Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1882 — THE REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

THE REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION

The republican convention for the nomination of a candidate to represent the district comprising the counties of Jasper and Newton, met at the court house in Rensselaer Saturday afternoon, pursuant to call. The convention was called to order by M. F. Chilcote, chairman of the Jasper county central committee. P. H. Ward, of Kentland, was chosen chairman of the convention, and W. W. Watson, of Rensselaer, secretary. Ephriam Bridgman, of Newton county, and John Lewis, of Jasper were appointed a committee on credentials. They reported no contests, and credentials all regular. The convention at once proceeded to nominate a representative. John Lewis placed in nomination the Hon. W. W. Gilman, of Newton county, the present representative. There being no other names presented, C. J. Brown moved that Mr. Gilman, be nominated by acclamation. The motion was carried without a dissenting vote. Mr. Gilman was present and m response to the calls of the delegates and audience took the platform and delivered an able and exhaustive address on the present political situation, and the relative claims the two parties have upon the confidence of the people. Mr. Gilman makes no pretense to rhetorical excellence but. his speech was full of sound sense and convincing argument. Taking him all in all, no better man for representative could be found in the district and the republicans of Jasper and Newton counties have shown good sense in thus renominating him with such unanimity.

The Scripture reminds us of the dog’s proclivity to 'inflict again upon his system that which his stomach has once rejected, and that the washed sow is very liable to betake herself to the mire at her earliest convenience. On the same principle the Democratic Sentinel persists in the equally dirty habit of slander, however often it may be rebuked. Two weeks ago, fur instance, the Sentinel in speaking of our course towards Mr. Travis after his nomination, charged us, to use its own vulgar expression, with having “eaten dirt.” We simply denied the allegation and requested the Sentinel to copy our remarks upon Mr. Travis, made after his nomination. This of course was the last thing in the world the Sentinel would be willing to do, becrZse it knows, as does every other person who read the article, that in our dignified .and self-respecting remarks in regard to Mr. Travis there was not one word that was inconsistent with anything we had ever said of him before; and nothing which any person with any regard for the truth could call “dirt eating.” We said, and are quite willing to repeat it, that Mr. Travis was a man of irreproachable private character, and who, when elected, as he wall be, can b« safely trusted to represent the interests of his constituents.