Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — Republican District Convention. [ARTICLE]

Republican District Convention.

, '■> The Republican voters of the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, will meet in Precinct Mass Convention on Saturday May 7, 1898, at the hour and place designated by the call of the county chairman, to elect delegates and alternate delegates, to represent each precinct at a Congressional District Convention to be held in the city of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, on Wednesday May 11, 1898, at 2 o’clock P. M. to nominate a candidate for Representative in Congress. The several counties of the District will be entitled to representation in said Congressional District Convention as follows: One delegate and one alternate delegate for each one hundred votes, and each fraction of fifty votes or over cast for Hon. Henry G. Thayer, Elector-at-Large, for the State of Indiana, at the election held November 3, 1898. APPORTIONMENT BY COUNTIES. DeleVotes. gates Benton 1,998 ...20 Jasper 2,032.... 20 Lake -.. 4,883.... 49 Laporte -•• . .4,691... .47 Newton 1,545 .... 15 Porter 2,853.... 29 Tippecanoe 6,239... .62 Warren * 2,045.... 20 White 2,383.... 24 Total 28,669 286 By order of the District Committee. Thomas J. McCoy, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.

Every week brings additional reports of new industries in all parts of the country, particularly in the South, which seems to be especially prospering under the stimulus given to manufacturing by the Dingley law. Last week’s reports from the South showed the establishment of from seventy-five to one hundred new industries, among them a half-million dollar by-product plant at Birmingham, Ala., cotton mills, farm-implement factories, furniture factories, sugar refineries, clothing manufactories, bicycle works, carriage and wagon establishments, cutlery factories, knitting mills, oil mills, lumber mills, shuttle works, chemical manufactories and “novelty works,” the last a sure sign that the Yankee has again invaded the South, this time peacefully. People who are inclined to complain of what they think an unnessary delay in the course of President McKinley in regard to the Cuban-Spanish situation, would do well to keep in mind the

fact that members of Congress, irrespective of party, who are for obvious reasons better able to know the real facts controlling the President’s course, are unanimously and cordially standing behind and commending him. If Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans, who have united in attacking him in other matters, stand firmly and unitedly in line in his support in the Cuban matter, cannot those who are at a distance and have less personal opportunity to know the situation be content to believe that the President is following a proper course in this matter?