Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS. [ARTICLE]

TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

Gail For County Convention. “ In accorclanc; ■ with the provisiorj: of an order of the Jasper County lli-publican Central Committee, the Republican voters of Jasper county are requested to meet in primary and delegate conventions, at the times and places and in the manner set forth below, to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of November 4, 1890, for the following offices: One Clerk of the Circuit Court. One County A uditor. One County Treasurer. One County Sheriff One County Surveyor. One 'County Coroner. One County Commissioner for the First District. One County Commissioner for the Third District. A county delegate convention will be held at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on Thursday, May 22. 1890, at one o’clock P. M., at which convention the number of delegates to which the various townships are respectively entitled, being made on the apportionment of one delegate to every fifteen votes cast for Governor Hovoy, in 1888, and one additional delegate for each fraction of fifteen -Such votes of eight votes or more, shall he as follows: Naim's us - No. of No. of Towushlri.-v ■ 1 : Volos Oeleg-ates. Barkley 164- 11 Carpenter, .-. 315 21 Gil lam 109 7 Hanging Grove, r. ■ 71 5 Jordan .... 67 4 Kankakpe........ 51 3 Keener 103 7 Marion, 371 25 Mi1r0y........... 34 2 Newt0n.......... 65 4 Union .98 7 Walker, 86 6 Wheatfield.... ... 69 ~ 5 The Republican Central Committee of each township shall, mi or before April 15, 1890, divide their respective townships into as many convention districts as tlie township has. delegates in the above table, all districts to contain, as nearly as may l> \ an equal number of Republican voters, and the boundaries of these districts shall be d( scrib. d and places of meeting ap|><fiate iin f ach. And the Town-, shin Cofnmitfik* slmli also appoint ilistriefs, a dude/a mi Inspector and u Clerk, who wi Ihave general charge and sypervisiofi of the,conventions in their respective districts. WeclhSviiay, l ir.y 21st, 1890, lit five am ei: p. M., the Republican voters "l ui these, (to be u ntibn- districts, mi .ju primary ina-k xuiii transact the following business:

1 Elect by TOTrjoTity- vfltff delegate to represent the district at! the fount v convention of May 22, 1890. 2. Cast and count a direct nominating ballot for a county ticket. 3. Prepare two reports of the direct vote cast; one of the reports to be given in care of the delegate to be brought by him to the County Convention, and one to be transmitted, by the most direct means, to the Chairman of the County Central Committee, at Rensselaer. The delegates so selected, will meet as above stated, in convention at the court house in Rensselaer, on Thursday, May 22, 1890 and having collated the reports of the nominating votes cast at the primary district convetitions, if any person voted for as a candidate foi any office shall be found to have a majority of all the votes cast for all the candidates for such office, he shall be declared nominated; but if for any office, no person has received a majority of all the votes cast for candidates for such office, the convection shall proceed, in such manner and form as may be agreed upon, to Dominate candidates for such offices. All known Republicans who will be legal voters at the November, 1890, election, and all other such voters who desire to act with the Republicans during the present campaign, will be entitled to take part in the primary mass conventions, above described. Done by order of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee. Mordecai F. Chiloote, Chairman. Agnus H. Hopumb, Secretary.