Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — Call For Republican State Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call For Republican State Convention.

To the Republicans of Indiana and All Others who desire to Co-op-erate with them: You are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall, in Indianapolis, on Wednesday and Thursdav, August 3rd and 4th, 1898. ’ ’ The convention will assemble at 3:30 p. m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, for the purpose of adopting a platform and-for the transaction of all other business except the selection of candidates. The convention will reassemble on Thursday, Aug. 4th, at 9 a. m. for the selection of candidates for the following state offices: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney-General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Statistician, State Geologist, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Second District, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Third District, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Fifth District, The convention will be composed es 1616 delegates, apportioned among the several counties on the basis of one delegate and one alternate for each two hundred votes and each fraction of one hundrenl or over cast for Hon. Henry G. Thayer, first Elector at Large, in 1896, and are as follows: TENTH DISTRICT, No. Vote Delegates. 1896. Benton 10 1,998 Jasper 10 2,032 Lake 24 4.883 Laporte 23 4,691 Newton.. 8 1,545 Porter 14 2,853 Tippecanoe 31 6,239 Warren 10 2,045 White 12 2.383 Total 142 The delegates from the counties oomposing the several districts will meet in Indianapolis at 11 ;30 a. in., Wednesday, August 3rd, at the fol. lowing places, to select officers and committeemen: Tenth Dtst., State House, Room 54, Second Floor. Tickets to the Convention will be distributed by the District Commit, teemen at the district meetings. Delegates should be in their seats ready for business at 3:30 p. m, sharp, Wednesday, Aug. 3rd. Doors

to the convention hall will be open at two o’clock. Charles S.Hernly, S. H. Spooner, Chairman. Secretary. Senator Fairbanksis quoted as authority for the statement that there will be no third call for troops. He thinks th4ja.ll of Santiago practically ends tuei&var. It is more than likely senator is right in his belief that no more soldiers will be called for, but that the war is practically ended, seems no ways certain. It is quite probable that not only Porto Rico , but Havana also will have to be captured before Spain will be willing to make peace on terms satisfactory to this country. But in any case, it is not likely that any further call will be made for soldiers. '

The high numbers of the Indiana regiments in this war will be as puzzling to the reader of history as they are to the reader of current events. Beside the First Ohio or the Second Illinois, the One-hundrefl-and-fifty-eighthlndi-ana appears colossal—lndianapolis Journal. Not so colossal as ridiculous. As was illustrated when the 157th Indiana regiment reached Camp Thomas, and a soldier from another state asked where the other 156 regiments were. In fact, our good and level headed governor has made just one mistake ‘in his management of war matters, and that was in not commencing with new numbers for our regiments in this war, as most other states have. Robert A. Brown, of Franklin, was in town Monday. He is a candidate for the nomination for clerk of the Supreme Court, on the Republican ticket. He came within 20 votes of getting the nomination at the last state convention. Mr. Hess the present incumbent, is not a candidate for re-election, and we do not see why Mr. Brown is not the right man for it. He is a good man in every way, is well qualified for the duties of the place, and has always deserved well at the hands of the Republican party.

Up to the present year, probably no town around here was more free from the dangerous and unlawful practice of riding on the side walks, as Rensselaer. Now there is no town where the custom is so generally and so recklessly prevalent. Every day and every hour of the day, people on foot, have to jump and dodge, and get clear of the walks to make room for the bicyclers, and alsb every day people narrowly escape being run into by the wheelers. A few days ago a little child was fatally hurt at Goshen, by a bicycler on a side walk, and it is only a question of time, if the present abuse goes on, until something of the kind will occur in Rensselaer. Other cities, plenty of them, have ordinances against bicyclers on the side walks and enforce them, too. with no question (is to the legality of the ordinance. Then why should not Rensselaer, where the need is so great, have ,such an ordinance, also?

This nation can afford to lie generous when it comes to making peace with the defeated Spain, assuming that that nation asks for peace within a reasonable time; and can not afford to be anything else. We have set a new mark in our humane methods of conducting war, and especially in our treatment of us set a still higher mark in the conditions wo impose on a conquered foe. This should bo done in this case, especially, because the war which we nre waging is not Ho much for any wrongs donelo us by Spain, as it is for the sake of giving the blessings of liberty and honest government to those to whom Spain had denied these blessings. The direct wrong towards us which precipitated, not produced, the war, the destruction of the Maine, has been amply expiated ; and there is no need to make hard conditions on that account. Besides, we ought to remember that while the

destruction of the Maine was no doubt, the act of Spaniards, and probably Spanish officials of some degree, yet there are no facts by which we can justly say that the Spanish government had part in the act, nor to any considerable extent, the Spanish people. The good opinion, and with it the increased influence for good, which this nation will gain among the other nations of the world, by making peace on the same high plane of the good of humanity, in which it made war, will be worth, in the end, many times over what we will sacrifice in being thus generous instead of oppressive to the defeated nation. Of course, by generous terms, we do not mean that we should make any malerial yeilding of the objects for which we went to war nor return to the oppressive rule of Spain, any colonies which we capture, but there is no need to follow the modern European custom of exacting an enormous money indemnity from the defeated nation.