Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — Republican Bounty Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican Bounty Convention.

The Republicans of Jasper county, who will be legally entitled to vote at the general election of Nov. b, 1894, are requested tomee ■frrprecinct rmips cotrventtoncm SATURDAY, MARCH 17th, 1894, at 2 o’clock'"?. M. to elect delegates and alternate delegates to represent the precinct or township at the Republican County Nominating Convention, herein called. The number of suck 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:

Ilangiug Grove..... 4 delegates. Gillam 5 delegates. Walker 6 delegates. Barkley, East 4 delegates. Barkley, West 4 delegates. Marion, South G delegates. Marion, East 8 delegates. Marion, We5t....... 11 delegates. Jordan 3 delegates. Newton.... .* 4 delegates. Keener 5 delegates. Kankakee. 3 delegates. Wheatheld 5 delegates. Carpenter, South... 8 delegates. Carpenter, East 7 delegates. Carpenter, West.... 6 delegates. Milroy 2 delegates. Union.... 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, room over Allman's A SVetz’ hardware store. Oavpauter, East. Town I T I. Carpenter, West, Eschar;, i Hall.

CO UN Tl C Zli 7BN "' ' . The delegates elected is above provided, will meet ia ie Court House in Rensselaer, cu DIOS DAY, MARCH 19th, 1894, at one o’clock P. M. to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. 6, 1894, as follows: County Clerk. County Auditor. County Treasurer. County Sheriff. County Surveyor. "OoufityUoroner. 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 . By order of the Jasper county Republican Committee. Thos. J. McCoy, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.

Some mills are Parting and the fact is paraded by the democratic press which however neglects to state that they start with a wage reduction. Congressman Stevens o! North Audover, Mass., voted for the Wilson bill and hue just started his woolen mills at a reduction of w ages of 15 per cent. Have not the wage earners learned by sal experience that the free trade fight was a fight againfct labor.

R. A. Brown,’ T editdr of the Franklin Republican and president of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association, is a candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court. Mr. Brown' Stands very high in the estinfation hf his brother editors throughout the state, and not less so among other -people where he is known. He will be no load on the ticket if he gets the nomination, in fact quite the contrary, he will be a help to it. He is indeed a fine fellow in every respect. He is popular with all classes, energetic,, well educated, a gentleman and a good man.

At Chicago last week, after the big storm, the Illinois Central R. R. company advertised for 300 men to shovel snow. The next morniug there were 1,000 men on hand, and so anxious were the poor fellows to earn a little money even at that hard and unpleasant labor, that the railroad had to call the police to prevent them fighting among themselves for the work. Before the success of the free trade party closed the work shops and factories, it was almost impossible to drum up half so many men as were wanted, for that kind of a job, let alone three times as many, as is the case now.

Cleveland, having been twice knocked clear out in his fight with Hill over the vacant Supreme judgeship, in the successive rejection of Hornblowc-r and Peckham, on Monday sent in the name of Senator White, of Louisiana, and the nomination was confirmed on sight. Cleveland has none too much political sense, nor any other kind for that matter, but he does know enough to know that if he wants to make dead sure of having his nominations confirmed by the Senate he has~ only to nominate a senator, or a Confederate brigadier. The Senate as at present constituted will never go back on a member of either of those classes.

Neighbor McEwen has been redheaded right along, for several weeks past, in regard to the A. P. A. He not only parades the fact that some of their lecturers have been arrested charged with offenses, (arrested, not covieted, mind you) as a conclusive evidence of their wickedness, but also when 'they are made the victims of lawless mobs, and are forcibly denied their constitutional right of free speech. Our neighbor probably used to record the facts that abolition advocates had been made the victims of mobs, as conclusive evidence of the wickedness of the abolitionists, and he now applies the same principles to A. P. A lecturers.

General Harrison never made an address that did not contain some statement which was so original or so practical as to attract attention. His brief address at Indianapolis of Tuesday evening of last week was no exception, as this paragraph shows: It is generally accepted now as a right princip e that our city councils, our county commissioners, our state legislature should all legislate to create work for the unemployed. You may read in the same newspaper on one page an appeal to a city council to appropriate money to inaugurate a public work to give employment to the unemployed, and on another an article favoring a system of tariff reduction that closes American mills. The Republican theory has been all along that it was right to so legislate as to give work, employment, comfort to the American workman. We believe that the national government has a duty in this respect as well as the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners; and thaf that duty is bent discharged by so legislating that American mills can keep their fires going.

Two of Cleveland’s recent characteristic appointments are General Joe Shelby for U. S. Marshal of Missouri, and Alexander W. Terrell, of Texas, as Minister to Turkey. Shelby, was oue of the worst of the Confederate “border ruffians,” of the-war, who butchered defeusless prisoners and noncombatants, and who wrote a letter,

still in existence, rejoicing over the massacre, by his men, of a number of “Yankee” schoolmasters, and their pupils, children of negro refugees. Terrell’s principal claim to distinction is a poenahe wrqte eul.ogkdng Wil'kes Booth and his murder of President Lincoln. It is no wonder that the malignant Gresham should complete the record of his infamy by refusing to any longer appear among the list of Union soldier pensioners. Men who got hit by Rebel Bullets, even at suck dong range as Gresham did, are in mighty bad repute with this administration, and Gresham is only being consistent with the principles and practices of the crowd he trains with in refusing to longer accept his pension.