Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Call for County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for County Convention.

■The Republicans and all other voters of Jasper county, without regard to past polit cnl diilrcnces or previous paity affiliations, who will co-operate with the R epublican ~ Party in "sunport of itsnoin i nees. are request.d to meet, in mass convention, at ‘,he Court House, in 'Rensselaer, on Saturday, Febi nary ICth, 188-1, at one o’clock p, in., for the'.puvpcse of transaetingdlm following business:' First —Re-organization of the county central committee, and town and precinct committees, for the campaign of 1884. Second—The appointment of delegates to the congressional district convention, at Logansport, to be held Thursday, April 10, 1884. Third—The appointment of delegates to the two State convention.at Indianapolis, to be held Thursday, April 17, and Thursday, June 119, 1884, respectively. , Fourth—The appointment (if deemed expedient) of delegates to a convention to nominate a candidate for Congress, and of delegates to the judicial and joint represents, tire district conventions. By order of the County Centra! Committee. TTSV."Bc.m ock, M. F. Chiluote, Secy. Chairman.

The Republicans of Benton county are called to meet in mass convention, at Fo trier, on Saturday, the 23rd, of February. . A big row over the management ■'of the post-office has broken out at Lafayette and a government agent is making an investigation. We aio confident that Mr. Lingle will come out on top in the fight, and show that the management of the tiffice has been all straight. There is not a city outside of the realms of Hades more disgracefully governed than Lafayette. The last infamy reported from that little democratic hell is the arrest* there, in a vile gambling den, of Dr. S. S. Washburn, •i member of the city’ council. Twomass conventions are called to meet in Rensselaer on Satur-_ day, Feb., 10th. The Republicans’ and the Greenbackers’. The republicans will meet in the court house, but the gieenback call does not designate their place of meeting. No very spacious hall will be required, we presume. An interesting and rather extensive pen picture of . the Hon. 'W H. Calk ins wi 11 be found i n the columns of the Republican Extra this week. Mr. Calkins is not only one of the very ■foremost men in Congress to-day, but he possesses a special interest for Jasper county readers, in that this county one. formed part of the congressional district represented by him, and he is, consequently, well known tc many of our readers. laawwsMiiaaMHaxMaßaHDSSaEHaai To be prepared for war is not only; tho surest way of securing peace, but it is the ONLY way by which this country can be exempt- * ed from the (bullying and insults of such nations as Germany, Russia, and France, and from immeasurable shame and loss in case of a foreign war. Our sea-board fortifications and cannons ought to be, in every particular, fully equal to those of any other nation; and our navy, while it need not be so strong, numerically, as those ol some other nations, should have several vessels fuily able to cope with the best afloat. Let our navy, our forts, our torpedoes and wur big guns be kept in good shape, if it costs fifiy-millioiis a jjear..

The ‘‘January Thaw’” wks long in coming, but “old business” w hen it gpt here. ; The movement to erect a grand soldier’s monument at Indianapolis, by popular subscription, is being heartily responded to throughout the state; and the prospect is good that ample funds will soon be raised to erect a monument which will be a credit to the state and do lilting honor to Indiana’s brave soldiers. . The time was when the Delinquent List paid to its publishers as much as 8300 or S4OO each year. It isno w worth barely orc fourth of that sura, and, besides -that, it requires a vast amount of difficult and exact labor, upon the part of the printers, to preparuTfr for publication. It will therefore be seen that the list is not, by any means, the “big thing’ for. the newspapers, which a great many people imagine it to be» Printers usually earn what they get as well as almost anybody else, and especially is that the case with what they get out of the Delinquent Liat.

Next Saturday, February 2nd., is Ground Hog’s Day, when the the ground hog will crawl out of iiis hole and if he is still thick enough to cast a shadow’, withoutstanding twice in the same place, he will again retire from public ■ view and live upon the interest ol j his accumulated fat for yet anoth-1 er six weeks. When The Great American Hog rises in his native majesty, ami with one mighty root of his omnipotent snoot breaks down all the barriers the European despotisms have erected against him, then we shall celebrate the Ground into the Ground Hog’s, Day; and Germany and France, awed by the gloom of his portent ions shadow, will crawl back into their holes, and take their medicine of American ham fat, without more squealing.

Here is a little paragraph which -originated, wehnow not where, but which fits the case as well in Jasper county as any place else: , Do the metropolitan papers give you any home news? Nothing. Do they contain notices of your schools, meetings, churches, improvements and hundreds of other local matters of interest which our paper furnishes without pay? No. Do they ever say a word calculated to draw attention to your county and, its thriving towns and aid in their ..progress and enterprise ?. Not a word. And yet some men take such contracted views of the matter that unless they get as many square inches of reading matter in their home paper, they think they are not getting the worth of their - j money. They remind us of what is said to be the Chinamen’s practice in buying boots. To take 0 the big- ’ '"gest pair in 'Tfie box, irrespective < 111, because, tlieythusgGtthe most leather for their money.

We have again' had the great misfortune to provoke the wrarh of our splenetic brother of the Benton Be vie w. Our offense co nsista m the occasional friendly part we have taken to add interest to the jealous quarrel between Oxford and Fowler, carried on by the rustling Carr upon the one side, and the slower coaches of the Era and Review upon the other. We have “hollered” for both sides with a good deal of impartiality, for although the odds are two to one against John we blieved that his superior viin made him fully a match for both the others. Although we are deeply grieved to think that the Review has not taken our “wounds of a friend” in the trulj T Christian spirit which we had anticipated, we will ventureto remark tjiat we do not at all apprehend, to use the Review’s own peculiar style of Orthography, .that its displeasure will be - serious a burden to bear as to prove an “inseperable obsticle” to the further publication of tnis paper. *

The republicans of Newton Co. will hold their mass convention at Mount .Airy, this year, Friday, February 2Jid, is the date appointed. and France have caught the American Hog under thier gates, but he will make ~such..a din in thier ears with.his squealing that they will soon be glad enough-to let him through. It now appears that Mr. Rayne, whom rhe democrats of Ohio lately elected to the U. 8. Senate, has not and never had any interest in the Standard Oil Company. This new- will b?. very comforting to our Republican friends, who have lately lost so' much sleep on that account. . ' _

We clip the above paragraph from the Benton Review, but as the same thing, word for word, appears,' without credit, in the Democratic f'entinel, we persume that it emanates from the Literary 7 Bureau, which largely controls the. politics of the democratic press of the stale.- While it may Be true-that Mr.. Payne himself is tiol a stock holder in -the Standard Oil Company, (although the contrary opinion is almost universal r his son Oliver, who personally attended the business ol’buying votes enough toseenre the senatorship, is one of the very foremost men in that great monojxdy and president of the Ohio Branch of it. The Standard- Oil Company’s money elected Mr- Payne and half of the respectable democratic papers of the country admit that it did.