Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — Announcement of Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Announcement of Candidates.

S. P. Thompson is a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney. Ira W. Yeoman is a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney of the 30th Judicial Circuit, subject to the decision of the people at the October election. Peter Rhoads is a candidate fqr Sheriff of Jasper county, subject to the October election. At the solicitation of numerous friends and neighbors, Mr. Wjlliam Coen has consented to be an lndependent candidate for Trustee of: Marion township. At the solicitation my neighbors I will be an Independent candidate for County Commissioner in the Second District, if elected, I promise to favor a decrease in the expenditures of the count}, and a decrease in the rate of taxation so far as practicable. George Kessler. Being convinced that the so-called Republican township convention held last Saturday was a set-up affair, manipulated by certain parties in the interests of a clique, I do not consider any person bound by its action, and, therefore announce myself; ,an IndeSendCnt candidate for Trustee of Marion township.

JONATHAN PEACOCK.