Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — Call for County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for County Convention.

77? the Ite]>hl>lican cote A-s ofJcLS'per'COUifty. At r meeting of your chosen representtttives, the Republican Central Committee* of Jasper county, held at Rensselaer, Friday, March sth, 1886, tlie following method of nominating the Republican County ticket, for tlife ensuing campaign, was unanimously adopted: . u - _ Primary Mass Canvmdions will be held nr.each jowHship and voting precinct, 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 shad be chosen to represent the township, or precinct,'at the County Republican Convention. The number of delegates and alternates to which each/tpwnship and precinct is entitled, being specified below. (2.) A single ballot shall be taken for candidates for the various coffnty offices/to be filled at the ensuing November eleclion. Thesq 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 io the counly' convention, by ‘tire Chairman of the township or precinct committee; and the duplicate rejxirt shall be taken eharge-ofi-by-some one of the toivnsliip or precinct delegates and shall alsA be brought to the county convention. THE COUNT i CONVENTION. The county convention shall be held in the Court House in ItensI selaor. at one rn'clockj). in.., on Saturday, Mai/ Ist Wilt 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. Tire number of votes received by all candr lutes for county offices shall then be carefully computed, and if any persoirte fotliidr to have a majority of all the votes cast in the county, he shall be declared the candidate .of the convention for the office for which lie received such majority. In case there be any offices for which no person has .received, a majority of all the votes, the convention sliall then proceed to nominate,. lot, candidati's for such offices. DELEGATES and alternated. The basis of representation at the county convention, of each township and precinct; shall be the. vote cast foi; the Republican jiresidential Electors in 1884; one delegate and one alternate being allowed for each ten such votes or fractional part of ten. votes of five or more . The number of delegates and alternates to which- each township and p'reejnet is entitled, is as follows:

Hanging Goxiye*,— __ Gillam, 11. Walkei, <’• Barkley, , j 12. Marion, Noith precinct. ' '2O. “ South precinct, 11. Jordan, <■ Newton. — • ' ■ 0Keeifer, " ... Kan kakee. _ ' 4AVheatfield, 2. Milroy, . - - ‘ 2. Union, 0. Carpenter, East precinct. 14. “ AVest precinct, 13. The places for holding the township Alass Conventions shall b* the usual places of . holding elections, except in Marion and C arpenter townships, in which, proper places shall be desigm.tvd by the Precinct Central Cmnmittees. The ballots used at the township mass conventions shall be in form -throughout the county, and be'furiiished, in blank form, by the County Central Committee. All Republican reshieuts of Jlie of the county who will be legal voters at the November.election of Ibßffi are entitled 1 to tak* part in ■fep-prrmaTy- Hrae&-€bikv.ention. Tlie votes of all'persons known to' belong to other politic;.: organization*;, must l»e excluded. ■ Done by order oftue'. Republican County Central . M. 1 kCHiLt oiT. Ch’mn. .. G. E Alareiiall. ’Sec’y.