Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1894 — The Democratic County Convention. [ARTICLE]

The Democratic County Convention.

THE REMS THINK THEY SWALLOWED THE POPS, BUT THE POPS HATE REALLY ~ SWALLOWER THE"" REMS. The Democratic County Cdhvention wasJield. yesterday afternoon, in the court house. N. S. Bates was chairman; J. W. McEwen was secretary, and J. W. Douthit was about all the rest of it. All told, therelvere just 22 Democrats present, and 8 or 10 of them were merely spectators. » To “take the cuss off” they went through the motions of nominating one Democrat, Ed. Culp, of Carpenter, for commissioner in the third district, and then adopted a resolution, introduced by Mr. Douthit, to adopt the populist candidates, for the balance of the. ticket.

The vote on the resolution to adopt the Pop’s ticket was by ayes and noes, and only three or four persons very feebly responded when the “ayes” were called for, and no one even peeped in answer to the noes. There is no longer a Democratic party in Jasper county. The pops have swallowed it, “hide, hair, tail and Douthit.