Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — Congressional Convention. [ARTICLE]

Congressional Convention.

The republicans of the Tenth Congressional District will meet in delegate convention at Loganport. - ===- ■ ' r Thursday, June 16th, at 1 p. in. tot the purpose of nominating a candidate for representative in Congress. * The basis of representation will be the same as for the State convention, which will entitle the counties to delegates as follows: Carroll. .5... 15 Newton 7 Cass... ....22 Porter.l2 Fulton.... .12 Pulaski. 7 Jasper. 8 White. .11 Lake .13

CHABLEY HARLEY,

CL Rep. Com. 10th Dist

Imported cheap labor is less dangerous and injurious to our h ome labor than imported pheap labor products, but both must be held in check by governmental protection in the form of immigration laws and McKinley laws, or our labor will be overwhelmed and degraded. Hon. W. D. Owen has received many favorable mentions, in various parts of the state, as a gqod man for the Republicans to nominate for Governor. Mr. Owen is not in the race, but had he chosen to have made a canvass for the nomination he would have been a hard man to beat. Not a single man on the People’s ticket paid a cent for announcement* or spent a moment of time electioneering as a candidate for the office for which he was nominated. —Peoples Pilot For the very good reason, probably, that they knew the nominations were not worth spending money or time to secure.

For Congressman the good of the party demands an available man before the election; and the good of the country demands an able and faithful one, after it Frankly and fairly considered, what man in the district better fulfills those conditions, all circum-, st an ces consider ed, th at Hon. W W. Gillam, of Newton county?

Protection is now essential almost entirely for labor. In the days of our “infant industries” it w as needed against overwhelming f oreign capital. Now we have the c apital to compete with any country on earth at the same rate or s tandard of wages, but it is only c razy or vicious free trade Democrat§ who want that kind of competition. There are almost double as many protectionists as free-trad-ers in class at Yale College this year. The last four years shows a steady increase in this direction. The census for those years show: r ■4‘B9 ‘9O ‘9l ‘92 Free trade 55 40 49 42 i Protection..... 43 36 70 83 Hon. W. D; Owen’s late trouble with Assistant Secretary Nettleton resulted not pnljLin Mr. Owen’s complete vindication from all the charges made against him, as everybody in the 10th Indiana District knew that it would, but also in . the transferring of Mr. Nettleton to another department, where his unjustifiable jealously of Mr. Owen could not interfere with the latter’s rightful duties and prerogatives, as Commissioner of Immigration.