Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1902 — CLERK MAY BE ELECTED. [ARTICLE]

CLERK MAY BE ELECTED.

Talk of Electing Clerk of the Circuit Court This Fall. It may yet be found necessary to elect a clerk of the circuit court at the coming county election. It is claimed by some that the law making county officers’ terms uniform by having them all commence January Ist is inoperative as to the clerk of the circuit court, inasmuch as in the law it speaks of county clerks, when there is no such office, their legal title being clerk of the circuit court. At a meeting of the Democratic state central committee in Indianapolis last week it was decided by them to have nominations made for this office where the election would have been held before the passage of this law. Jasper county is one of the counties to be covered’jby their decision and if the Democrats make a nomination here the Republicans will do likewise. Chairman Warner has been authorized to make a call for another convention if necessary. A test case will probably be rushed through the courts,to settle the (matter.