Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — Republicans Attention. [ARTICLE]

Republicans Attention.

In Bccordane? with a call of the Republican Stnto Central Committee, the republicans of the^several townships of Jasper county ami all w|io wish to co-operate with them will meet at the usual place of township meetings in their respective townships, on Saturday, January nth, ls:>0 , at 2 o’clock F. M, for the transactionof the following business: First. Elect from each voting precinct a member of the county central committee. The committeemen so chosen will meet in the office of M. F. Chilcote, in Rensselaer, pp Saturday, Jan. 18, 1890, at 2 o’clock p. in., and elect the usual officers and an executive committee of three or five members. Second. Elect delegates and alternate delegates to attend a district convention of the 10th congressional district to be held at Hammond on Thursday, Jan. 23, 1890. The different townships will be entitled to delegates as follows: 8ark1ey....... 1 Marion...... 3 Carpenter..... 2 Milroy 1 Gi11am........1 Newton..... .1 Hanging Grove 1 Union 1 J0rdan........! Walker I Kankakee 1 Wheatfield.. 1 Keener 1 Total; ~ .16 The business of the convention at Hammond will be to elect a member of the State Central Committee for the Tenth Congressional District J M. F. Chilcote, Chairman of Jasper Co. Rep. C. C. G. E. Marshall, Secy. -.-~

The death of Henry W. Grady, the brilliant orator and editor of the Atlanta Constitution, oecured laet Monday morning. In his death the nation has lost one of its ablest and broadest minded leaders of the southern states. He died at the comparatively early age of forty years, and was thus cut off at the very beginning of a career of great honor and usefulness. . The year 1889 has not been a bad one for Rensselaer, as the summary of improvements, published elsewhere, will amply prove. The installation of the electric light plant is the great feature of the year, and itself marks a long step in advance in the way of improvement. The building of what is, by far, the finest church iu the county, is also a very notable item, and one calling for special gratulations, especially as the town has, heretofore, been more deficient in the respect of church architecture than in any other particular. In the matter of new residences built, a subject for gratification is found in the fact that many of them are not - only comfortable and roomy structures, but are so attractive from an architectural point of view. As an ocular proof of the excellence of these new dwellings, it may be noted that the average cost of six of the beat is over twenty-one hundred dollars each.

The official call for the first organising conventions of the campaign of 1890 appears in thia ism of Tbs Bsmuco. As a

state campaign the contest of this year will be, without doubt, a tremendous struggle. Now, if ever, isthe time to wrest the control of, the state from the rule of the Gerrymander bulldozers and Green Smith usurpers, by reason of whose infamous methods the state to-day i in the United States Senate by a man who was virtually defeated before the people by a majority of ten thoueand votes. While by reason of .these same villainous Gerrymanders the 263 thousand Republican voters in the state are represented in the lower house of Congress by only three members, while the 261 thousand Democratic voters, have ten representatives in the same body. Eighty-seven thousand Indiana Republicans are equal to only twenty six thousand democrats, in . p< idical power in the Congress of this nation! Let the great camj paign of 1890 wipe out this menu|menial injustice; and for that grand object let every true llepublieau do his full share, at every opportunity, beginning with these first organizifigliOnveDtioDs. The first call of the States for the introduction of bills was made Wednesday of last week in the House of Congress, and the following were presented by Hon. W. D. Owen: “Authorizing a survey for the purpose of establishing a continuous waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river (the Hennepin canal); amending the Revised Statutes so as to provide that all pensions which have been or which may hereafter be granted in consequence of death occuring from causes which originated in the service since March 4, 1865, or in consequence of wounds or injuries received, or diseases contracted, shall commence from the death or discharge of the person on whose account the claim has been or is hereafter granted for the disability prior to the discharge, and if such disability occurred after discharge, then from date of actual disability, or from termination of the right of party having prior title to such pension; to aid in the establishment and temporary support of common schools; appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Logansport; providing that catalogues of all institutions of learning, and reports or minutes of religious or benevolent institutions shall be tra nspcikd tLi<u{) J< mails without limitation, as to the intervals of issue.”