Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1869 — Political. [ARTICLE]

Political.

TM year 1870, which is fart approteDbfitg, brings another political ewaapaigu io th* State of Indiana. Thepe p to be rteoted for state officers, oM secretary of state, one treasurer of state, one auditor of state, one attorney general, and wav superintendent of public instruoiioQ. 1* the eleventh congressional district, composed of the counties of St. Joseph, Marshall, Laporte, Lake, Porter, Stark, Fulton, Pulaski, White, Newton and Jasper there la one representative in the United States congress to be elected. In the It. th judicial circuit, composed of the counties ofTippocanoe, White, Newton and Jasper there is to be elected one judge of the circuit court and one circuit prosecutor. There is one state senator to be elected from While, Jasper and Newton conntics. One representative to the general assembly of Indiana is to be elected from the counties of Pulaski, Jasper and Newton. In Jasper county there is to be elected one clerk, one auditor, one treasurer, one sheriff, one surveyor, three county commissioners and all the township officers. The democratic state convention for the nomination of a state ticket is appointed to be held at Indianapolis on the Bth of January, 1870; the republican state convention is to be held there on the 2fd of February next Tbs republican state convention js to be composed of delegates from the several counties, at the rate of one delegate for each one hundred votes, and one delegate for each {ruction of a hundred over fifty, cast for secretary of state in 1868. This entitles Jasper county to eight rotes ip the convention, she having polled 753 votes for Secretary Hoffman.