Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTIONS.

The Republicans of the Tenth Congressional District will meet in delegate convention at Logansport, Thursday, January 18, 1894, at the court house at 1:30 p.m., for the purpose of electing a member of the state central committee. The basis of representation will be one delegate and one alternate delegate for every one hundreds votes and for each additional fifty or fractional one hundred votes over fifty cast for first elector on Republican ticket in 1892. The several counties will be entitled to representation as follows: Carroll 22 Cass 35 Fulton 21 Jasper 14 Lake 30 Newton ......12 Porter 22 Pulaski .10 "White .18 Charley Harley, Chairman Tenth Congressional District.

Partisanship and not patriotism is now, as always, the ruling principle in the Democratic party. Had it not been so, Congress ■would weeks ago, have repudiated and scathingly condemned (Cleveland .. and Gresham’s infamous Hawaiian policy. Pat O’Rourke, who is a Simon Pure Democrat, boasted to Mrs. O’Rouke when he lost his place the other day: “I’m not losin’ only one half as much as I would under Mr. Harrison and Republicans. I was only gettin’ $1 per day and a year ago I was gittin’ $2.” Mrs. O’Rourke is trying to see the benefits of being a •‘Dimocrat” from Pat’s standpoint, but, being a woman finds it difficult, — Inter Ocean.

The newly elected members of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee should remember the meeting at the court house, next Saturday afternoon, to complete the’ organization,by the ejection of a chairman, vice-chair-man, secretary and treasurer. It is of the utmost importance that this duty be done carefully and ■well. Other important matters will also come up for consideration, and every committeeman in the county should be present, without fail. Hon. W. D. Owen, the ablest public man in northern Indiana, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State, this year. He can count not only on the solid but on the enthusiastic support of the Tenth District. The candidate for secretary of state will lead the state ticket this year, and in 189 G, the candidate for Governor. William D. Owen’s name would look mighty well -.right up at the top, in both cases. Although we do not know that he has any aspirations for Claude Matthews’ job.

So far. as heard from the Republicans of Jasper county i attended to the business of township organizations in good shape, last Saturday. As .reports have not been received from a number of townships, we will defer publishing names of township committees and Logansport delegates, until next week. The newly elected members of the county central committee are requested to bring in full reports of the proceedings of their township conventions, to the committee meeting, at the court house, next Saturday after* noon. '