Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1898 — To Jasper County Republicans. [ARTICLE]

To Jasper County Republicans.

Cull K»r a iOpuMican 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. And 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 tho general election held in 189t>. And one for every fraction of fifteen of ten or over. Tl ie several precincts will be entitled to delegates as follows: Hanging Grove Township 6 Gillam 7 Walker ...7 Barkley twp. east precinct 7 “ “ west “ 6 Marion twp. Ist precinot 11 “ “ 2nd “ 11 “ “ 3rd “ 7 “ “ 4th- “ 9 Jordan 4 Newton 5 Keener f. 10 Kankakee 4 Wheatfield .7 Carpenter, east 7 “ south 0 “ west 7 Milroy 2 Union north 5

Union south .5 Total number of delegates 135. The delegates so selected will meet at the oourt house in Rensse-. laer, _ ■ . - ■ ,y , ," , 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 Central Committee. C. W. Hanley, Chm. J. F. Warren, Sec’y.

If the beet-sugar promoters of California, where, by the way, another immense beet-sugar factory is now being constructed, can and have betm able to produce beet sugar at a profit, in competition with Hawaiian sugar, how can it be successfully maintained that Hawaiian sugar, in the event of annexation of those islands, will be able to compete to the disadvantage of beet sugar grown in States east of California, where freight rates must be added, especially in view of the fact that Hawaiian sugar has for years been coming into this country free of any duty whatever?

Democratic leaders are evidently beginning to see the error of their ways in regard to the 16-tol proposition. Reports from New York and numerous other states indicate that there is a disposition, in preparing for State conventions, to let the silver question severely alone and branch .off on government by injunction and other fads of this sort. So strong is this new development that Editor Wharton Burker, of the Philadelphia American, announces his belief that the Democratic party will espouse the gold standard in 1900, and in this opinion he is joined by Chairman Marion Butler, of North Carolina, proprietor of the Raleigh Caucasian, which says: “In 1900 the gold-bug machine will have full control of the Democratic party ” It is presumed that Mr. Bryan will, under those .circumstances, cast aside his Democratic disguise and appear in his real color of Populism.