Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — The Senatorial, Judicial, and Representative Conventions. [ARTICLE]

The Senatorial, Judicial, and Representative Conventions.

Messrs. M. F. Chilcote, chairman of the Jasper county Republican Central Committee, H. S. Travis, who occupies a corresponding position in Benton county, and Andrew Hall, chairman of the Newton county committee, met at Kentland, on Wednesday of last week, and arranged times, places and methods for holding the convention for nominating 'candidates for State Senator from Benton, Jasper and Newton counties; and for Prosecuting Attorney for the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit. Messrs. Chilcote and Hall also arranged for holding the convention ffor nominating a candidate for Represenative for the counties, of Jasper and Newton. The Represenative convention to nominate a Represenative for Jasper and Newton counties, will be held at Fair Oaks, in Jasper county, on Tuesday, J uly 6. The Judicial convention, to nominate a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, for this district, at Fowler, in Benton "county, on Wednesday, July 7th. t~

The Senatorial convention to nominate a candidate for State senator to represent Benton, Jasper and Newton counties, at Goodland, in Newton county, on Thursday, July Btli. The delegates to these conventions are to be selected by caucus in each township in' the-district, one delegate being allowed for each fifty votes or fraction of twen - ty-five or over. Where any township has less than twenty-five votes, such township is to be combined with some other township. These township caucuses are to be held on Thursday,. Jnly 1 st. This basis of representation will give 81 delegates in each convention, and of which Benton county has 32 delegates, Jasper county 26, and Newton county 23. The committee wisely decided to specify in thfeir calls for these conventions, that after the conventions met and properly organized that an a lphabeticai list of all the delegates composing the convention should be prepared, and that in voting for candidates the names of the delegates should be called. This arrangement will obviate all danger of any attempt to enforce the objectionable 1 unit rule, and also practically does away with county lines in the conventions and thus does much to secure wise and harmonious results from their deliberations. - ■ MM Hats and caps, of all varieties and styles, way down below everybodv else, in that line of business, at A. Leopold’s. Desirable town lots in Rensselaer, for dwelling purposes. Hard pan for cash, or time, to suit purchasers. „ Frank W. Babcock.

The Winamac Jo urncil says that, “Some of the baser and meaner of the Republican journals would like to seize upon the late riots in Chicago to denounce the mayor of the city for not quelling the disturbance by.the anarchists before the shooting of the police officers. The more liberal and the more respectable portion of the same party are loud in their approval of Mayor Harrison’s course” &c. &c. For the benefit of the Journal and other papers of similar views regarding the dcmaoagic mayor of Chicago, we reprint the following from the Northwestern Christian Advocate, one of the leading religous papers of the “country, and not to be accused of political bias or partiality: “Remember the twin I‘actsr - First, that the murder of policemen was direct fruit of tolerated ineen '.iary speech; second, that outrage is a direct fruit of political demagogy. The first needs no proof; the second is obvious. The Mavor appointed the Ardeiter Zeitung as temporary city orgau, and allowed policemen to escort red-flag processions through our streets, just as loyal processions are escorted. Our city rulers did not disperse the Anarchists simply because they are voters. Anarchy is directly responsible for that police murder, and demagogues are accessory.”

The situation- in fJhio is well though briefly * expressed by the Philadelphia Times, an independent Democratic paper, in the following* paragraphs: “The Republicans are the upper dogs in-the Ohio senate. The Senators deserted the Senate in a body because the Republicans meant to resort to revolutionary- proceedings to seat the four Republicans from Cincinnati, who were undoubtedly elected, and that desertion gave the Republicans a chance to seat their men by a viva voce vote, whereby the record of the body does not reveal the fuct that there was not a quorum present. “It was a trick, but tin excusable one under the circa instances, and as there is no going behind a legislative record, and as the Republicans have the President of the Senate, a quorum of qualified members, and the Supreme Court, they are safe at all points. They have obtained only what they are justly entitled to, and the Democrats have lost, as they deserve to lose, by attempting to sustain a palpable fraud, and to hold the, political control of the Senate when it justly belonged to the Republicans. It was revolutionary ac-' tion against revolutionary - action, and justice won on the home-stretch, although it had to come in bv servera cutting across lots.” '