Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — CALL FOR TOWNSHIP CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR TOWNSHIP CONVENTION

The Republicans of Marion tp., will meet in mass convention at the court house in Rensselaer on Saturday May sth, 1894, at 2 o’clock P. M.. for the purpose of nominating the following officers towit: One township Trustee. One township Assessor. Three Justices of the Peace. Three Constables. By order of township Com. Geo. M. Robinson, Chairman. W. B. Austin, Secy.

Cai pt nter Township Convention. Tl. Republicans of Carpenter Township will meet at Durand Hal], SATURDAY, MAY sth, 1894, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the. purpose of electing d'el&gaTeg" to the Judbcial, Senatorial and Representative conventions; also to nominate a full Township Republican ticket The Judicial and Senatorial convention will be held at Goodland, May Bth; Representative at Rensselaer, May loth. Committee. The proceedings of (the Republican state convention of last week will be found, in full, on one of our inside pages. The receipts of the United' States for the nine months ending I March 30, 1894, show a loss of S7O, 000,000 as compared with the same month of the last fiscal year. The Canadian farmer has no doubt that the tariff is a tax —on him. He has to pay it in order to bring bis products across the line and sell them in the American market. The receipts of the government for the nine months ending March 30, 1894, shows a loss in customs revenue of $53,000,000, being an average of nearly $6,000,000 per month—equal to $500,000 per day. The revenue seems to be reducing itself without the aid of the Wilson bill. The Senatorial and Judicial conventions are both to be held at Goodland next Tuesday May Bth. If any of the townships electing delegates to those two conventions next Saturday, should find it desirable to make the same man a delegate to both conventions, there is nothing to prevent it As the work of one convention will be finished before the other is organi e u

The nearer producer and consumer- are brought together the more the profit tothepr educe r, the less the cost to the consumer, and the less the profit to the middleman.

The outstandinir interest bearing debt of the United States in creased during the first year of Cleveland’s administration, from March Ist 1893, to March 1, 1894, 829,905,6(0, being almost 85,000, 000 per month. The increase now is 810,000,000 per month. Every dollar sent across the sea to purchase the product of foreign manufactured articles takes from our own people'the possibility of giving steady employment to those who throng our shores or patiently wait for a day’s employ meat. If the Pilot editors really wish for a brief but clear, forcible and entirely correct and up-to-date expression of what Republicanism stands for, let them read the Indiana Republican state platform, adopted last week. It may be found on one of the inside pages of this paper.

Jasper county Republicans should not neglect to attend the primary conventions next Saturday afternoon, to elect delegates to the Senatorial, Judicial and Representative conventions. And in Marion and Carpenter townships, and perhaps others, full township tickets will be nominated.

The markets of the world, of which so many glowing pictures have been painted by free traders of the United States, are as nothing when compared to the home market our producing millions find for all of nature’s stores. More than $50,000,000,000 worth of goods, the product of our own country, find a ready sale in our own markets. This is larger than all the foreign trade of the world. Then why should we change this safe, sure, excellent place of finding sale for all we produce for the indefinite one that no Democrat has ever been able to locate ar find?

The voice of Georgia has now become the supreme voice in pen - sion administration, for is not the appeal of all pension matters to Hoke Smith of Atlanta, by the grace of Grover Cleveland secretary of the interior? The local boards are not abolished, but disability—a vital power for his protection—is taken from them by administrative order. And, after all, Geo gia has carried her point. She is surely in the saddle, well illustrating the apt saying that their was a time when the boys were “marching through Georgia,” but now is the time when Georgia is marching through the boys.

Capt. Swigart, of Logansport, has formerly withdrawn from the Congressional race, leaving only Mr. Johnson and Mr. Landis in the field. The situation as summed up by the Logansport Journal is as follows: Johnston. Landis. Carroll county.... 2! Cass “ ... 5 30 Fulton " 21 Jasper “ 12 2 Lake “ ....; 30, Newton P 8 4 Porter “ .23 Pulaski “ 5 5 White •• 18 Totals io4 81 Necessary to a choice, 93. These figures are probably about tight, although both the candidates claim considerably more than is here conceded them. The Landis men, for instance, say that they have several votes in Fulton, and a bigger number in Pulaski than is here given him, also that when it* “comes to the scratch’ Cass county will give him even more than 30. On the other hand, the Johnson men claim several votes in White, more than 5 in Pulaski, and he has nearly always been conceded 13 in this county. Porter and Lake counties have not yet elected their delegates, but they have usually been figured as solid for (Johnson. This, in the case of Lake county, at least, the Landis men are said not to fully admit