Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Indiana Republicans. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Republicans.

Call for Two State Conventions and Congressional Conventions' The Republican State Central Committe have issued a call for two conventions. • '' First: A delegate convention to meet at Ihdianapolis. Thursday, April 17, at 10 o'clock a. m., to elect four delegates for the state at large and four alternates to attend the National Convention at Chicago. The basis of representation in said convention is one delegate for every 500 votes and one for every fraction of over 250 votes cast for Governor Porter in 1880. This convention is strictly limited to the work of selecting delegates and alternates . ■ ~~ ■ TT-— —" Second: A delegate convention, to be held at Indianapolis, on Thursday, June 19, 1884, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating a state ticket to be voted for in November to select presidential electors, and transact such other business as may be deemed necessary and proper. The basis of representation is this convention is one delegate for every 100 votes and one for every fraction of over 100 votes cast for .Governor A. G. Porter in 1880. Jasper county will bo entitled to three delegates to the State Convention of April 17, and seven to the State Convention of June 19th. On the evening preceding the convention to be held on June 19, the delegates from each congressional district-will meet at rooms hereafter to be designated, for the purpose of selecting persons to serve as follows: 1. One member of We committee on credentials. 2. One member of the committe on permanent organization, rules and order of business; which committee will nominate a permanent president and secretary, also two presidental electors and two alternates for the State at large. —' 3. One district vice-president. 4. One district assistant secretary. 5. One member of the committee on resolutions. G. One district presidental elector and one alternate. ‘On Thursday April 10th the Tenth Congressional District delegate convention will meet at Logansport. Jasper county will be entitled to seven delegates. The convention is limited Ao the following business: ...... First: —The selection of two (2) delegates to represent the district in the Republican. National Contention, and two (2) alternates. Second: —The selection of one member of the State Central Committee. Third:—Fixing a date and. place for holding a convention to nominate a candidate for Congress. Fourth:—The organization of a Congressional district committee. This cammitta. will be—composed. - of-Ahe chairmen of the several county central committees, with the district member of the State Central committe as chairman.

To-day, on the parallel of New York City, which is Tdmost exactly the same as that of Rensselaer, rhe sun rises at 7:12 o’clock and sets at 5:16. This makes the day’s length ten hours and four niinutes, without counting ‘the twilight at which hehas. out considerable, for those who’ are of a mind to make use of it. The increase in the clay’s length, since Dec., 20, has been 49 minutes. Only nine minutes of the increase has been added to the forenoon, while the other .forty minutes has all been given to the afternoon. A fact which would seem to imply that the laws of nature were modified to suit -the needs of the late risers. The excess in length of the afternoon over the forenoon,, is now twentyeight minutes; of the night over the day the excess ju length is one hour and fifty-two minutes.