Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — THE STATE COMMITTEE’S CALL. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE COMMITTEE’S CALL.

The president’s message is a large and labored prod action, in every paragraph and line of which sticks out the ponderous, egotistical, bn 11. headed and overbearing spirit of. the man who is now, to all intents and purposes, not the prescient but the absolute dictator of this once constitutionally governed country. In regard to the Hawaiian matter he kimply says in effect to Congress, “What’s good for you, you’ll be told; but I, the great infallible, know that I am right and no amount' of evidence can change my opinion to the contrary.” Be tells Congress that the ways and means committee has decided m favor of an income tax on corporations before the committee itself ever heard of the proposition. The great freetrade panic which is running the nation in debt eight or ten million ■dollars every month; which is Obnsumihg the accumulated wealth of the people at a faster rate than any war we ever engaged in; and, which is fully as bad as a state of war in the amount of hardship and suffering it is entailing upon onr people; is contemptuously pushed aside by an off-hand allu- ' sion to “the late financial perturbation.” Petroleum V. Nashy’s diplomatic name for the war of the rebellion as “the late on-pleasant-ness,” is not in it in comparison with Grover’s allusion to “the late financial perturbation.”

..... . To the Eepublleans of Indiana.: It has been decided by the Republican State committee that the Republicans in each county of the state, and all others who wish to co-operate with the Republican party, will, on WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6, 1894, meet in mass convention in their respective townships or wards for the transaction of the following business: - First—For the election of precinct committeemen from the several voting precincts in such township or ward. Second—For the election of such number of delegates and alternate delegates to their respective district conventions, to be held on Thursday, the 20th day of January, 1894, as may be apportioned to such township or ward by the Republican county committee, in accordance with this call, unless such county committee in any county shall determine to bold a county mass convention for such purposes, in which case such county mass conventions shall be held on.the said 13th day of January, 1894, and elect' such precinct committeemen, delegates and alternate delegates as herein before provided. \ Notice of such township, ward or mass convention shall be given by the Republican county committee by publication in the Republican press of the county. Ihe precinct committeemen so selected Shall constitute the members of the Republican county cuLijmittee, unless a reduced jbtherefor shall Le th termined upon by the county committee and the same indicated in the notke h«.-rein.provided for, in which case the precinct com- ' miltct men from tho several townships Ar wards so selected shall, as may be thus determined by the county committee, elect, on or I’hhhi the loth day ot January, -* * lf> ' OT W ■ - -*■ .

—— s : to- represent uwich tewuship or ward on such county committee. The members of the county committee so chosen will meet at the cttunty seat of their respective counties on Saturday, Jan. 13, 1894, at such place and hour on said day as may be determined and published by the county committee, for the purpose of organization, by the election from their number or otherwise a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and a treasurer. We suggest that the officers of such committee so elected, together with three or more persons to be appointed by the chairman, shall constitute the executive committee.

The bash of representation to such district convention shall be: One delegate and one alternate delegate for every one hundred and for each additional fifty or fractional one hundred votes over fifty cast for the first Republican elector at the November election, 1892, the counties to be entitled to the aggregate number of delegates and alternates as stated below. (Jasper county 14 delegates) Such aggregate in the respective counties will be apportioned by the county committee to the several townships or yards as nearly as may be upon the basis of the Republican votes cast in such township or ward for said elector as aforesaid such apportionment to be published in the notice herein before provided for. i The delegates so chosen to their respective district conventions will meet on Thursday, Jan. 18,1894, at the place designated, for the purpose of electing a member of the State committee from such district, the hall and hour of such meeting to be fixed and published by the state committee in their respective districts. The members of the state committee so elected will meet at.the Republican committee rooms, on Thursday, January 25, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. m. of said-day for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization. -, ■ ; We urgently request that the Republicans in the state attend these meetings and assist in the selection of the best men possible for these various places. This call is issued pursuant to an order of the Republican State committee us Indiana, at a meeting held in Indianapolis, Nov. 21, 1893. John K. Gowdi, Chairman. Frank M. Millikan, Secretary.