Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — Call for a Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for a Convention.

In accordance with an order T.aI • sued "by the' Indiana Bo publican ►State central committee, a mass/ convention of the Republican voters Of Jasper county is hereby ! called, to meet at the courthouse, in Rensselaer, one o’clock p. m., on Saturday, January 30th, 1886, at which time the 1 following business will be transacted: 1, There shall be elected one delegate for each voting precinctin the county, and one alternate, who.shall be delegates and alt r'Tiates to a district convention 4.0 ’ lie held at Logansport on Thurs'day, February llth, 1886. . 2. There shall be elected the ! Republican county committee,'to ! succeed-the' present county coin--1 mittee. ■ - , I 3. There shall be. transacted j | such other county political bush ! j nesS as may be properly brought : before the convention; ; • w . p' By order, of the Republican 1 County central committee of Jas j per county. . W. A. Rinehart, Chm’n. ; G. E. Marshall See'y. jm

1 It seems that Indiana’s mi ‘bt, I under Democratic management, is ! constantly increasing. J. H. Bice, Auditor of 51 : . ; u<• day Hied h a i report- for the year ending October j ill, 1885, with Gov. Gray. The ! roe- jpg of :!i - Treasury for tice : year were 81.2815,055; expenditures, | ■•'1,401,181: lowing a deficiency of j-$] —The total foreign debt or the. slate is now 81,703,825 and • the domestic. <d£bt 8 j:,30-1,783; total : 8(5,008,60S, an increase of SI,OOO, ; 000 the last The total i amount Of interest now paid ant nually is 8313,870.' Is it not time | to have a change ?--Michigan City | Enterprise, t&a vrr. taw-crae • . : The letter carriers in Indiauapo- | lie are protected'“by the civil s-.-r- ---: vice law, l'vow arbitrary removal.-. { iho postmaster at that edy, ! who is very anxions to make as j many places as possible for Jjis • friendsp' avails himself of every possible pretext ioTeinove tiie Liepublican letter carriers and replace • them with his own friends,. A few : weeks ago lie removed one of his ■ most faithful carriers, on no other grounds than the assertion of a characterless car driver Pwho had- : lately served a term in the state reform school ) that on the day of [Mr. Hendricks’death, he (the car

tlriver ) had heard the carrier eommuinctife (he news of Mr. Hendricks’death in a vorv cheerfuj, t and jocular manner. The carrier was ihereh re arbitrarily dismissed? and what was much worse, given no opportunity to say a single word •in his own defense. This “act has now. been followed, by. another t ( .. n j | equally as unjust. A. few days ago 1 two of the Republican carriers got j into a in the' post-office, and ; without a single moment’s warning, orr opportunity for explanation, wereYlismissed from the service. i This in face of the fact that e'vervk - - I one present in the room when the light took ‘place,''declared that one ! of the parties was entirely bhfme- : less in the matter, and did noth | ing more than to defend himself I ii) a manly way. •» Tiro Sentinel replies to the | statement of ‘'Soldier” that the j Democratic party was not willing I to allow the-Soldiers at the front I tlie right to vote, by saying that, “Every Democratic paper,•-every Democratic politician, and every Democrat of note, was in favor of permitting the soldiers to return to their respective homes to vote ” The Sentinel is rigid, for once, and the admission is a complete “give away” of his party. The .feernoy

4 ; N_ . crats were not willing to allow the soldiers to vote while at the- front, but were not only willing but anxious that enough of them should return home, to vote, tofatally weaken the Union armies and ruin the Union cause. Yes, that class of Democrats were, indeed, willing the soldiers should come home, for any ptirpose, and-‘more than willing that they should stay home ' when they got there. j Our esteemed iihd pious contemporary i"a not more fortunate in his arguments of last week, than in Ids, “Et iiteratum, et pnnetuafum” effort of the week previous He had better confine hirnseiT strictly to liis “dampllool,” “kid” “lie,” business. Vulgar and profane abuse is about the only -thing Mac is proficient in, and any fool can be yulgar, profane, and -allusive: