Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 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 Tipi lecanoe 6.239.... 62 Warren 2,045.... 20 White 2,883.... 24 Total 28,669 286 By order of the District Committee. Thomas J. McCoy, C. E. Mills, Chairinaft. Secretary.

Hereafter people whu inveigh against bond-holders will have to be careful lest they tread upon the corns of their neighbors. Tie' Administration and the Republican House of Representatives are prepared to make the proposed issue of bonds for war purposes, in the extreme sense, a “popular loan." All Imjiuls are to be in sums of fifty dollars and multiplies of fifty, and all subscriptions of 11,000 or less will bo honored in full, no matter how much the total subscription may exceed the total bond issue, any necessary reduction by “scaling down” being applied in cases only of large subscriptions, and not among those coming from the masses. The more the President’s course inCuban-Spartish matter is studied and understood, the more cordially it is commended by all save those who desire an opportunity to crit?

cize, without reference to /the justness of their criticism. A single paragraph in the Washington Post, published at the seat of Government on April 18th, illustrates this fact. It is as follows: “It is now known, and, in fact, has been publicly stated on the floor pf the Senate, that if war had been fqrced three or four weeks ago, the United States would not have been fully prepared. It is not now ready, but the vigorous measures which have been put into operation in the last few weeks have achieved most desirable results.”