Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — District Convention. [ARTICLE]

District Convention.

A convention for the selection of two delegates and two alternate delegates to represent the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana at the National Republican Convention, to be held at St. Lbuis, Missouri, June 16, 1896, will be held in the city of Lafayette, Indiana, on the 19th day of March, 1896, at two o’clock p. m.. The delegates snd alternate delegates to the Lafayette convention, will be chosen Saturday, March 14, at two o’clock p. m. The ratio of representation will be one delegate and one alternate delegate for each one hundred or a fraction of fifty or more votes cast for Hon. William D. Owen, Secretary of State, Each township or precinct shall be entitled to its pro rata share of delegates, said delegates to be chosen by the several townships or precincts, at the usual voting places in said precincts. Jasper county will be entitled to 16 votes in the

CHAS. E. MILLS,

J. F. Warren, Chairman. Secy.

Although there is still some considerable noise made in certain quarters in opposition to the new court house, yet we think it sate in saying that the great majority of the tax payers of the county are not opposed to it. Many even of those who at first would have preferred to have seen the matter deferred for a few years, have now reached the conclusion that the commissioners mhde no mistake

in deciding to build this year. They know that a new court house is only a matter of a few years at most; they know that the present structure is a discredit to a county of the present standing and the splendid future prospects of ours; that it is an inconvenient and insufficient place for the transaction of the business of our courts and our county; that to use it longer would require further litrge expenditures of money, and no lasting improvement resulting; that it

is unsafe for our priceless county records; that to build now [is to “get thfe good of the building,” and also to get the advantage of present low prices in building material, labor and surplus capital. They know too that a debt equal to only one per cent, on the present assessed valuation of the county; and which is much less than one per cent of its actual wealth, and vastly less than one per cent of what its wealth will be in a few years, will be no very serious burden. They know that the talk of “bankruptcy” and the like, to result from this comparatively small county debt, is the veriest rot and rant. They know too, mow, the true animus of the leaders and originators of the most of this op-

position to the new courthouse. They know that it is not the increased taxes that these objectors really care about; but simply the fact that the building is to be in Rensselaer. This fact was demonstrated when a proposal for a new county was made a few weeks ago. The men who pretend to think that the present county with all its wealth in land and chattels will be bankrupted by building a new court house in Rensselaer, are quite willing with a new county of not half Jasper’s extent and wealth, not only to build a new court house in Remington, but to take upon themselves for all time the added burden of another county government. The plaii of a new county, under the present state constitution and state laws, is an impossible dream, but still it is a dream they cherish, and so long as they cherish it, they would oppose the building of a new court house in Rensselaer even if the county business was transacted, and the county records kept in a hay