Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1902 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

The Democratic county convention will be held next Saturday. A meeting of the Democratic County chairmen of the 10th district will be held in Rensselaer next Saturday. —O'Newton will be about the last county in northwestern Indiana, and probably the State, in nominating a county ticket. All our neighboring counties have held their conventions, while ours is over two months in the futu re. —Kentland Enterprise.

The judicial convention will be held at Brook today and Mr. Hanley will be nominated for judge. Jasper county will send a solid delegation in structed for him. Three and possibly five townships in Newton county will send delegates. Lincoln township in which Rose Lawn is situated, will send a Hanley delegate. Beaver township, in which Morocco is located, will send two delegates, who will probably be Hanley men. Lake township has elected a delegate and Colfax and McClellan townsnips will also probably send delegates. The vote on prosecutor will be divided and it is uncertain where the nomination will go. Mr. Sink seems to be in the lead, however. A dispatch from Indianapolis says: Anyway the politicians figure now, the northern half of Indiana is going to name the lion’s share of the republican state ticket this year. The tenth district, with its unopposed candidates, is going to have, the largest representation. The twelfth is sure of Frank Roby, for appellate judge, and the thirteenth, according to every indication, has reason to feel certain of the nomination of Charlie Miller, of Goshen, for attorney-gen-eral, as he has been making a runaway race from the start. Dan Storms, of Lafayette, need not have gone to the trouble of renting head- > quarters at the Denison for the con vention as he has no opposition. However he is about the busiest candidate of the lot. He was here yesterday afternoon and he announced that during the week he had had heart-to-heart talks with over 500 delegates. The certain ity of Storm’s nomination has made it uphill fighting for Frank Doran, of LaPorte, candidate for auditor, and John Dyer, of Hammond, candidate for treasurer. But both these men according to reports received here are in position in spite of handicap to give a good account of themselves. There is a growing opinion that the men who beat them will be nominated. Doran has developed into a strong campaigner. The fact that he was able to carry LaPorte county when some of the democratic candidates were elected by 1,100 majority is weighing in his favor. He says he is going to win. Dyer, who was here today, says he will be nominated. He has been making a strong pull for the vote of old soldiers and organized labor. He is undoubtedly a much greater factor in the race for treasurer than was predicted he would be. If Dyer is not nominated it is safe to say be will cut a prominent figure deciding the contest. Just now the opinion prevails that either Frank Martin or Dave Sherrick have the commanding position in the race for auditor, but none of the political forecasters care to go on record with a public prediction as to which is going to win. It is evident that the attendance at the convention ‘ is to be a record breaker. The leading hotels have nearly every room already reserved and applications are being made every day.' There is less than three weeks for the candidates to finish their canvass and a majority are now settling down here for the purpose of getting their organization in shape. The Journal carries a full line of legal blanks at reasonable prices.