Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — The Organizing Conventions. [ARTICLE]

The Organizing Conventions.

Returns from the various Republican organizing conventions held last Saturday afternoon have not all been received, and are not expeoted until the new committee meets here next Saturday. So far as heard from the township and precinct committees, are given below, the chairman in eaoh case being a member of the county central committee. Marion Tp. First precinct. E. A. Aldrich, chm’n, J. H. Chapman, W. H. Miller, Jr., A. G. Hardy, C. W. Hanley. Second: J. W. Cowden, chm’n, J. P. Hammond, sec’y, liols, Thos. McGowan, Monroe Banes. Third: W. C. Babcock, ohrn’n, G. E, Murray, sec’y, J. W. Shedd, Wm. Zea. G. M. Robinson. Fourth: J. W. Burgett, chm’n, J. M. Wasson, sec’y, N. J. Rood, W. S. Parks, I. B. Washburn. Wheatfield: A. S. Keene, chm’n, L. Paulsen, sec’y, R. 11. Morehouse, James R. Yaglsy, J. H. Tilton, John Greve. Keener: C. O. Spencer, chm’n, D. E. Fairchild, sec’y, C. Bierma, T. M. Hart, Jacob Hanaway. Barkley: West Precinct, T. 11. Hurley, chm’n, Jesse N. Jenkins, sec’y, Clias. Murray, I. D. Walker, Korah Daniels. Jordan: Daniel Waymire chm’n, C. H. Mustard, sec’j r , Fred Waymire, Walter Porter, Mark Reed. Carpenter: East, O. H. Peck, chm’n. Bert Welsh, sec’y. South, A. J. Bellows, chm’n, Jesse D. Allman, sec’y. West, W. C. Smnlley, chm’n, J. A. Lnmborn, sec’y. The newly elected committeemen will meet here Saturday afternoon, to elect a county clmirmnn, secretary and other executive officers, and also 10 delegates and alternates for the Lafayette district convention, which elects a district chairman.