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

Republican County Convention.

The Kepublicau Congressional Convention will bo to Id May 24th, at Hi. nnnotid. In round numbers the Republican plurality in Pennsylvania was 161,000 It is by far the largest majority ever rolled up, even in Pennsylvania. Tomorr >w will take place the much d; nssed gravel road election. O r last word to all concerned ■ Keep your tempers before tin election and submit cheerfully to ; :ie result, after it.

“It not -gene ally known”' says i Barnesville. Ga., Republican, t i 1 Wirtz, the Andersonville prison demon, wTfo was hung for , violav ,g the laws 1' civilized warfare, .• ■ starving' thousands of Unto idiers, w;s the father-in-law of Hoke Smith, the present com . oner of pensioners. Tlv. Democratic papers in this distri state that Congressman , Han ~d recently “made anargumen >-fore the rivers and harbors minittee in favor of an appro} * ion for the Calumet. Wlr - : prize a man would have if he c: ” 1 have caught that “argumen in a phonograph. It has alwf* >eeu conceded that as an argu Congress man Hammond is a i dsy.—Delphi Journal. Em v where there are Democrats i great numbers who are disgust ith tlieir incapable and unpatri ic party, and who are leaving i iu shoals. The results of all ■ cent elections show this. High here in Jasper, county we are In ariug every day of such men who -*y they have voted their last 1) mocratic ticket. These men shoo 1 be kindly looked after by Repo icaus, and above all they should be invited and urged to opeidy identify themselves with the -o ly party which over has given the country prosperity’, and the only one whose present principles hold-''out any reasonable prospect for i'i'isperity iu the future. Pet these imen to imitate the action of G 7 repentant Democrats in a single 'ownshipin Lawrence county, who attended and took part in t 1 •' Republican primary, a week or two ago, and said they were Republicans from that day, henceforth.

The Republicans of Jasper county, who will be legally entitled to vote at the general election of Nov. 6, 1594, are requested tomee hi precinct mass convention on ... M ARTII I?th. Iftftl, £5 \i X. TilTlt Ty try*- hl Jiw mi k. s vivjy iniriy at 2 o’clock r. JI. to elect delegates and alternate delegates to represent the jireciuct 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 fol-

lows: Hanging Grove 4 delegates. Gillum s'delegates. Walker. G delegates. Barkley, Ea5t....... 4 delegates. Barkley, West 4 delegates. Marion, South 6 delegates. Marion, East. 8 delegates. Marion, We5t.......11 delegates. Jordan-..: ? 3 delegates. Newton 4 delegates. Keener 5 delegates. Kankakee. 3 delegates. Wheat held ....’ 5 delegates. Carpenter, South... 8 delegates. Carpenter, East 7 delegates. Carpenter, "West.... G delegates. Mi 1 roy 2 delegates. Union 5 delegates. The places of meeting for the above precinct mass conventions shall be the usual voting places, exthe following: W 7 alker, the Kniman school house. Marion, South, the Town Hall. Marion, East, Court Room. : Marion West, Court Room. Carpenter, South, room over Allman's <L Sheetz’ hardware store. Carpenter, East, Town. Hr 1 !. Carpenter, West, Exoban. 3 Hall.

CcfcSTT GC-SVEN'Tie" . The delegates elected is above provided,.will meet in lie Court House iu Rensselaer, on MONDAY, MARCH 19th, 1894, at one o’clock P. M. to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. G, 1894, as fob lows: County Clerk. Copnty Auditor. 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. . , ATT : By order of the Jasper county Republican Committee. " THOg.JrMcCOTr"' C. E. Mills, s Chairman. Secretary.