Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1898 — To Jasper County Republicans. [ARTICLE]

To Jasper County Republicans.

Call For ft Republican Nominating Convention. The Republican voters of Jasper County, will meet nt their respective voting places or at places designated by the township chairmen, on Saturday the 19th day of March 1898 f at two o’clock p. m. And select delegates and alternates to the Republican County nominating convention to be held Monday, March 21, 1808. 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 Grove Township 5 Gillam 7 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 5 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, “ Cordner, “ Surveyor, “ Comrnissionei for the First District, County Commissioner for the Second District. The Convention will also select delegates to the Republican State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis Indiana 1898. By order of the Republican Central Committee. C. W. Hanley, Chm. J. F. Warren, Sec’y.

The stock of gold in the United States Treasury has now reached in round numbers $170,000,000, and is still increasing, while the gold in circulation in the United States has also enormously increased during the past year.

Have Candidate Bryan, Chairman Jones, and their political associates decided to abandon the tariff issue altogether and concede that the Republicans have been and are right in their protective tariff principle? They omit in their recent utterances regarding the coming political campaign to mention a single word about tariff.

The Wyoming Republicans have decided to abandon the free-coin-age-of-silver proposition which they inserted in their State platforms in the last two campaigns and plant themselves squarely upon the St. Louis platform. The advance in Wyoming wools and in farm prices generally has been too much for the silver cause, even in that section of the country.

President McKinley’s firm and conservative course in the consideration of the exciting incidents of the past few days in regard to Cuba and Spain is being generally cob? mended by the press and the people of the country irrespective of party. His firm attitude in the DeLome incident resulted in a complete disavowal by Spain of unofficial utterances of the Minister,; with a complete recognition of the dignity and standing of the United States Government, while the President’s prudent and patriotic course in regard to the Maine disaster amid the universal excitement which followed is highly commended both at home and abroad. What will be the outcome of this Cuban-Spanish complication, no man, of course, can tell, but it is now conceded that in every' development Bince the new administration entered upon its duties the President’s course has been such as to meet with general approval, while the attacks made by a few individuals upon his course and that of his associates have been generally denounced and. repelled by a large proportion of the country.

The balance of trade in favor of the United States is agriculture products for 1897 is a subject for great satisfaction. The exports of agriculture amounted to nearly $700,000,000, or almost 70 per cent, of the total exportations for the year. The imports of agriculture were also large, but this was due to a great extent to the heavy importations during the closing months of the operations of the Wilson law, an excess of something like $30,000,000 of wool and sugar alone being- rushed into the country to escape the prospective duties of the new law. Even with those large importations the balance of trade in favor of £his country amounted to $288,883,725, which is greatly in excess of the figures for preceding years. The following table shows the excess of exports over imports during a period of five years: Fiscal Balance of trade in Hear. favor of U. S. 1893 $196,609,221 1894. 272,200,120 1895 185,269,876 1896 183,368,857 1897 278,883,725

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