Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1902 — Republican Call tor Judicial Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican Call tor Judicial Convention.

The delegates selected by Jasper and Newfton 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 gfeneral election in Noveifiber, 1902, the republican candidate for Judge 1 of tne 30th judicial circuit and the republican candidate for Prosecuting Attorney fpr the 30th judicial circuit. The representation shall be ohe delegate andpjne alternate delegate for each 100 votes, and for each additional fraction of more than fifty f Votes cast for Hon. Hugh Hanna for presidential elector at the ejection held in November, 1900. Each county to be entitled to the following representation: Jasper county, 21 delegates; Newton county, 17 delegated Z. F. Little,' Chairman Newton County. 4 C. C. Warner, Chairman Jasper County.

has been introduced in the Ohio legislature to allow Sunday baseballi L/ *————■■— A woman suffrage measure which passed the lowa Senate was rejected by the lower house. - —————P—OIfTE way to remove sectionalism is to rfemove political advantages that damage other sections. This is what the Crum packer resolution proposes to do. Excited protests at the mere pro posal of an inquiry on the lines of the Crumpackpr resolution recalls the motto, 4, A guilty conscience need no accuser.” The purchase of bonds in the open market by tjie Treasury Department has Kept the price high and the Secretary has ordered the purchases stopped. Prince Henry believes in “natures sweejj restorer.” As soon as he was away from the fetes of America he slept forty eight hours at a stretch, while recovering from the fatigue of his trip. A sinole American cqm.pany an« nounces that ic will buy at once 19000 steel cars and 260 locomotives to accommodate its increased traffic. No bounds are set on the industrial expansion of there public.

Mr. Cleveland says he is not at all troubled about MK Bryan’s comments. The “traitor, ingrate, an<f political nonentity” evidently thinks that it is better ,to be a “has beep’} than a “neviejf was.?’ 1 ii ■ i mil ii■ i ■ - Mr. Bryan wants to know what would happen if the farmers refused to pay taxes to support a bounty. What usually happens when persons “not entirely supported by charity” refuse to pay taxes? Another sword has been subscribed for Major Jenkins and President RopsevOlt will present it at the Charleston Exposition—tb© Tillmans to the conttkry notwithstanding. The Tillman sword cost $65 but tbe new one is’to cost SSOO. “Noblesse . oblige” is a motto too little recognized in America. If every citizen would reoognlze his suffrage as an obligation to be discharged in the light of his intelligence and station and would vote at the primaries as well as at the polls there would be less complaint ofborrupt politics. Henry Watterson thinks that the Philippine issue is the only one s>r the democrats to use next lime. Others are equally as strong for tariff reform, and Mr. Bryan nails his flag to the popular election of Senators. At the present rate there will be as many issues as fissures in the democratic party.

In the debate on the postal appropriation bill one member asked what a “nixie” clerk was, as several were provided for in the bill. Mr. Loud, of California, chairman of the committee where the bill originated,, explained that “nixie” when applied to a clerk, means one whose business it is tp decipher addresses practically illegible.

From the siege ot Troy to the occupation of Pekin the historian has not had to vary his comment on the “rapine of licentious soldiery.” There is a different commentary for the United States’ < ccupation of her new possessions. Witness Havana with 21,25? deaths the year before our troops went there, which; rate had decreased to 8,163 under the first year of our regime and has now dropped so 5,000,