Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1898 — To Jasper County Republicans. [ARTICLE]

To Jasper County Republicans.

Call For a Kcpublioau Nominating Convention. The Republican voters of Jasper Cdtmty. will meet at their respective voting places or ut places designated by the township chairmen, on Saturday the 19th day of March 1898 „ 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 189(5. 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 Giliain 7 Walker ..7 Barkley twp. east precinct 7 V west “ G 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 g’olock p. m., and proceed to

nominate candidates for the following county officers: County Clerk, “ Auditor, “ Treasurer, “ Sheriff, “ Coroner, “ Surveyor, “ Conimissionei 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.

Recently published statistics relating to the cotton, manufacturies of the South show that the number of mills has increased from 180 in 1880 to 490 in 1898, the number of looms from 14,000 in 1880 to 115,000 in 1898, the number spindles from 607,000 in 1880 to 4,100000 in 1898, and the capital employed from $21,900,000 in 1880 to $125,000,000 in 1898. Considering that this phenomenal giowtli of nearly 700 per cent, has happened, practically all of *it, under a protective tariff, and that the prosperous condition of the mills of that section to-day is enjoyed under the same law which applies in New England, it is difficult for the low-tariff orators to make political capital out of the fact that the New England mill owners have found it necessary to reduce wages because of southern competition.

It is understood that the Eastern Democrats, headed by Hill, Murphy, Croker, Smith of New Jersey and others, are planning to make Chief Justice Parker, of New York, the candidate of the Democratic party in 1900 to the exclusion of such extreme; free-silver men as Bryan, Bailey, and other Western and Southern aspirants for the nomination. Justice Parker lias a record as a moderate silver man, not an extremist, and the plan of the people who are working to this end is to shape the nomination and the platform in a way to relegate the silver question to a back seat upon the platform, though not entirely out of view, making government by injunction and other fads of this sort the cry with which to catch the popular ear, and omitting the tariff entirely from the issues to bo discussed.