Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Republican Town Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican Town Convention.

Republican Town Ticket. For Trustee for the First District, NATHANIEL W. REEVEFor Trustee fqr the Second District ADDISON • PARKISON. For Trustee for the Fourth District SIMON PHILLIPS. For Town Clerk, FRED L. CHILCOTE. For Town Treasurer, CHARLES C. STARR. For. Town Marshal, WILLIAM H. WOOD. The Republican convention to nominate a ticket to bo voted for (and elected); next Monday, was held at the court house, last Monday evening. Over 130 Republican voters were present and participated in the work. The nominating of a Councilman for the first ward was the first work, in order. R. P. Benjamin and C. P. Wright were voted for. Result, Wright 55 votes. Benjamin 47. Wright was declared the nominee. Subsequently, however, it was discovered that Mr. Wright did not live in the First Ward and N. W. Reeve was nominated by acclamation. For Councilman in the Second Ward Addison Parkison was nominated by acclamation. In the Fourth Ward Simon Phillips was nominated in the same manner.

For Town Clerk Fred L. Chilcote, Arthur H. Hopkins and' Jcrs. „F. Hardman were named as candidates. .The first ballot gave Chilcote 75 votes, Hopkins 27 and Hardman 31. Chilcote having received a majority of all the* votes cast, was declared the nominee. For Treasurer, C. C. Starr, the present incumbent, was re-no,mi-liated by acclamation. For Town Marshal, W. H. Wood, the present incumbent, and Win. Warren were put in nomination. The ballot made Wood the candidate by a vote of 80 for him to 53 for W arren. e It is an excellent ticket and was nominated with the utmost harmony and good feeling.

Proofs are now abundant in all directions that the worst elements of the Democratic party are now controlling its destinies. Look at the backdown under the lash of the Southorn.brigadiers.Look at Mills, of Texas, rattling around in the place that should be filled by Randall. Look at Senator Voorhees, voluntarily appearing before the Supreme Court of the United States tp defend and eulogize the tally-sheet convicts and criminals. Look at the slaughter of “Uncle Joe” McDonald, in his own ward, by an insignificant tool of Isaac P. Gray. Look at the infamy of Governor McEnery in Louisiana. Look at Grover Cleveland and the Solid South. Last but not least, look at the convict, Sim Coy, running a nominating campaign in Marion county and routing the better element of the party at all points. A little later on we may also look at the robber and baron, William L. Scott, at the head of the Democratic National Committed scattering boodle over the land, and heading the hosts of corruption in the N<srthand law defiance in the South in the most daringly unscrupulous and desperately infamous election campaign of all history, for the re-election of the man Cleveland. Will the better element of the Democi atic party consent to be degraded to the low level of this worst element ?—Logansport Journal. <<