Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — Notice of Republican Conventions. [ARTICLE]

Notice of Republican Conventions.

The Republicans of Jasper countv are requested to. meet in their respective school houses, and iu the school towns of Rensselaer and Remington at such places as may hereafter be designated by the proper committeemen, at 7 p, m. on Friday, March 2b, It 20, and at each meeting transact party business as follows: ‘ 1. Eleet-by majority bulloi a member of the precinct committee who shall act as chairman of the meeting. 2. Elect by majority ballot at delegate to the township convention who shall act as Secretary. 3. Prepare an accurate Poll of the voters who reside in the district including those who may reside contiguously in the township and be attached to another school township. 4. Cast and count a direct nominating township ticket. 5. Prepare a report to the precinct committee also a. report to the Township convention of the direct ballot and adopt the same. The delegates so selected are requested to meet at the usual voting places in the various townships except in Marion and Carpenter and those at places to be designated, on Saturday, March 29, at IP. and transact the following business: 1. Enroll the delegates and collate their reports as to the direct vote. 2. Announce or select by ballot a township ticket and report same to precinct committee which will meek immeiliately and." - - 1. Collate the reports of the members and arrange the poll books. 2. Make provisions to print tickets and look after party interest on election day. The members of the county committee who may reside in the precinct where these meetings shall be held shall act as chairman and report to this committee on Monday, March 31, 1890. Done by order of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee, Jan. 18,1890. M. F. Chilcote, Chairman. G. E. Marshall, Secy. It cost Massachusetts overall,000 to supply and distribute the official ballots at the late election, but. the result of the voting was such that she could have afforded to pay a considerably, larger sum for it. When a Speaker of the House becomes a “Czar,” a “corrupt dictator” and an “odious tyrant,’' siffiply because be insists tlmt “The Congressional Record” shall tell the truth, it lookaas though Czars and dictators and tyrants were what the country needs. The big Republican majority which will be rolled up in the Fourth Codgressional district of Pennsylvania in the special election to naihe a successor to the late William D. Kelly about a week hence will show Speaker Reed that the Party sustains him in his S - "€Wt M 'M>T The American Manufacturer shows that coke in Birmingham is 18,75 to $lO per ton, while the W xWwuuigu v *

. » - I . -it—, ... ■ ► . f-'i -|kjj ton. Coal for forge purpose in England is §3 to $3.12 per ton, while at Pittsburgh it is $1.37£ to $2. We are getting along hand, sornely.: — ! — — “ r “ Resolutions of various posts of the grand army of the repepublic, representing 10,000 ex-soldiers approving and endorsing “An appeal to the of the United States and representatives in Congress by Alvin P. Hovey, President of the service Pension Association of the United States of America” were presented to the attention of Cohgress by the Hon. W. 1). Owen, on Thursday last. The Evansville Journal furnishes this nut for all tariff reformers to'crack. “It is a little queer, but liver stoutest demand for rigidly protective duties comes from the Southern Democracy. They want their t ugar. their- peanuts, their vice and their oranges and tropical fruits nil strongly protected. Tennessee and Georgia want their marble and iron protected; but they are willing to have free trade in the things they do not produce.”

Ex-Senator Powell Clayton, of Arkansas made a speech in Boston last week, in which he advanced a new Southern idea, as follows; “I too ask you to give us your sous, as hostages, but as you gave them to the Territory of Kansas, when the same methods and practices were resorted to then as now to force upon unwilling people the rule of corrupt minorities, and I ask-you for that loyalty which, at all hazards and any cost, will see to it that the Constitution of our country shall not be dishonored or nullified, and that the fountain through which flows all our liberties—the ballot-box —shall be kept pure and undefiled.” The South is sunny and fair and tempting, but bleeding as Kansas bled. Why should not the young men of the North go down and occupy it to perpetuate the liberty of men, just as the free soilers occupied Kansas to block the advance of slavery? Herp is a new Southern idea of great force. The New York Telegraph declares that steel rails went down from $166 per ton in 1867 to $27,50 per ton in 1887. “All on account of protection,” says the war tariff apostle. “If that’s the case, what reduced them $5 more in the same time in free-trade England? They duck Their heads when that shot is fired.” ’Whereat the New York Press insists that there is no ducking of heads, “for our tariff brought down the English price, too. By 1880 our steel rail production had grown to 854,460 tons a year, exceeding Great Britain’s production by 730,000 tons. We became the biggest producer and the biggest market, and ocean freights were $5 a ton. Now we produce over 2,000,000 tons a year, and the price declines with our jmports and the iucrease of our production. Steel rails last twice as loDg as iron rails, and they' were cheap at $25 early last year as iron rails would have been at $3.57.” The meeting of the League of the State on Lincoln s anniversary, the 12th of February, at Indianapolis was a most enthusiastic one, and shows that the spirit and interest of 1888 is still alive and throbbing. Earnest and effective speeches were made by a number of prominent Indiamans. 'The annual address of President Wm. L. Tayloi was well received. “In llqc-Ainhqr, 1886, the Lincoln Lea? gue of Indiana was organized,” he said, “and at that time there were but few scattered organizations throughout the State.” During the year 1887 the organization was brought into shape and in 1888 its wonderful growth* was phenomenal, until the night before election 1.100 clubs had been organized. This remarkable showing means a great force and power for the party, and as many as possible of these clubs should be kept up and the organization continued from campaign to campaign. At this meeting strong resolutions endors-

' mg the administration were adop- ! ted and a complete reorganization etm.ded. The meeting was really the opeuiug of tfrS“cam paigxT of 1890, and all along the line the Republicans must be wide awake, be up aud ready for the work that i 3 before them. ' ' . ■ -