Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — WALKER TOWNSHIP CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

WALKER TOWNSHIP CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Walker tp., and all others that will be legal voters at the November election that wish to co-operate with us, are requested to meet at the Snyder school house on SA IURILhY, JUNE 2nd—— at 2p. m, sharp, fur the purpose of nominating a full township ticket. Every man who wishes for the return of good Republican times are invited. John O'Connor, Geo. Meyers,’ chm. Sec’y. Wlieatlield Township Convention. Notice is hereby given to all the Republicans of Win*H field township and all who wish to cooperate with us in the Welfare of the good .old- .part y are -requested - to - meet at the Wheal Held school house in the town of Wheatfield at 2 t; ra., on SATURDAY, JUM’. llOth, 1894. , for the purn se of nominating the

Jfollawjn g o Ificers; - One To w n ship- Tr ti sfeth — Two Justices of tlie Peace. Two Constables. ~ Oise FTwnsliip Assessor. ", 1 John Graves, - Chairman. Wm. Miller, Secy. C. R. Pollard, of Delphi, has now come out as a candidate for the democratic nomination for Congressman. This meaus, of course, -an abandonment of hie fight with Judge Reynolds for the nomination for Judgeship in the Car roll an 1 White circuit. -

Prospect-, for speedy action on the * ariff billare becoming brighter. The demaucluf tire business of

the country for relief from the present paralyzing uncertainty is becoming so < mpl.al c tkat it cannot h” n-m-h longer resisted.— New York Herald. Wliat bat- become of the wonderful “relief from the paralyzing UDCoitainty” that was to follow the immediate repeal of the Sherman law a year ago? The Herald's economic opinions and predictions have become the laughing stock of the country; They are almost too idiotic for sane consideration.

If the Johnston delegates and their numerous advisors, at the Hammond convention, had had their abundant political morality ten ja red with a few measures of political shrewdness, they would have given a much better account o themselves. They not only let the Landis “Kids” out-general them at evtry iitportant point, such as organizing the convention, securing a majority of the Credentials Committee, <tc., but, worst blunder of all, after they had v it! d awn from the convention with a majority, as *they claimed, of the legally elected delegates to the convention, they broke for home, crying and cussing, instead of staying and orgarizirg another convention and naming 'another candidate. Had they done this they would have 1 ut t hings in such- shape that the state committee could and must have taken hold of and adjusted the matter. In failing to do this) they came about as near thrown g tbeir whole case away as.it was in 1 their power to do.

In 1893, when the Fulton county Demociate juilitied over the election of Grover Cleveland, they marched up and down Main street yelling, “1 here’ll be no sixty-eight cent wheat.” They prophesied better than they knew, for the price of wheat has been less than sixty-eight cents that dav to this.—Rochester Bepublican.

It is useless to attempt to deny the fact that the congressional matter ia the Tenth District is in a bad shape. In fact, to a shrewd observer, the badness of the situation was about as apparent before the g net n‘.bur as after it. The friends of the rival candidates- had—waxed altogether 100 warm. Both sides were too anxio it s'to win. For days before the meeting of the convention it was evident that the nomination of Mr. Johnston or Mr. Lai dis, would result in a.feeling ofTulterness that w >uld seriously endanger the chances for Republican success in the district. Whichever candidate was to be. chosen, must be so. through votes of delegates from Lake county. And these delegates, whether they were to be the s ’-called . “regulur” delegates selected at Crown Poii t, or the contestants selected at Hammond, were all chosen by methods which so far as adequately expressing the will of the people was concerned, were essentially farcical. The idea of a single county mass convention, in a county like Lake, with 8,090-Republican voters, and -SflflL square miles of territory—it is preposterous in any ease, and especially when held in a place like Crown Point, about the most inaccessible in the county so far = a§

corned. And added to this,' were the facts that this Crown Point county mass convention was called on only eight days notice, and-thitt-the Landis men from the largest t.iwn in the connty were shut out from dtendiiig by what, rightly or wrongly, half the voters in the district believed to have

been a premeditated trick. A nomination which turned on c’elegates so chos n could not fail to creat dissatisfaction, just as now the nomination which turned on the action of those, who contested them, is giving dissatisfactionWhat tire final outcome will be, is at present a matter hard to foresee, In the meantime however, The Republican considers Mr. Landis as at least the legally nominated candidate, and unless he either himself' resigns the nomination, or the district committee sets it aside, we shall give him our support as such candidate, just as we should to M r. Johnston, had he been the legal nominee.

“God made women for mater nity before anything else, and this country wants more mothers and less voters,” said the Bev. Isaac N. Halderman in a sermon in New Y. rk hast Sunday. By the token the female suffragists could say: “God made man foi paternity before anything else, and this country wants more fathers and fewer boodle aiderman and legislators.” If a woman’s voting two or three times a \ear will make fewer mothers, what will be the effect of a woman’s sewing fourteen hours a day to make $1.70 a week ?—-Peoria Herald.

The meeting which was recently held in New York to urge the speedy passage of the Wilson tariff bill was held pursuant to a call signed by a 120 “business men and mercantile concerns” of that city. An analysis of the lists of names shows fifty-eight of the signers are importers of foreign goods and eight are dealers in imported goods. Thus more than 50 per cent, of the signers were persons who live by dealing in goods which displace American manufacturers and take the bread out of the mouths of American workingmen. It is quite natural that they should desire the speedy passage of a “reform” tariff bill.— Indianapolis Journal.