Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1874 — Congressional Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Congressional Candidates.

It is safe to assume that all the candidates for the Republican Congressional nomination are now in the field, and on looking the field over we find that nearly every county in the district has one, while some of them have duplicates. We have always considered it a favorable sign of victory for a party when it has a number of candidates for an office, and we believe the sign will not fail the Republican party in this district this year. Whoever is nominated at Valparaiso, on the 6th of next August, will represent the district. Our own county presents Hon. Geo. C. Merrifield, for whom the Tribune is doing its best to sepure the nomination, although it will cordially support the choice of the Convention. Laporle furnishes Major W. H. Calkins', an ex-soldier, an able' lawyer, a good orator aud a gentleman whom we have no fears will misrepresent the District if nominated. In Porter, Major Coffin, the present county Treasurer, is a candidate, He has a good record as a soldier and makes a faithful officer, while his friends claim for him that he has the material in him for a good Congressman. In Lake county David Turner has been spoken of, although we have no intimation from him that he is a candidate. White . county has two candidates—Hon. Anson Wolcott and Thos. Bushnell. Mr. Wolcott has been In the Senate, is a gentleman of much ability, and as the Tribune has often had occasion to remark is the handsomest man in the State. In Jasper, Judge Hammond, who was presented by that county two years ago will be presented again. Newton county has no candidate, nor has Carroll county that we have heard of. —South Bend Daily Tribune . Judge Hammond assures ns that he will not be a candidate before that convention, and that lie would not accept a nomination for Congress though tendered him by all of the political parties. He has no aspirations in that direction.