Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — WE GET THE CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

WE GET THE CONVENTION

The Republican Congressional Committee for the Tenth District, met at liojganspprl yesterday and fixed the time and place for holding the Congressional nominating convention. The time selected was Thursday, August -Bth and Rensselaer was chosen as tne place for holding it. Much credit for this just recognition of the claims of Jasper County is dun to our comm it teem at?, M. F. Chilcotc > who attended the meeting at Loganspovt and ably advocated the claim 3 of Rensselaer. The official call for the Republican state convention, appears on one of our inside pages. The date is Sept. 10. i Indiana is the only strictly Northern hat_—h as —haT__a series of Democratic Legislatures. It is the only one in which the public debt has been increasing for a similar peroid. The Hale amendment to the McKinley bill embodies the Blaine proposition, and ,if the bill m its present shape be passed, and it probably will, we will have both revision and reciprocity. If it were not for the obstructive tactics of the Democrats the Senate could dispose of all the important bills on ite calendar inside of a week. That is to say, the session is being prolonged and the public business delayed simply to gratify a spirit of partisan spite And obstinacy.

These are several adequate reasons why the country did not adopt ihe reciprocity project proposed toy President Arthur in the last year of his administration. The chief reason is that Democratic party was in power at that time in the popular branch of Congress. This time .however, the conditions * aye more favorable for reciprocity. The Republican party has held A safe and consistent position on the silver question, and can go before the people and defend it without npology. It has redeemed its promise and restored public confidence in the security and stability of the country’s finances. II can go into its next national convention with the full consciousness of having done its duty, and will revive due credit therefore. „

The Democrats tried to carry | the country a few yearn ago on the { cry that there was a fearful and wonderful surplus in the National Treasury—and they miscalculated the amount of superfluous money about $113,000,000 a year. Now they propose to capture the nation on the outcry that the surplus is gone. But they have miscalculated $ L 00,000,000 or so a gain. One of the troubles of the Democrats is there are so many things they do not know. Democratic conventions, taking the wrong cue from the hypocritical attitude of their Representatives in Congress, have, of late, fallen into the habit of declaring in favor of free coinage of silver, j This thing is likely to keep on until the national convention assembles in 1892, and then we shall have the beautiful spectacle of another sudden Democratic flop. »So long as N. York, Connecticut, and Nevrdersey are doubtedstates, and so long as Cleveland and Hill are the only presidential timber in sight, free coinage cannot get into a Democratic national platform.