Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — REPUBLICAN EDITORS. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN EDITORS.

Mid-Winter Meeting of the 'State Association. The mid-winter meeting of tho Republican State Editorial Association met at the Denison Hotel, Indianapolis, Thursday evening. About fifty members were present. C, B. Landis, of the Delphi Journal, presided for President Brown 1 who was suffering from a severe cold. The editors were welcomed to Indianapolis by Harry S. New, of tho Indianapolis Journal. The response for the association was by Charles W. Stivers, of tho Liberty Herald. Mr. McMillen, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, spoke briefly. A letter was received from ex-President Harrison, regretting his inability to attend a session of the association because of his Cailifornia trip. The association was invited to call, however, and the invitation was accepted. The attendance at Friday’s session was somewhat larger than that of Thursday evening. Tho libel law received much attention, and it was the unanimous opinion of the members of the association that it ought to be amended. Mr. McMilien. of the Chicago Inter Ocean, related the steps that are being taken by the publishers of Illinois papers to get the law in force in that State amended. The committee appointed to revise the constitution was instructed to provide for a permanent legislative committee. Several papers on trade topics were read and discussed. The association adopted resolutions deploring the financial and industrial disasters which have come upon the land, and hoping for the speedy restoration of that prosperity “which for thirty years under Republican rale our country has enjoyed”; commending the administration of Benjamin Harrison; pointing out that all the disaster that has come was predicted as the inevitable result of the adoption of Democratic policies, and is but its natural sequence; condemning tho Democratic policy that “tho way to national prosperity is to strike down and destroy the industries which give the employment upon which one-third of our working people must depend for their daily bread.” The association held a short memorial meeting for Quincy Hosier, of the Warsaw Indianian, who died several months ago. The association elected Charles B. Landis, of the Delphi Journal, President, and re-elected J. A. Kemp, of the Republican Leader, Salem, Secretary. The association decided to hold its midsummer meeting at Maxinkuckee. Friday, at 4 p. m., tho association called on ex-President Harrison in a body. —t—