Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — The District Conventions. [ARTICLE]

The District Conventions.

The; Dem< cratic Judges of the Supreme Court;disseut. <1 from, the decision against thy Mormon Church.' .Why?' The free traders -tell farmers to raise more corn and wheat so it will be-cheaper. *Free traders always want cheapness, cheap frod, cheap k. clothing and CHE AC MEN-,; The cheaper die men (lower wages) the poorer th-y are. ~■■ Public meetings are being held indifferent places in En-..b.;:d to form associations to bended opposition To legislation so hostile to trade as the new American Tariff Bi!!. Free Traders id America and England work together. The Democrats say the tariff is added fodhc price of the article purchased. How about the tariff on corn, wheat, oats, ’barley, hay, potato', s &c,'? The SlcKiuley bill increases the tariff on all of those. Thcsfdriners know protection protects. ...them. .' —C.. Gen. Lew Wallace, havingxeached the age of 62, is going to file his plaim for the pension of $8 a month, which he is entitled to as a veteran of the Mexican war, and turn it over

to an Indiana orphan asylum. He s.iys the treasury is full and the orphans are poor. MoaaHaummMMHßHMeatronmNKa : The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Jhilway Co., lias filed another mortgage for twelve uriilions onthat roach It will be reeoixled in every eonnty the road j extends through. Another DemI erratic howl will go np because mortgages are increasing by the million-!! We are on with the new campaign be fore we are fairly off with the old.. The call for the county convention goes out this week but those for the district conventions take its place. Our new announcement column also has a starter, in the card of W. W. Gilman, an estimable and well known gentle man, of Newton county, who is willing to serve the people in the capacity of state senator.

In a very short time the census enumerator will be making his rounds. He has a long list of questions to ask every citizen. He will want to know all about you and your family, your possessions, your income and even your physical ailments. An arduous task is before him, but it is hoped that he will be able to do his duty. Special notice has been sent out by General Porter, supervisor of the census, cautioning all enumerators against allowing themselves to be influenced in favor of giving exaggerated enumeration in favor of certain towns, and that exact, fair and just reports be made in all cases.

The oft repeated comparison between prices in this country and out of it by free trade pervertors was amply exposed by a New York man who was of an inquisitive turn of mind: A farmer went to Ogdensburgh and got a hoe for 75 cents, and went over to the Canadian side and bought one for 50 cents, and compared them, and he found that the Canadian hoe had a handle with cross-grain; that the hoe-blade itself was imperfect, and would not stand a week’s use; and he goes to a hardware dealer at Ogdensburgh and asked’ him, “M hy don’t you sell these 50 cent hoes?” “Well,” says the dealer, ‘ ‘we sell hoes like that at 40 cent apiece; but the American farmer won’t use them. We have a lot of them on hand now, and we will have to,give them away, as we cannot sell them.

Thc American newspaper directory for 1890 show’s that Indiana ranks ninth in the number of newspaper publications, ranking next to cultured Massachusetts, which has thirty-four more. New York ranks first with 1,778, Illinois next with 1,309, followed by Pennsylvania with 1,281, Ohio with 1,043, Kansas with 807, lowa with 799, Missouri with 756, Massachusetts with 655, and Indiana with 651. Notwithstanding this immense educational power in this state gold bricks find an occasional market and “soap” a ready sale, With 651 papers to choose from there is no excuse for any Indiana man not taking a paper, and .with thethe improvement and enterprise of' the Republican there is. no reason why every citizen of Jasper county should not become a subscriber. Send in you names.

Messrs. Chilcote, Johnson and I Pfrimmer, respective chairmen of i Jasper, Benton and Newton cuuni ty Republican central committees, ! met in Lafaj’ette last Wednesday, Mid arranged times and places for I the seuatoriaij judicial and representative conventions. All will Ibe held on the same day, June 18. The J udicial convention to be at Rensselaer, the senatorial at Fowler and the Representative at Goodland. The basis of representation is one delegate to every 75 Republican voters. This gives Benton county 22 delegates, .Jasper 21 and Newton 17. The senatorial and judicial conventions will thus consist of 60 delegates, each, and the representative convention, being for Jasper and Newton counties only, of 38 delegates. The delegates to these various conventions are to be chosen not later than June 14th. The official call appears in this week’s issue of this paper. /r ; 4 ■