Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — Call for Keener Township Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for Keener Township Convention.

The Republican voters of Keener tp,, are requested to meet in primary mass convention at De Motte school house, on Wednesday May 21, at 2 o’clock p. in., and ■ transact the following business: j 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 repoits of thdirect 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 j meet at Rensselaer, on Thursday May 22nd, 1890. D. E. Fairchild, Chairman. That only genuine Republican morning paper of Chicago, the Inter-n Ocean, has met with so much deserved prosperity during late; years, that last week it removed its quarters into a building of its own, and now has one of the best offices in the city and one of the best located.

Kemmler was not electrocuted last week, after all, as at the last momerit the U. S. court interfered with a writ of habeas corpus, and now the case will have to go before the Federal courts, for examination. Kemmler, himself, is without money or friends but disinterested parties are making the fight against death by electricity on the grounds that ills a cruel method.

The Fowler and Kentland papers now state that the announcement that the times for the senatorial and judicial conventions had been fixed at May 29th was a mistake, as that day had only been thought of, but not settled upon. We are glad to learn this fact, because it would have been iminent- - ly unfair 1 and improper to have neglected to consult the wishes and convenience of Jasper county in this important matter. And furthermore we are glad the matter is still open for discussion and settlement, for we hope some later period for holding these conventions Still be selected. In fact, we are much disposed to believe that these conventions should not be called until after the calls for the state andjcongressional conventions are issued, thus allowing an opportunity for the people to choose delegates to these conventions at one and the same .time. The convenience of the masses of the people should be consulted in these matters, to the end that they be not called upon to devote too much of their time to attending conventions. The tariff reformers who are always reiterating that the tariff is a tax, and paid by the consumers are requested to give their attention to this extract from the Birmingham, England, Post, a free trade organ, in reference to the McKinley, tariff bill: The bill has yet to pass the ordeal of Democratic criticism, but

as the Democrats are iri a minority they are not likely to effect any father material modification in it; and if the measure ever becomes a law, which many persons are inclined to doubt, the maximum relief which it can give to English steel-rail producers will not much exceed $4. or 16s. per ton. * * * In other lines our position is likely to be worse under the new bill than under the old one, our manufacturers of woolens, worsteds, carpets, etc., can hardly fail to suffer severely under the augmented duties recommended by the ways and means committee. The points in this quotation that deserve special notice, are that the Post plainly acknowledges that the proposed reduction of the tariff on steel-rails will be a “relief” to the Eugli-h tnalrnfacturc', while the increase'of the.duty o:i woolen goods w ill add to the burdens* of the Britons. The American freetraders may deceive themselves, perhaps, with the doctrine that the consumers pay the tariff, but the foreign manufacturers know very .well that the doctrine is not true.