Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — SCOOPING AND GETTING SCOOPED. [ARTICLE]

SCOOPING AND GETTING SCOOPED.

The republicans of Marion township arc requested to ineet at the Court House, Monday, April 21st at 7:30 p. in. to organize a Republican club. The new management, of the lx, N. A. A* C. meant business when they said that the' road should be put. in good shape, forthwith. Four construction train?, each running’ large forces -of hands' are now at work in different places on the two of the road. One train has been working in the vicinity of Rensselaer for some time. At a meeting of ministers and Sunday school teachers and workers held at the Baptist church last Monday evening, arrangements • were perfect for holding a county Sunday school convention. It will be held at the Baptist church, in this place on April 2Htli and 30th. The programme for ‘the convention appears in this issue of The Republican. The State Republican convenlion for choosmg four delegates, for the state at large, to the National convention," meets at Tnctianapolis tb-rlay. Messi's. M. F. Chilcote, S. C. Maxwell and I. D. Dunn are the duly elected delegates from Jasper county. Mr. Chilcote started for the capital yesterday, and the others will probably also attend the convention. ■ The Democratic Sentinel actually has the gall to claim John R. Gray, trustee of Wheatfield, and Frank Welsh, trustee of Jordan, is dclnbcrats, and yet in the* very »gives Mr. Welsh as a Greenback com.it tee hum, for Jordan township, ind that gentleman himselL pro-* i hums his .will illness to go be’’ure any court in the county and :u take oath that he is a genuine :.ud consistent Greenbnckei.- And as for Mr. Gray he was elected an alternate delegate to the Greenback statu convention, at the Greenback convention in February and his name published r-s -uclr, both in this paper and in the sentinel. Move than that, we have the woid of prominent GreenLaekers for ihc fact that he has attended’and taken part in both or of the county late Greenback conventions of this y< ar. So many and so piominem ,liav< been the instances in Jaspei .bounty of Democrats seeking rof♦ice under the guise of Green Lackers that the Sentinel perhaps thinks 'that you only need to Scratch a Grueubacker ( where he itches—for oflDe) and you will find a democrat; - but there are really men of principle among the Jasper county green backers and he have uo doubt that Messrs. Welsh and Gray are of tout numher.. » . .

We Lose the Convention but get llir Delegate. The Congressional District convention at Logansport last Thursday was largely attended by the solid republicans of the district. Rensselaer dill not get the nominating convention, but upon our able townsman, S. P. Thompson was conferred the high honor of a selection as one of the two delegates to represent the district at the National convention, which was honor enough for Jasper county, for one day. Mr. ThomiJstjii was the first delegate nominated-and~"his elec- i tion was good naturally contested by Hon. M. L. De Motte, who made a happy (speech, referring’to his defeat as giving the republicans an opportunity to choose a candidate who can and will by elected. Mr. DeMoite has shown that he will bo true to the party even though a misguided few, from motives of personal malice/ defeated him in 1882. The nominating convention will be held at Monticello, on Thursday, June 26th. 7 v;,.. >. \V. 1L >ll mi n was c hox 1 n for the secoll<l national delegate, and U. Z. Wiley and G. F. Griffin were selected for alternates. According to the Indianapolis Journal Mr. Thompson has no presidential preferences but Mr. Holman and both the alternates are for Blaine and Lincoln. A vote on presidental preferences showed that a majority of the convention favored Blaine for president, with merely scattering votes for other candidates. For vice-president the choice for Robert Lincoln was unanimous. .1. M. Watts, of Delphi, was reelected member of the state central committee.