Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTIONS. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN DISTRICT CONVENTIONS.

CoL J. S. Dodge, of Elkart, is one of the most recent additions to the list of candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. The Colonel is a mighty fine man, and if the Tenth Discandidate, Charley Griffin, of Hammond, can not get the nomination, there is no one whom Jasper Co. Republicans would be better satisfied with than him. When Cleveland steps down from the executive chair he will leave the public debt just where he did at the end of his first term. The intervening Republican administration reduced the debt $310,600,000; Cleveland has increased it it 1262,000,000, and has eleven months to go yet. Reform at an expense of $75,000,000 a year is a luxury that needs a protective tariff. The Republican state convention meets at Indianapolis, to-day. Among the many strong candidates for Governor, it would be rash to hazard a prediction as to who will be the nominee for that office, but from present indications, we should say that C. F. Griffin,' of Hammond, the Tenth District’s candidate, has at least as good s prospect as anyone. The strength he will Bhow at the convention is likely to surprise a good many people.

The action last week of the Illinois Republican state convention In instructing for McKinley is one of the most important and decisive victories yet won for the great and popular Ohio statesman. And especially is the victory for him the more important and decisive from * the fact that Illinois was supposed to be doing some business in the •favorite son” Hue for Senator Cullom. But this action of the state convention effectually retires Mr. Cullom from the list of candidates, and it iB very much to his credit that he takes his defeat gracefully, and is ready to work as hard for McKinley as anyone. If now our own state convention obeys the evident wishes of the great majority of the Republicans of the state and instructs for McKinley, also, it would seem that his nomination would be assured beyond a doubt.

The eighth congress of the Scotch-Irish Society of America is to be held at Harrisburg, Pa., June 4th to inclusive. It is expected to be the largest gathering of this kind yet held. The purpose of this society is the preservation of Scotch-Irish history and associations, the increase and diffusion of knowledg e regarding Scotch- Irish people, the preservation of intelligent patriotism and the development of so. ■cial intercourse and fraternal feeling. AH persons over twenty-one years old who are of Scotch-Irish descent are elibible to membership in the society, and all such further information concerning it should address the Indsecretary, Mr. Charles Arthur ‘Carlisle, at South Bend, Ind.

floward county according to thelndianapoHs Jonmal, an alleged Prohibitionist who is reported, to have been a Democrat haTbeen

against Mr. Nicholson. It has been given out that he will be endorsed by the Democrats and Populists, and.willhayethe earnest support of the saloon element, backed by the money--of. the Liquor Dealers’ Association. If elected to the Legislature he would vote for Voorhees for United States Senator—Voorhees the champion of 4he-whiskey men. This, however is not the first instance where the socalled Prohibition party has been made the ally of the whiskey interest Chairman Gowdy, of the Republican state committee, has announced his choice of Republicans to compose the executive and advisory committees. The executive committee is as follows: Frank Millikan, New Castle; A. W. Wishvard, Indianapolis; E. H. Nebeker, Covington:, H. P; Loveland, Pern; W. I. Overstreet, Terre Haute; O. P. Hopkins, Evansville; W. H. Wateon, -Charleston* JFhe advisory committee is made up of ohOmember from each congressional district, as follows: J. H. Claypool, Indianapolis; O. Tichenor Princeton; Joseph Wilson, Washington; Evan Prosser, New Albany; A. E. Nolan, Lawrenceburg; Silas A. Hays, Greencastle; Chas. F . Jones, Brookville; J. F. McClure, Anderson; James H. Harris, Noblesville; Frank Carson, EaPorte; Warren Bigler, Wabash; C. R. Higgins, Fort Wayne; L. H. Byerle, Goshen. “To the end that our Nation may be restored to the honor, glory and material prosperity to which it attainedxmder a“Republican policy and continue the wonderful development which was brought to a stop by the incoming of President Cleveland and his congress we demand of the National convention soon to assemble at St. Louis the nomination of candidates whose election will mean the speedy re. peal of the infamous and raimras Democratic tariff, and the substitution therefore of one based on the principles of the McKinley act for protection of our domestic industries, the promotion of reciprocal trade with other countries, and the procurment of abundant revenues as far as is possible at the expense of foreigners who market their merchandise in competition with our own productions.” This is New Hampshire’s protection plank. It. “fills the bill” exactly.

The Republican voters’of Jasper County, who will be legally entitled to vote at the general election of November 3,1896, are requested to meet in precinct mass conventions, at the usual meeting place in each township, or j>reci net, on Saturday May 23,1896. at 2 o’clock P. M. to elect one delegate and one alternate delegate to represent each precinct at the Republican nominating conventions herein called to-wit; THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION, to be held at Michigan City, in Laporte County, Indiana on June 4, 1896, to nominate a candidate for Represeutive in Congress from AV Tonth District. „ THE JUDICIAL CONVENTION, to be held at Goodland, Newton County, Indiana, on May 25, 1896 at 1: o’clock P. M. to nominate a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, for the Thirtieth Judicial Circuit

THE JOINT REPRESENTIVE CONVENTION. to be held at some future date and place not yet fixed to nomin ate a candidate for Representive in the state Legislature. The basis of representation to each of these conventions shall be one delegate and ope alternate for each 100 votes or fraction of 50 or more cast for Hon. W. D. Owen for Secreatry of State in 1894. Jasper County will be entitled to 16 delegates and alternate dele* gates to each of these conventions. Charles E. Mills, Attest; Chairman, J. P. Warren May Ist. 1896. Secretary. V