Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — To Jasper County Republicans. [ARTICLE]

To Jasper County Republicans.

Call For a Republican Nominating Convention. The Republican voters of Jasper County, will meet at their respective voting places or at places designated by the township chairmen, on Saturday the 19th day of March 1898. at two o’clock p. m. Anct select delegates and alternates to the Republican County nominating convention to be held Monday, March 21,1898. The basis of apportionment is one delegate for every fifteen votes cast for John Thayer Republican Elector at the general election held in 1896. And one for every fraction of fifteen of ten or over. The several precincts will be entitled to delegates as follows: — Hanging drove Township ......5 Oillam 8 Walker 7 Barkley twp. east precinct 7 “ “ west “ ...... 6 Marion twp. Ist precinct 11 “ “ 2nd “ 11 ** “ 3rd “ 7 “ “ 4th “ 9

Jordan 4 Newton 5 Keener 10 Kankakee 4 Wheatfield '• 7 Carpenter, east 7 “ south 9 “ west 7 Milroy ..2 Union north 5 Union south 4 Total number of delegates 135. The delegates so selected will meet at the court house in Rensselaer, Monday , March 21st 1898 , at 1 o'clock p. m., and proceed to nominate candidates for the following county officers:County Clerk, “ Auditor, “ Treasurer, , “ Sheriff. “ Coroner, “ Surveyor, “ Commissionei forfheFinst District, County Commissioner for the Second District. The Convention will also select delegates to the Republican State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis Indiuna 1898. By order of the Republican Central Committee. C. W. Hanley, Chm. J. F. Warren, Sec’y.

A million dollars a day pays the current expenses of the Government, aside from the Post Office Department, which is practically self-sustaining. There have been but two or three years in the history of the Government, aside from war times, in which the expenses exceeded $365,t*X),000 per annum. The revenues of the Government under the Dingley law are now running almost a million dollars a day, having been •bout 824,000,000 in the first 25 days of the month of January. This, coupled with the steady increase which-is being made in the receipts under the new law, gives assurance that it will very shortly prove ample in meeting the requirements of the Government for current expensos and fulfilling the promises of those who framed and placed it upon the statute books. Mr. Bryan, in his recently published syndicate article on Mexico, points out as one of the arguments in favor of the silver standard the frket that Guadalajara is actually patting in a sewerage system and waterworks and that another city of Mexicon is laying brick sidewalks. Guudalajara has a population of about one hundred thousund while the other city, whose brick sidewalks he proudly flaunts before

the American people, has a population of fifty thousand. When it is considered that there are hundreds of towus and villages of onetenth this sizo in the United States which have already all the advantages of which Mr. Bryau boasts for these free-silver cities, thero is a disposition to wonder if this is the best that this apostle of free coinage can say in behalf of his pet theory as practically exemplied in our sister Republic.

Secretary Gage has silenced the oarping critics 'who huvo been constantly asserting that he is not in accord with President McKin-

loy in behalf of international bimetallism. In a speech delivered at Philadelphia a few days since he said: “The political hoad of the Republican party has been nctivo to securo bimetallism under the only conditions by which it can be maintained; namely, international agreement with open mints to both silver n,nd gold. In his efforts to inaugurate such method, the President heartily supports the principles of his party’s platform, and in his efforts he has the support of all the members of his official fnmily, innuendoes and declarations from various s6urces to the contrary notwithstanding. Until it can be secured

in this rational manner, we propose to maintain the kind of bimetallism we have now, under which five hundred millions or more of silver are kept on a parity with gold. Under this standard practically for sixty years, and according to the Democratic candidate’s admission for twenty-seven years by statute law, this oountiy has developed and flourished ns no other oountry has.”

A man with family wants a steady job on a farm, with a house to live in., Applicant is sober, iu? dustrious and an Experienced and capable farmer. For further information, apply at this office. w 3,

I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east —absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I alsp loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin.