Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — For Sheriff. [ARTICLE]

For Sheriff.

Philip Blue. We are authorized to announce to the voters of Jasper county that Philip Blue, of Marion township, is a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Jasper county, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating conventions. For County SurveyorCbables L. Headley. We are authorized to announce the name of Chas. L. Headley, of Carpenter tp., as a candidate for the office of Couuty Surveyor. Subject to the decision of the Republican nominating conventions. i i James 0. Thbawls. i We are authorized to announce the name of James C. Thrawls, of Mai ion tp., as a candidate for reelection to the office of county surveyor. Subject to the decision of the Republican nominating conventions.

In the Ninth congressional district two counties have selected their delegates to the congressional convention. In Boon-, the delegates ere’all for Harvey M. La Toilette, the present State Superintendent* while in Howard, eight deletes are in favor of the renomination of the present incumJudge Waugh. It begins foTddk as though Bro. Cheadle had had his day.

The Republican town ticket will be nominated, next Monday evening. District primary meetings, will be held in a dozen different places, after the manner adopted for the township nomination.-, and to be adopted for tuo county ticket; and at each meeting a direct vote will be taken for a tov, u ticket, and one delegate be elected. The primaries will be held at 7. o’clock. At 8:30 the same evening, the elected delegates will meet at the court house, and count the primary vote and -complete —the • nominations not made at the primaries. The various places of meeting are described in a circular that has already been issued. iwwhmi ■» maMrinwmwn r The people “asked for bread” and the Democratic legislature “gave them a stone” on the school book matter. There is mighty p oor educational sustenance in the stone aforesaid, still if it will serve the purpose of knocking out high; prices for school books, and ultimate ly pave the way for free books in the schools, it will have served a good purpose and the Bulldozers wilf hftve “budded wiser than they knew.” At the same time it should not be forgotten that had the Bulldozers permitted the school book law to have been amended in accordance with the intelligent and statesmanlike suggestions of the Republicans, it would have accomplished all and more than all of the good results the present law can ever be hoped to accomplish, and not have compelled the schools of the state to have suffered from tlie injury of using antiquated and inferior text-books for five or s ix years, as the present will do.