Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS. [ARTICLE]

TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

—TT7- ' t t ■ Call For County Convention. la accordant* the provisions of an order of the Jasper County IT publican Central Committee,- the Republican' voters of Jasper--county arc requested to meet in primary and delegate'-con-ventions, at flic- times, and pieces and in the m-.nur-r et Wth low, to nominate candidates to bo voted for at the election of November 4. 1890, for the foliowi ice : One Clerk of the Circuit Court. One County Auditor. "One County Treasurer. One County Sherili One Countv Surveyor. One County Coroner. One County Commissioner for the First District. One County Commissioner for the Third District. A county delegate convention will beheld at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on Thursday May 22, 1890, at one o’clock 1\ M., at-which conventiomtha 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 Howy, in 1888, und one additional delegate for each fraction of fifteen such votes of eight votes or more, shall be as follows: If amps of No. of* No of' Townships, Votes- Pclegalcs. Purliley 104 — 11 — Carpenter 315 Gillaui 109 7 Hanging Grove.. . 71 5 Jordan. 07 4 Kankakee 51 3, Keener. 103 7 Marion,., 371 25 Milroy 34 2 Newton 05 4 Union 98 7 Walker... 86 6 Wheatfield 09 5 The Republican Central Committee of each . township shall, on or before April 15, 1890, divide their respective townships into as many convention districts as the township has delegates in the above table, all districts to contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of Republican voters, and the boundaries of these districts shall be described and places of meeting appointed in each. And the Township Committee shall also appoint for each of the,so convention districts, a Judge, an Inspector and a Clerk, who will have general charge ana Trupur-visTcrn oi ihh co 11 vtiii itdxi s in their respective districts. Wednesday, May 21st, 1890, at five o’clock P. M., the Republican voters' of each'of these, (to be designated) convection districts, p'rfn'iltry mass conventions and transact the 1. Elect by majority vote one delegate to represent the district at the county convention of May 22, 1890. H

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 by brought by him to the County Convention, and one to be transmitted, by the and one ect means, to the Chairman of the County Central Committee, at Rensselaer.

The delegates so selected, wil meet as above stated, in convention at the court house in Rensseaer, on Thursday, May 22, 1890 and having collated the reports of the nominating votes cast at the primary district conventions, 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 convention shall proceed, in such manner and form as may be agreed upon, to nominate candidates for such offices.

All known Republicans who will be legal voters at the November, 1890, election, atid 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 Com-, mittee. Mordecai F. Chi lcpte, Chairman. Arthur H. Hopkins, Secretary.