Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1890 — Call for Keener Township Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for Keener Township Convention.

Tlie Republican voters of Keener tp., are requested so meet in primary mass convention at He Motte school house, on Wednesday May 21, at 2 o’clock p. m., and transact the following business: 1. Elect by majority vote, seven (7) delegates to represent the Township at the county convention of May 22nd, 1890. 2. Cast and count a direct nominating ballot for a county ticket.e 3. Prepare two reports of tlidirect vote cast. One for the dele, gates to the county convention The other for the chairman of the County Central Committee at Rensselaer. The delegates so chosen will meet at Rensselaer, on Thursday May 22nd, 1890. _ _ D. E. Fairchild, Chairman. The Fowler Era says that the time for holding the judicial and senatorial conventions has been fixed for May 29th, and that the judicial convention will meet in Fowler and the senatorial in Goodland. Who it was that settled these the important matters, and why it was that, the wishes and conven-, ience of Jasper county were not consulted, the Era does not state, j Not long since the New Albany Tribune offered a reward of SIOO to any one who w’ould show by the figures that there ever was a time under any low-tariff law when the farmer could purchase as much for a bushel of wheat as he can now of the necessaries of life And there was not a calamity shrieker that dared to undertake the Task, The Tribune now agrees to show for a cent that the farmer can, at the present time, get for a bushel of wheat more of tlle liecessaries of life than he could under any low-tariff law we ever had, and no calamity editor or any free-trader has dared to avail himself of the second proposition either. .* The long deferred execution by electricity, or electrocution, as it is beginning to be called, of Keminiriy the Buffalo wife -minder will take place at Auburn, N. Y. some time this w’eek. At just what time no one but the officials know, that being one of the pi'ovisions of the law. This improved and humane method of dealing death to condemned felons has only been i d "TfjgjT struggle. Kemmler will be the first to be executed by this method, although a half dozen or more other murderers are now under sentence in New York and will soon be executed* in the same manner if the Kemmler job is a success. The McKinley Tariff bill is a measure which meets our fullest approbation, even though some of its provisions are the results of compromises between conflicting or seemingly conflicting interests, and we sincerely hope it will pass both hoases and become a law substantially as it has been introduced. It is a faithful embodiment of the principle of protection as advocated by the Republican party, and is a direct fulfillment of the pledges of the national Republican platform, which the people of the country indorsed in the election of President Harrison and of a Republican Congress. The committee, especially Mr. McKinley, deserves the thanks of all protectionists for the ability, patience, care and moderation they have displayed in formulating this bill.