Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 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 hake 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.

The News knelt at the throne of Taggart for several months, and now before it gets the bag out of its trowsers, it is trying to run the Republican party. -- Indianapolis Sun. No citizen who reads President McKinley’s message on the Span-ish-Cuban question can fail to realize the conscientious care and wisdom with which he has studied the situation, the wisdom he has displayed in dealing with the entirequestion, and the injustice of the attacks which have been made upon him by those either ignorant of conditions or willing to do him an injustice for partisan purposes. Farmers will be interested to know that t here has been a marked reduction in importation of articles of farm production, while the in creased activity of the factories under the stimulus given by the new law has advanced prices ol farm production by reason of th< increased demand. The import; tion of wool in the past six mont was, according to Treasury figures,

only 51,786,000 pounds against 73,195,000 in the corresponding six months of the preceding year, while in the six months just prior to the enactment of the new law the total importations of wool were five times as great as those of the past six months, being 280,000,000 pounds in round numbers. There was also a large reduction in the importation of sugar in the manufacture of which farmers are now so much interested, amounting to only 120,000,000 pounds in the first six months of the Dingley law against 1,553,000,000 pounds in the corresponding six months of the preceding year under the r Wilson law, while in fruits, veget-' ables, hay, chicory and other articles of farm production there was also a great reduction in the importation. The value of manufactories to the agriculturul community is illustrated by a writer in the Manufacturer’s Record, CoL J. D. Killebrew, who points out the fact that although Massachusetts lands and climate are far less favorable to agriculture than those of the South, especially the Mississippi Valley, the average farmer in Massachusetts receives $346.00 per capita annually while in Mississippi the receipts are only $203 per capita, the reason of this being, he says, that “Massachusetts by reason of its large number of manufactories has a market at its doors, while Mississippi has to send its products to distant markets.”

Secretary Wilson does well to push the project for the purpose of supplying the United States with sugar produced at home, rather than sending abroad for it as is done at present. A glance at the following figures will show the extent to which we are annually indebted to foreign countries for this staple article of diet. During 1896 it required the total amount of wheat and flour exported from this country to pay for the sugar imported. During the past year the total value of all the live and dressed beef, beef products and lard exported, was barely sufficient to offset that of the sugar imported. Our enormous exports of cotton, which practically supply the world, are only about twice in value our imports of sugar. Our vast exports of tobacco are equivalent to only one-third the value of our sugar imports. Last year it took our total exports of barley, oats, rye, fruits and nuts, hops, vegetable oils, oleomargarine, butter and cheese, pork and hams—all taken together, to pay for our sugar importations.