Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 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 fiftyvotes 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 4,091.... 47 Newton 1,545.... 15 Porter 2,853.. . .29 Tippecanoe 6,239,.. .62 Warren 2,045.... 20 White f 2,383.... 24 Total 28,669 286 Border of the District Committee. Thomas J. McCoy, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.

Free-trade England continues to call upon protective America for manufactures of all sorts, our January. 1898, exports to the United Kingdom being $50,771,739 as against $40,491,812 in January of the preceding year under the Wilson law. Not even the war rumors and their depressing effect upon importations have been sufficient to prevent an increase in the receipts of the Treasury Department (luring the month of constant excitement just ended. The March receipts were, exclusive of the sums received from the Pacific Railroad sides, $29,307,250, or mere than 20 per cent in excess of the receipts in the corresponding month of the history of the Wilson law. A war with Spain to liberate Cuba and avenge the outrageous destruction of the Maine is now a practical certain, and it will probably begin within a very few days. National honor, patriotism and the

claims of humanity demand that the United States should take the stand which it has, and which is leading us into war. It is a righteous war and a righteous war is better than an unrighteous peace. ~ The success of American manufacturers under the protective system has been so great that freetrade England is now calling upon us for steel in all shapes, the latest development being the reported sale of a quantity of American steel ship plates for use of the Clyde ship builders. The Glasgow Herald, discussing England’s iron and steel purchases from the United States, says: “However we may look at it, America is now permanently in the international market as a competitor for the supply of iron and steel.”

The Official Citizen of Indianapolis, is out in an opinion in its April number that furnishes poor consolation to those who are anxious to oust the present trustees out of their offices in the coming election. It says that if the act of 1897 was unconstitutional so was the act prior to that. If that be the case then we must fall back to that of 1889 the same as was done in the matter of representatives. That act provided that trustees should be elected the first Monday in April to take their places Aug. Ist. and hold for four years or until their successors were electee!; and qualified. That time has gone by without an election hence the presents incumbents would hold until 1902. The Citizen is inclined to think that this will be the final solution of the question.

Those “debt-ridden” and “mort-gage-eaten” farmers of Nebraska must have found a very rapid improvement in their condition since the rejection of free silver and free trade, and the adoption of a protective tariff with a sound money system. Late reports from that state show that a movement is on foot for the organization of cooperative beet sugar factories in various parts of the State and that the area to be planted to beets this year will be ten thousand acres in excess of that of last, and this, too, in the face of the threat by the factories now existing of a reduction in the price to be paid for beets in case of the annexation of Hawaii. Do the silver men suppose they can keep the public in ignorance of the fact that all farm products have advanced, in the face of the steady declineof silver? Apparently. The recently published table comparing Omaha World-Herald market quotations on the date of Bryan’s nomination with those of March 10, 1898, which showed a marked advanced in all farm products meantime, was published in the Congressional Record the other day and created such a panic on the part of the Democrats that Leader Bailey, on the Democratic side, moved to have it stricken from the Record and his motion was carried «. Sugar trust stock, whose advance on the passage of the Dingley bill was looked upon as an evidence that that measure was framed in the interests of the trust, dropped last week to 107£, as against 159 J last September, thus showing that the advance following the enactment of that law was merely temporary and the result of the advantage which it gained by its forsight in laying in 700,000 tons of sugar imported in anticipation of the higher rates of the Dingley law. Why have prices of all farm products advanced? It has been asserted that the increase in the price of breadstuff’s is due to an unusual demand abroad, but this does not answer or explain the fact that everything else has 'advanced. The explanation is found in the fact that the factories and the rail roads and the mines and all the industries which give employment to men are busy, and that men, therefore, have money

to spend for food. Whatever gives constant employment.to the population increases the ready market for the products of the farm, orchard and dairv. - i One of the most remarkable evidences of the business improvement is found in the announcement by the Railway Age that over twenty thousand miles of railways will probably be constructed in the United States in the year 1898. When it is considered that the construction since 1892 has averaged only a little over two thousand miles per annum, and for three preceding years only about five thousand miles per annum, it will be seen that the activity an this line betokens a wonderful business irrr-' provement, especially in the South, where nearly one-half of this construction is promised.