Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — Call for County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for County Convention.

To Me 'Republican voters Pj Jasper con niff. At a meeting of your chojjcn reproseutatl'v.esj ■•Fie . Republican,Umtnd , Committee of .l.Jajs-per county; Kelibat Rensselaer, Friday, March f>.th, 1880, the following method of nominating the Repubiicr.n County ticket, for the e.nsuing campaign, was unanimously adopted: be held m each townsliip and voting precinct, on ’ , Thursday, April 29th, 1886, at the hour of 1 o’clock p.*m.,- -at which.ilie following business shall be transacted: (l.) Delegates and alternates shall be c.uosen to represent the townsliip, or precinct, at tire County Republican Convention. The number of delegates and alternates to which each township and precinct is entitled, being specified below. (2.) '--A single ballot shall be taken for candidates for Ibo rm ious county brfiees, to be filled at tiie ensuing 'November election. These ballots shall be carefuily counted, and the-number of votes oast for, each person be- reported, in dujilicate, on ldanks. furnisherl . 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 the 1 Chairmnu of the township or precinct committee; and the duplicate re pot’i. shall be taken cl i ruga of by some one.of - the township orqpre-c-znct 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, iSßfi. 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 ■oificPb shall then be carefully com--pilled, and if any person be found to hitv e-D. majerity of all the votes cas4i in the county, lie shall be declared‘the candidate of the convention for the office for which he received such majority. In case there be any offices for w kick no pi rson liivs received a majority of all the votes, the conyenypn snail then proceed to nominate, by bah lot, candidates for such offices. DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. The basis of representation at the county convention, of each township and precinct, shall betide vote'cast for the Republican presidential Electors hrlbS-l; one delegate and one alternate being allowed for each ten such votes or fractional part of ten votes ol five or more. The numbered: delegates -and, -alternates to which each township and precinct is entitled, is as follows: ' - Hanging Grove, fi. G ilium, 11. \V:I ker r - ti. Barkley, \ ; T 12. Marion, Nc.rth precinct, 20. “ South jirecinct, 11. Jordan, ’ 7. Newton, 6. JFeen-er, Kankakee, “ 4. Wheatfield; 2. Milroy, 2.L’nion,. —. . • .F" ’ *'• Carpenter, East precinct, 11 “ ' West precinct,. Iff. 1 - The places for.holding.thistowi!r ship Masc Conventions shall be the usual places of holding elections, except in Marion and Carpenter townships, in which, proper jdaceu shall be designated by the Precinct Central Committees. The ballots used at the township mass conventions .?h; 11 be uniform in form throughout the county, and be furnished, b blank -form, by the County Central Committee. All Republican residents of the of the county who will be legal voters at the November election of .IfcSfi, arc entitled to take part in th«- primary mass convention. The votes of all persons-known to belong to other political organize tions,. mnet be excluded." Done‘by order of the Republican County Central Committee. M. F. Chilcote. Ch’mn. G. E. Marshall, Sec’y. ■; ■ \ - . X: ■ ‘ -G. • .o