Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — Judical Convention. [ARTICLE]

Judical Convention.

The Republican- voters of the several precincts of Jasper County, will at their precinct meetings on Saturday March 19, in addition to the other business of the meeting, seh ct one delegate from each preci uc' to the Judicial Convention to be held in Goodland, Indiana, on April sth, 1898. The basis of representation is one delegate for each 100 votes cast for John G. Thayer, Republican Elector, at the general election in 1896. The delegates from the several precincts will be entitled to the following vote: Hanging Grove, .8; Gillam, 1.1; Walker, 1.1; Barkley East, 1.; Barkley West, .9; Marion No. 1, 1.6; Marion No. 2, *1.6; Marion No. 3, I. Marion No. 4, 1.3; Jordan, .5; Newton, .7; Keener, 1.5; Kankakee, .7; Wheatfield, 1.1; Carpenter South 1.4: Carpenter East, 1.1; Carpenter West, 1.0; Milroy, .3; Union South, ‘7; Union North, .7; Total 20. Charles W. Hanley, Chairman, Rep. C. C. J. F. Warren, Secretary. *

When the fanners of the country stop to compare their condition at the close of a year’s trial of Republican administration and protective policy with that of the years immediately preceding it under Democratic administration and free trade policy they must reach the conclusion that it is not a case of happen-so, but that just so long as the Government is under Democratic free trade control, business will be stagnated, factories closed, men out of employment, wages reduced and farm products low in price and slow’ of sale. Under the three years’ operations of the Wilson Tariff the business of the country became terribly depressed; thousands of men were out of employment, prices of all, products sold at and below cost of production. What is the difference at the present time? Merely that the policy of the Government has been changed; that the low tariff measure has been stricken from the statute books and a law placed thereon which protects American industry and gives employment to America workmen, and at the same time produces revenue to meet the expenses of the Government. The effect of this change has been, in a single year, that vast amounts of money have been put into cir-i culation; that more men are earning wages, and men are earning more wages with which to buy, and prices of farm products of all sorts have risen notwithstanding the large crops of the year. The statistics of the Agricultural Department show that the cereal crops of the United States for 1897 were worth $130,0(K),0(X) more than in the preceding year, and that the values of farm animals, horses, cows, sheep, hogs, etc., have increased in the year something like $234,000,000, the increase in values being distributed through every State and Territory. This is not merely chance —this great rise in prices of practically every article of farm production; upr

can it be successfully charged to ‘’shortage abroad;” it is the result of change of policy.