Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — Call for State Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call for State Convention.

The Republicans of Indiana, and all 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 com. posed 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. Total number of votes, 1,430; neeessary 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. / - John K. Gowdy, Chairman. Frank M. Millikan, Sec. James G. Blaine is no sucker; he tells the party that it is its first duty to elect Harrison and Reid, and he proposes to help them do ib

The sympathy of the whole nation has gone oat to Mr, and Mrs. Blaine in their great affliction in the death of their oldest surviving son, Emmons Blaine. It is the. third death among their .children within the last two or three years Judge William Johnson.of Porter County, the Republican nominee for Congressman, is a most excellent, honorable and v popular man. There is no bitterness anywhere, following his nomination. He will receive the united support of all Republicans, and be triumphantly elected, we have no do u b

jOur Democratic friends who are taking comfort from the absence of wild enthusiasm among the Republicans over the ticket, should bear iu mind that June enthusiasm will have very little to do with settling the November cohtest. Cool, calm, hard votes will do the business; and Reid and Harrison will have a majority of them.

Although Mr. Gilman did not get the nomination at Logansport last Thursday, we know that he feels just as good as though he had got it; and he will work just as hard and just as cheerfully for the election of the nominee as though it had been himself. Considering that he was not a candidate in the ordinary sense of the term and what support he received was given to hint unsought and, in fact, almost against his will, he made a very creditable showing at the convention. The '"two counties where he is best known gave him their solid vote, and had he chosen to have made an active personal canvass of the district; as did his two competitors, he would certainly have had a mucli larger vote and have taken enough from Judge Johnson to have prevented* that gentleman’s nomination on the first ballot; and in that case many of Landis’ votes would have gone to Gilman, fend he would have race^.-andy-beaten him and received the nomination. There was a strong cur-, rent of feeling in Mr. Gilman’s* favor in nearly all parts of the district, and which wouldhave shown itself strongly had more than one ballot teen required.

The great thing to be pressed home on every Republican is the *fa£t that a victory of the Democracy this fall would in all probability give that party control of both branches of Congress as well as the Presidency. It would pat them in complete control and in e%. position to give the country Democratic rule in all that the name implies. It is this state of affairs which should speedily convert every lukewarm or indifferent Republican into an enthusiastic determined worker. ■

In a write up of the Indiana delegation in congress Hon. Dan McDonald says in his Plymouth Democrat: “D. H. Patton, of Remington, representing the tenth district, is a Kentuckian by birth, now 55 yeara old. He was a soldier during the late war, attaining the rank of colonel. He studied medicine and graduated at the Chicago Medical College. He never held any political office until elected to the present congress over Wm. D. Owen, Republican. He is a large man, long, full beard, nearly gray, wears glasses, is industrious and careful in discharge of his duties, and) looks carefully after thelntereste of bis constituenta —Remington. Press. Remarkable information, truly. And how It will delight thediearts of his constituents to know that the transplanted Kentucky statesman’s fame is no now longer confined to the limits of the 10th district, How wonderful the adaeivements of a man who attains to the great dktinction of being described in the Plymouth Democrat as “A large man, long, [man. or beard?] full beard, nearly gray,, wears glasses.” Verily,, if Mr.. Fktton’s career of greatness keeps on for another session, “Hon.. Dan McDonald” may vouchsafe to teß his readers that he has an incipient bald spot located directly over the hardest worked portion offhis gray matter, or perchance that his left foot is afflicted by corns He is 55 years old, too! Now that is something new, even to us who know him best and admire him most Last year he was only 54

Wonders will never cease! “Industrious and) careful in the discharge of hjs duties.” Yea again and verily ; for in addition to drawing hi% salary every month, he has to “look cauefullv after the interests of his constituents*” as represented by the pension'bill in favor of the wealthy retired! Confederate gentlemaa who was “civilian foreman, _ p£. taMklayere:. .cwCft .. 8.. Military Railroad at $125» per month”’ for 15 long and bloody min the after his service in the Confederate army hid terminated.