Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — State Representative. [ARTICLE]

State Representative.

Editor Republican :—The mass conventions called to meet at Marlborough, Gillaip Center, Barkley Center, Wheatfield, DeMotte, Surrey, Egypt, Price's school house, Ohio Street school house, in Remington, the Court house, Presbyterian church and old School house in Rensselaer, at 2 o'clock p. m., on Saturday, June 21, 1884, will be held in the interest of Republican freedom and equality. The rule of a majority on a free vote and fair count will elect delegates and each delegate will be instructed to form the same rule in the Representative convention. That convention will consist of 25 delegates and these delegate s ought to each vote by written ballots after the form of our mass conventions, for candidates until one receives a majority of all the ballots. In selecting delegates to the convention our voters would do well to choose conscientious men of talent and influence who will be able to know and obtain the right result in a true Tepublican manner. The candidate so chosen can and will be elected by a majority of seven hundred. He will most certainly be an able and efficient legislator, The voters have a free field from which to select a man with the best talent for legislative work. The occasion demands of us to select and elect a discreet, able and influential member of the State legislature. The people should suggest, their own candidates. Each voter carries his “sovereignty under his hat” until his delegate is chosen. May every Republican voter resolve to go to the proper convention and express his views not only to secure a proper but as an approval of a new and better method of selection. ***