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

Call for State Convention.

'4 .The Republicans of Indiana, and alt others who desire to co-operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention in the city of Ft Wayne, on Tuesday, June 28, 1892, at 10 o’clock a. m. for the purpose of adopting a platform and nominating candidates for the various State offices and two Presidential electors at large, to be voted for at the November election, 1892. The. convention will be composed of 1,430 delegates, apportioned among the several counties on the basis of one delegate and one alternate delegate for each 150 votes and each fraction of seventyfive or over cast for Milton S. Trusler for Secretary of State at the November election, 1890, and are as follows: Jasper county being entitled to 8 delegates. X Total number of votes, 1,430; necessary to a choice, 716. Favorable railroad rates for reaching Fort Wayne are assured and ample provision will be made for admission and comfort of each delegate and alternate, and for all Republicans and any others participating. i John K. Go wot, Chairman. Fbank M. Millikan, Sec.

There are several elements that enter into the problem of whom the Republicans should nownominate for congressman, at the Logansport convention, but the chief of these is the question, “Who will make the most available candidate, all things considered?” Any one of the candidates now in the field would, doubtless, make an able, creditable and serviceable member of Congress; and all are good square-toed Republicans, and about the only point left to consider between them is, which will best hold the vote of the party, in the peculiar campaign now confronting us? So far as can now be discerned the candidates before the convention will be Judge Johnston, of Porter county; Editor Landis, of Carroll and Senator Gi Im an, of Newton. Each of these three able and deserving gentlemen appeals strongly to different elements of the party. Judge Johnston to the soldier element, Mr. Landis to the young men and Senator Gilman to the farmers. We will not ask which of these elements is most deserving of the nomination, although, considering the farmers are by far the most numerous element of the district and their business interests by farHhe most important, and they have never, jdyur knowledge, furnished a candidate for Congressman in this district, and they might therefore, well claim the nomination on the grounds that it is now their turn. Rather, however, we well ask, which of these elements will it be to the' best interest of the party to choose a candidate from this year ? While the farmers of Jasper county nor, so far as we know of no other county in the district, have any grounds for complaint of lack of recogo ition in the distribution of county and state legislative offices, there certainly is a widely diffused feeling everywhere among them that the agricultural classes ought to have a larger in the halls of Congress. The farmers feel that there ought tq be more farmers in Congress, and that feeling is natural, just and right One of the most efficacious means the Republican party can adopt to prevent its farmer members from being led away by the fallacious but vigorously promulgated doctrines of the People’s Party, is by nominating -and electing to Congress, large numbers of level-headed, well-informed, practical farmers, of whom no better example can be found in this district than Hon. William W. Gilman, of Newton County.

Senator Gilman was the only man in either House or Senate who voted against both of the new and very vicious state tax laws. He is a tnau who can be trusted to hnnw how to vote in the interests of the people, on very question that comes up for action.