuit. The representation shall be one delegate and one alternate delegate for each 100 votes, and for each additional fraction of more than fifty votes cast for Hon. Hugh Hanna for presidential elector at the election held in November, 1900. Each county to be entitled to the following representation: Jasper county, 21 delegates; Newton county, 17 delegates. Z. F. Little, Chairman Newton County. C. C. Warner, Chairman Jasper County.

Yes, the Spanish War was an expensive item. But the consumers of whiskey and tobacco footed the bulk of the bill—some $168,000,000. Lo, the poor Indian is to have another name to obivate the present difficulty in. distinguishing between the inhabitants of America and India. Scientists have decided that the Red Man shall be known as an “Amerind.” Chicago health authorities have found that the “beautiful snow” has a grander missien than providing inspiration for poets and recreation for children. Careful epxeriments show that it is a marvelous purifier of the atmosphere through which it falls. Hon. William D. Foulke, United States Civil Service Commissioner, says that American ideals will never suffer as a result of responsibilities based on our new part in the world’s work brought on by the legitimate policy of expansion. Charles Francis Adams, the his torian, says that if General Lee bad not agreed that there should be no guerilla warfare after the surrender at Appomatox, America would have been confronted with conditions much worse than those now obtained in the Philippines and in South Africa. The main result of the tirade of Mr. Wheeler of Kentucky against American courtesy to foreign guests and friends. is that the democrats are annoyed and the republicans are pleased. The democrats are wondering if they can retain “the good will of the German people” in the next election.

A lament comes from France that America is outstripping that country of silk manufacturers. The reasons the French give for the American supremacy is larger capital, superior machinery and more modern methods, coupled with a better governmental relation to labor. Owing to the great improvements in sanitation the average length of human life has been increased in cities from 31 to 38 years in the last decade in the United States. There has not been so much change in the country districts, as the conditions of life have not been so greatly improved, nor were they in such serious need of improvement. The democrats who are forcing an d evading the issue by making a plea for Cuban annexation, forget that there are other obligations that must first be fulfilled. The great necessity is to help the Cubans attain that for which they have been struggling for many years to deal fairly with them in the matter of trade. When we have accomplished our first duty there will be plenty of time to consider annexation. Secretary Long, in a Lincoln day speech at Boston, has given a sane utterance in regard to the Philippines and one that should appeal to all thinking Americans. He says the question is not one of a day, but of a whole generation; and that, when the ability of the Filipinos to administer self government is assumed, they alone should decide whether they will walk alone and independent “or hand in hand with us as Canada walks with England.” “It is gratifying to newspaper men to know that farmers are falling into the habit of trading exclusively with those who advertise,” says one of our exchanges. Business men who doubted it have later experimented, in many different ways, and had their eyes opened to the true cause of their waning business. “It is not only because advertising does bring and retain customers but because the farmers are most sincere friends of the country press and for this reason ignore the business houses that not only ask for trade but seem devoidjof any desire to see the home paper exist.”