Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1898 — To Jasper County Republicans. [ARTICLE]

To Jasper County Republicans.

fall For a Republican Nominating -Convention. The Republican voters of Jaßper County, will meet at their respective voting places or at places designated by the township chairmen, ou Saturday the 19th day of March 1898. at two o’clock p m. And select delegates and alternr tee to the Republican County nominating convention to be held Mond..v, 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 Gillani * 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.... v 9 “ west 7 Milroy 2 Union north .... : 5 Union south .-. .6 Total number of delegates 135. Tire 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, “ Com'missionei 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 Centra! Committee. C. W. Hanley, Chm. J. F. Warren, Sec’y.

Silver bullion took another tumble in the markets of the world the other day on the announcement that Russia had completed her plans for her new financial system, under which silver hereafter is to be purchased and used only for subsidiary coin. The latest quotations in New York markets are 55| cents per ounce. This is in marked contrast with the price less than ninety days ago. The market reports show the price of silver per ounce on December 4, 1897, 4 as 60.3 cents, while on February 21 it was 55f, with a downward tendency.

It now turns out that the “patriotic” appeals of Jones, Butler, and Towne, in which they urge the people of the country to rise in behalf of free silver, are really made in the personal interests of these gentlemen and their intimate political associates. It seems from late advices from Washington that they got together and parceled out the political pot-pie before issuing this plaintive appeal for support, actually determining just what men were to be elected to Congress, who as Governors and even members of legislatures, through the combination which they now urge the people to support in the sacred name of free silver.

McKinley times are again the order at the Treasury Department as well as among the factories and workmen of the country. Each week brings additional reports of new industries, and now word comes from Washington that the new revenue law has fulfilled the promise of the farmers, the total receipts for February averaging more than a million dollars a day, and being $17,000 a day in excess of the average expenditures of the Government during the past five years. No February since the incoming of President Cleveland and his free-trade Congress has shown such large customs receipts or such large total of revenue to the Government, and there is every reason to expect that a continuation and amplification of the conditions which produced a surplus of nearly $2,000,000 in February will increase that surplus materially during the present month.

One by one the theories of the free-silverites fall to the ground. They are now compelled to abandon those beautiful tables with which they "proved” to the farmers in 1894 and 1890 that wheat and silver kept apace. Twenty months ago, when Mr. Bryan was nominated and the wheat and silver theory was given a new lease of life, an ounce of silver was worth considerably more than a bushel of wheat, being in the New York markets practically 69 cents per ounce, ivhile wheat was 65 cents per bushel. But what a change! To-day two ounces of silver will scarcely buy one bushel of wheat, the white metal having sullen to within n fraction of 65 oents per ounce, while wheat is far above the dollar mark, the prioe in New York ranging from $1.05 to SI.OB for No. 2 Red Winter, while No. 1 Hard Manitoba and Duluth are quoted ns high as $1.12 and $1.23.