Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Call For Republican State Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call For Republican State Convention.

To the liepublicans 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 Thursday, August 3rd and 4th, 1898. The convention will assemble at 3:80 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 lustrine-

tion, 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 anti each fraction of one hundred 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 Laporte 23 4.691 Newton....- 8 1,545 Porter 14 2,853 Tippecanoe 31 6,239 Warren 10 2,045 White 12 2,883 Total ....142 The delegates from the counties composing the several districts will meet in Indianapolis at 11:30 a. tu., Wednesday. August 3rd, at the fol. lowing places, to select officers and committeemen: Tenth Dist., State House. Roopt 54, Second Floor. Tickets to the Convention will be distributed by the District Committeemen 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 conventiou H&H will be open at two o’clock. Charles S.Hernly, S. H. Spooner, Chairman. ’ . Secretary. The commercial failures of 1897 were 2,000 less in number than those of 1896, and the liabilities $90,000,000 less. « In 1897 the output of pig iron was 9,654,680 tons, an increase of a million tons of the out-put, of 1896, and for this year the unprecedented production of 12,000,000 tons is predicted.

Total earnings of 201 railroad companies, owning 150,000 miles of road, to January, 1898, $1,037,000,000, an increase of $58,000,000 over 1896. In 1896 thirty-four railroad companies, controlling 6.441 miles of road, went into receivers’ hands, while in 1897 only eighteen, owning 1,551 miles, suffered that fate. The trouble with the Democrats in figuring out Republican revenues in order to show that the Dingley bill is falling short of predictions, is that they neglect to substract the increased expenses on account of the war from the receipts, though the average school boy would probably see the propriety of the rule. Annexation is not a new thing in American history. The Alacrans Islands were annexed under the last Democratic administration, and altogether we have been annexing and acquiring seventy islands since October 23, 1856. Fif-ty-seven of these are in the Pacific and thirteen in the Caribbean Sea. Among other insular assets, the United States owns the Aleutian Islands, extending a thousand miles west of Hawaii.

It took a woman to trap Hon. Champ Clark, one of the demagogues of the House of Representatives. A Missouri woman wrote to Mr Clark and requested him to urge her pension claim. He replied that it would be useless, as only the claims of Republican members were allowed to pass the House. The woman thought this rather queer and forwarded the letter to the chairman of the committee on pensions. The latter read the epistle to the House and pointed out that the committee had passed favorably on three of the pension bills introduced by Mr. Clark, and that he had made no effort to secure legislation in the case of the Missouri woman. This case will give the country a very fair idea how party capital is manufactured by the present leaders of the Democracy. Hon. Champ Clark is regarded as one of the shining lights of the Democratic regime.

The financial condition of the Government and the country at large has been immensely improved in the fifteen months that President McKinley has held office. In support of this statement attention is invited to the following figures: GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Receipts from July 1896, to April 1, 1897 f 242,785,051.25 Expenditures from July 1, 1896. to April 1, 1897.... 281,690,332.10 Deficiency 88,105,280.93 Receipts from July, 1. 1897, to April, 1,‘1898807,516,723.36 Expenditures from July 1. 1897, to April 1, 1898 303,370,270.44 •Surplus 4,146.442.82 May 1, 1898, amount of money in the United States ..2,424,148,473.00 May 1,1896, amount of money in the United States.. 2,347,306,008.00 Increase in two years 76.842,467.00 New three room house to rent. Four dollars per month. W. B. Austin.