Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — Republican County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican County Convention.

The Republicans of Jasper couflty, who will be legally entitled to vote at the general election of Nov. 6, 1894, are requested to mee in precinct mass convention on SATURDAY, MARCH I7tli, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. m . to elect delegates and alternate delegates to represent the precinct or township at the Republican County Nominating Convention, herein called. The number of such delegates and alternate delegates, apportioned on the basis of one delegate for each 15 votes, or fraction of five or over, cast for Benjamin Harrison in 1892, is for the several townships and precincts as follows:

Hanging Grove 4 delegates. (jhllam. 5 delegates. Walker 6 delegates. Barkley, East 4 delegates. Barkley, West 4 delegates. Marion, 50uth...... 6 delegates. Marion, East. 8 delegates. Marion, West ,11 delegates. Jordan 8 delegates. Newton 4 delegates. Keener . 5 delegates. Kankakee............ 3 delegates. Wheatfield 5 delegates. Carpenter, South... 8 delegates. Carpenter, East..... 7 delegates. Carpenter, West.... 6 delegates. Milroy 2 delegates. Upiou - 5 delegates. The places of meeting for the above precinct mass conventions shall be the.usual voting places, exthe following: Marion, South, the Town Hall. Marion, East, Court Room. Marion West, Court Room. Carpenter, South, Exchange Hall. Carpenter, East, Town Hall. Carpenter, West, Exchange Hall. COUNTY CONVENTION. The delegates elected as above provided, will meet in the Court House in Rensselaer, on MONDAY, MARCH 19th, 1894, at one o’clock at. to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. 6, 1894, as follows: County Clerk. Auditor. -—7— — ■ c ■ County Treasurer. County Sheriff. County Surveyor. County Coroner. Commissioner, Ist District. Commissioner, 2nd District. Commissioner, 3rd District. Also to elect 9 delegates and 9 alternate delegates to represent the county at the State convention. -I,'! ; By order of the Jasper county Republican Committee. Thos. J. McCoy, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.

The name of Dexter R. Jones, of Carpenter Ip., will probably be presented to the Republican convention as a candidate for commissioner for the third district. Mr. Jones is an old settler and a man of excellent judgement in financial affairs and would make a good ommissioner.

John W. Coo|i?, who rail on the republican ticket in 1892 for Auditor of state, is again a candidate foF'the nomination. In the last campaign he visited every county forty speeches in English and German. He was the main reliance of the state committee for statistical work pertaining to the financial issues of the campaign and he did a prodigious amount of work. All other things being equal, the men who thus devoted their time and money to the campaign as the standard bearers of their party in a year of general defeat should have a chance to try their mettle in a race that promises success.

We are glad tho Supreme Court sustained the fee and salary bill, for faulty as it is it is better than the former system. But it needs considerable amending it will work equally. Compare, for instance, the salaries of auditor and recorder in this county with the same officials in Carroll county. Here the recorder gets S9OO and in Carroll $1,200, yet we are confident that the recorder in this county, where real-estate trade is always lively, does easily twice as much work as in the slow-going Carroll, and gets a good deal less for doing it. The auditor here gets $1,500 and in Carroll $2,200. Yet with all the ditch work the auditor has in this county, in addition to the more regular duties of his office, we have no doubt but that there is considerably more work fur the auditor in this county than in Carroll. These inequalities ought, so far as possible, to be corrected.

And now comes the American Tin Plate company at Eiwood and decides to double its capacity an,d run night and day. This too, in face of the fact that the Wilson bill has passed the House and will pass the Senate. What will the republican press of the state say now, poor things?—Democratic Sentinel. They say, among other things, that the Democratic papers are so keenly conscious that it was the fear of their free trade that closed the factories of the country that they fairly tumble over one another in their eagerness to announce the fact when one of them decides to resume business, whereas if a hundred factories closed their doors, wild horses could not draw from these same Democratic papers any admission of the fact. The Republican papers will say further, that in chronicling the resumption of operations by the American Tin Plate Company the Democratic papers admit that there are such things in this country as tin plate factories, and that in making their statements to - the contrary, during the campaign of 1892* they were willfully lying, and deceiving people. The Republican papers will say also, and say truly, that the American Tin-plate company resumes operations with the full understanding that if the Wilson bill becomes a law the wages of its operatives will have to be cut at least 50 per cent, as otherwise the works can not compete with the cheap labor in the Welsh tin factories.

The American tin-plate company at Eiwood even with the Wilson bill hanging over it, has decided to double its capacity and night and day. The Indianapolis Journal says: “They have fouud this action necessary to enable them to fill all the orders as they come in.” Here is evidently oue of our ruined industries that has certainly neglected to read the Republican literature of the day. The above is from the De.phi Citizen and is echoed by the Democratic Sentinel. It will be noticed in the first place that the Democratic press now concedes that tin plate can be and is made in this country. A fact which they persisted in denying ail through the campaign of 1892, and which even Cleveland had the gall to deny after he had been inaugurated. Whether the managers of this industry have neglected to read Republican literature, or not,

they certainly have common business sense enough to know that they will not be able to pay Mcv Kinley wages if the Wilson bill becomes a law. The following from the Indianapolis Journal, of last Saturday, shows that the Tinplate works managers understand the industrial situation, wherever They acquired their knowledge! The Journal published a dispatch from Elwood a few days ago stating that the board of directors of the American Tin-plate Company has decided to double the capacity of the factory, which now employs 350 persons and turns out three thousand boxes of tin per week. The statement is true, but is misleading in that ihomits any reference to wages. The Journal learns from one of the directors that it is their intention to greatly enlarge the capacity of the factory and increase the number of their employes, but that their schedule of wages will be fixed with direct reference to the Wilson bill. If that measure should fail to pass they will continue to pay the old rate of wages, but if it becomes law the wages of every employee will be reduced at least 50 per cent. The directors do not wish it understood that they have any intention of manu facturing tin at the old rate of wages if the W ilson bill passes.