Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1902 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

The Democratic city covention will be held April 2nd at the Court house. —o— Another week aud the agony will be over. The county convention, which promises to be a rousing one, will be held in Rensselaer next Tuesday. The precinct convention will be held next Saturday. The Republican representative convention for Like and Jasper counties will be held in Hammond, Wednesday, April 2nd. Lake county is entitled to 27 delegates and Jasper county to 10. The county candidates are now trying to rival Prince Henry in their efforts to cover so many miles of country Jn so minutes. Luckily for them, they are saved from the dire dyspeptic consequences of a banquet at each stopping. x —o — The city convention will be held on Wednesday evening of next week. Every Republican in the oit.y should make it a point to attend. By all taking part in the convention there will be no danger that the wrong man will bel nominated for any position. The convention for nominating council men will be held Friday evening of next week. In the call of the Lake county chair man fbr the joint representative convention for Lake and Jasper counties we notice that their delegates to the county covention are to select delegates to the representative convention, or in identically the same manner that Jasper is doing in the judicial convention. The fact of the matter is that this is the universal way of selecting delegates in many counties, notwithstanding the statements of the Kentland schemers to the contrary. —o— Chairman Little of the Newton county Republican central committee has issued a notice that Newton county has withdrawn from any participation in the Judicial convention as originally jointly called to be held at Brook April 10th, for the reason that they are not pleased at the manner Jasper county proposes to select its own delegates to said convention. This action will certainly not tend to strengthen Newton county’s candidate in this county and we shall be surprised if it does not act as a boomerang in his own county. —Remington Press.