Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1880 — No Nomination for Prosecuting Attorney. [ARTICLE]

No Nomination for Prosecuting Attorney.

The Republican Judicial convention which met at Goodland last Saturday, adjourned without nominating a candidate. Two or three unprincipled men from Benton county undertook to balldoze and ohoke out Dr. A. W. Wells, one of the regularly chosen delegates, and vote three unauthorized persons in bis stead, in order to get control of the delegation from that county. Finding these men deaf to every appeal for honesty, fairness and harmony, the whole of the Jasper delegation and one half of the Benton delegation withdrew from the convention, leaving less than a majority of the votes. Dr. Wells, whom the rabble sought to disfranchise, is one of the foremost citizens of Benton county, and esteemed by all of its good citizens without regard to party, for his good sense, intelligence and unquestioned integrity. He is in the fullest sense of the word a dignified gentleman —a true man. That he was the duly authorized delegate and entitled to cast the vote, there was no question. He represented one-sixth of Benton county, or over two hundred votes. No excuse nor pretense of reason for their insult to him and his constituents. When these facts had been ably, logically and dispassionately presented to the convention and the representatives of Mr. Bishop from Newton county persisted in acting with the men who seemed to be leading a mob rather than conducting a convention, the delegation from Jasper and one-halt of the delegates from Benton withdrew on the distinctive statement that they could not lend themselves to a palpable and highhanded fraud. The unauthorized persons for Benton then joined with the Newton delegates and went through the form of nominating Mr. Bishop, claiming 20J votes, but as they had only 17| votes and less than a majority, ot course their pretended action will be treated as null and void and Mr. Bishop will not be recognized as the nominee of the Republican party.

The Democratic congressional convention, held at Monticello, last week, did the party in this district great injustice by selling it out to the Greenbackers in confirmation of Skinner, the G. B. nominee. Several of the more honest Democrats bolted the convention, swearing they would not be bound by it. The Rochester Sentinel, one of the most reliable and influential Democratic organs m this district, says: There appears to be a lack of harmony in the party over the nomination made that will result in no good in the election. If Mr. Skinner wants to be_ the <€andidate of both parties he must choose which one be will serve and allow the other the privilege of supporting him if it chooses to do so. Unless he is willing to make a public pledge that he will support the Demooratic national, State, district and.local tickets, no Democrat is under obligation to vote for him. Democrats of this county want to know whose candidate he is, and if he cannot tell, we insist that another conyention be called and a man nominated about whom there is no question as to which party he trains with. If Mr. Skinner gives proof that he is for the Democratic nominees throughout, and will support Democratic measures if he should be sent to Congress, this county will give him a liberal support. A failure to do so within a. reasonable time will necessitate the dhoice of another candidate. The Indiana Eclectic Medical Association at the annual meeting, in May, passed the following resolutions: 'll Ist, That the Indiana Eclectic Medical Association will indorse a bill regulating the practice of medicine in this State, provided the act is impartial and grants equal rights and privileges to the members of each school of medicine in Indiana. 2d, That we reoommend the bill proposed by Dr. Leah, substituting, however, “State Boards” in lieu-of “District Boards,? said boards to meet at the capital. -.