Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — Call for Representative Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for Representative Convention.

The Republicans in each precinct in the Representative District, composed of Jasper and Newton counties, are requested to meet in Precinct Mass Convention, at or near their respective voting places, at 2 o'clock, p. m., on Thursday, July Ist, A; D., 1886, and then and there select, by a majority ballot of all the Republican voters of said precinct present, the number of delegates tc the Representative Convention respectively as apportioned to such precinct as follows: Barkley, two (2); Beaver, three (3); Colfax ,jnd McClellan, one (1); Carpenter East, three (3); Carpenter West, three (3); Gillam, two (2); Grant, five (5); Hanging Grove, one (1): Iroquois, two (2); Jackson,(2); Jefferson South, two (2); Jefferson North, (3); Jordan, (1); Kankakee, one (1); Keener, two (2); Lake, two (2); Lincoln, .one (1); Marion North, four (4); Marion South, two (2); Milroy, one (1); Newton, ond (1); Union, one (I); Walker, one Washington, two (2): and Wheatdeld one (1). .

The delegates so selected Will meet at Fair Oaks, on Tuesday, July 6th, A. £>.. 1886,at 11 o’clock, a. m., to nominate by a majority ballot of the delegates then present, on a call of the roll in alphabetical order, a Republican candidate tor Representative. Each delegate should be chosen by a fair majority ballot of all the Republicans attending the Precinct Convention. Alternates may be chosen for each or any delegate, designating particularly the delegate for which an alternate may act, but no proxies will be allowed, and the place of an absent delegate can only be filled by the alternate dnly chosen to act for him. i ' Mordecai F. Chilcote, Chm’n Rep. Cen. Com. of Jasper Co. Andrew Sall, Chm’n Rep. Cen. Com. of Newton Co.