Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — Call for County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for County Convention.

To the Republican voter's of Jasper county*. At a meeting of your chosen representatives, the Republican 1 Central Committee of Jasper County* held at Rensselaer, Friday, March sth, 1886, the following method of nominating the Republican County ticket, for the ensuing campaign, was unanimously adopted: Primary Mass Conventions will be. held in each township and votingprecinct, on ' Thursday, April 29th, 1886» at the hour of 1 o’clock p. m-, at which the following business shall be transacted: (1.) Delegates and alternates shall be chosen to> represent the township, or precinct, at the County Republican Convention. The number of delegates and alternates to which each township and precinct is entitled, being specified below. .. if (2.) A single ballot shall be taken for candidates for the various county offices, to be filled at the ensuing November election. These ballots shall be carefully counted, and the number of votes cast for each person be reported, in duplicate, on blanks furnished for the purpose by the County Central Committee. The report and the ballots shall then be sealed and taken charge of and brought to the county convention, by tne Chairman of the township or precinct committee; and the duplicate report shall be taken charge of by some one of the township or pre-. emet delegates and shall also’ be’ brought to the county convention. THE COUNTY CONVENTION. The county convention shall be held in the Court House in Rensselaer. at one o’clock p. m., on

Saturday, May Ist, 188 U. It shall organize by electing the proper officers, committees, etc, and shall then call for the reports of the ballots of"the township and precinct conventions, above mentioned.- The number of votes received by all candidates for county offices shall then be carefully computed, and if any person be -found to have a majority of all the votes cast in the county, he shall be declared ths candidate of the convention for the office for which - he received such there be any offices for which no person has received a majority of all the votes, the convention - Ftialb then proceed to nominate, by ballot, candidates for such offices.

DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. The basis,of representation at the county convention, of each township and precinct, shall be the vote’cast for the Republican presidential Electors in 1884; one delegate and oiie alternate being allowed for each ten such votes or fractional part oi ten votes of five or more. The n'dmberof delegates ' and alternates to which each' township and precinct is entitled, I is as follows:. Hanging Grove, 6. Gillam, 11. -Walker, 6. Barkley, 12. Marion, North precinct, 20. “ South precinct, 11. Jordfo, . 7. Newton, C. Kteener, s Kankakee, 4. \\ heatiield, 2. i Milroy, ■' 2. . Union, 6. Carpenter, East precinct, 14'. “ West precinct, 13. ■ The -plafles for holding the town- ! skip Mass Cpfiventions shall be ' the usual places of holding el'ections,. except i.m. Marion ana Casi. ..pffiiter townships, in which, proper 1 .places shall be designated* by the ; Precinct Central Committees, The ballots-used at the township 1 mass conventions shall be uniform in form throughout the county,. and be furnished, in blank form, by the County-Central Committee. -- - AlUlvqmbJican residents -of the ■ of the county who will be legal voters at the November election of 1886, are entitled to take part in the primary mass Convention. The votes of all persons known to -be* long to other political organizations, must to excluded-. Done by order of the Republican County Central Committee. • -Chiloote. Cli’mn. G. E. Marshall. Sec’y. |