Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — INDIANA POLITICAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA POLITICAL GOSSIP.

There arc 504 convicts in the prison at Michigan City. LaPorte city reports a ease of snnstroke for last week. A political convention was hehl there. ,The democrats of Allen comity havo nominated T. G. Foster and C. B. Austin for representatives. Hon. Milton S. ltobinson has been re-nominated for congress by the Repnblioans of the sixth district. lion. Morton C. Hunter was nominated for congress by the republicans of the eighth district, on the 21st instant. R. G. Learning has been nominated for representative in the general assembly by the republicans of LaPorte county. Hon. P. R. Leeper is the unanimous choree of the democrats of tSt. Joseph oounly as a candidate for representative. The republicans of Elkhart county have nominated ex-senator Charles Beardsly for re-election and John E. Thompson for representative. For senator, C. T. Green; for representative, Albert Osborn; is tbe reading of the ticket recently put in nomination by the democrats at Elkhart. J. W. Houghton, of Plymouth, was nominated by the democracy as a candidate for joint representative in the legislature for the counties of St. Joseph and Marshall. At Fort Wayne on the 22d instant the democracy nominated Hon. A. 11. Hamilton for congress, from the twelfth district, and Hon. ,1. P. Saraighauseu for state senator.

Gcn.Tom. Browno, who resolved several years ago to become a vegetarian rather than offend a brother, vfas, on the 21 st instant, nominated for congress by acclamation, by the republicans of the fifth district. Ifon. John L. Evans was re-nom-inated for congress by the republicans of the* 11th district on the 22nd instant, on second ballot, thereby quietly relegating James N. Tyner of salary-grabbing propensity to the peacefulness of private life. The ninth district republicans have nominated Michael X). White, of Crawfordsville, candidate for congress—to succeed Mr. Cason. Mr. White has two brothers in Jasper county, one of whom is a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff. Mr. David Hardy was nominated for representative in the state legislature by the republicans of Carroll county. As he. is likely to be beaten by a majority anywhere up to 200 his party friends may point with exultation to the hardihood of their candidate. lion. B. B. Daily of Delphi was nominated by acclamation for judge of the circuit court, of Carroll, White and Pulaski counties, by the democracy on the 17th instant. The delegates of White county ajpJ a portion of Pulaski withdrew in disgust, before the nomination was made. St. Joseph and LaPorto county republicans nominated Hon. T. S. Stanfield for re-election tothe judgeship of that circuit, and John A. Traner of LaPorte for prosecutor. This was done upon the adjournment of the congressional convention at Michigan City on the 21st instant. Two years ago Major Calkins ran ahead of the republican candidate for secretary of state 142 votes; but Doctor Haymond ran ahead of the democratic candidate for secretary of state 991 votes. Dr. Ilaymcnd’s course as a member of congress has, if anything, increased his popularity at home. It is beyond reproach. A drunken saloon atie seconded the nomination of Major Calkins ior congress at the republican convention at Michigan City last week, in a short and pithy address which was greeted with expressions of applause, disguat and contempt The Major appears to possess a happy faculty of enlisting tfie religious and bummer elements rtf harmonious accord under the itanu^r"ifrei>ublicaßient- *•. ■*

Mr. Joseph Cowden, deputy auditor of Jasper county, was nominated by tho democrats of White county for auditor T>y acclamation. Mr. Cowden is a gentleman in tho broadest senso of the term. lie is a good businoßs man, and every way qualified to fill that or any other office. John P. Carr, owner of one the largest and best farms in White county, is a zealous politician — sound in wind, limb and economy. All by himself he organized an excursion to Michigan City for the benefit of the republican convention which was held there last week. To give additional eclat to the occasion ho engaged acornct band from Diookston, voluntarily paying all their expenses out of his own pocket—with money begged from the passengc rs on the train. John P. is not only rich, but his generosity is magnificient, princely—and he is talked of as a possible candidate for the legislature.