Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1902 — To the Republicans of the 10th Congressional District. [ARTICLE]

To the Republicans of the 10th Congressional District.

The Republican congressmen from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Missouri held a conference Tuesday night on Representative Crumpacker’s bill reducing congressional representation in the South on accountJof alleged disfranchisement of the negro. It was decided to oppose ,'Crumpacker’s bill and to make a stand for a new federal election law that will make it impossible to disfranchise negroes by educational qualification or otherwise. Their idea strikes us as the right one and far more practicable and ■ equitbale than Mr. Crumpacker’s bill, and besides the latter evidently has no chance on earth of getting his bill through, anyhow.

So eminent an authority as the Scientific American now strongly favors the Panama route for the Isthmian canal, as compared tyith the Nicaraugua route. A summing up of the comparative advantages and disadvantages of the two routes, now that the price of the uncompleted Panama canal has been placed at $40,000,000, shows that, in any common-sense view of the case, the Panama route is preferable In fact about all the argument that is left for the Nicaraugua advocates to advance is that the Panama company is so badly tainted with the enormous stealing and extravagancies of the former De Lessep’s management That is a very childish argument however, as the De Lessep’s company went utterly to pieces years ago, and the present company which now owns and wishes to sell the canal to the United States is, so far as anything that has been shown, or suggested, an honest and business-like organization, which has been doing all that could be done with the meads at their dis-

The Republicans of the several counties composing the Tenth Congressional district of Indiana,, will meet on Saturday the 15th day of Feb. 1902, at such times and places as the County Committee designates, for the purpose of selecting delegates and alternate delegates to the District Convention to be held at the city of Monticello, in White County, Indiana, on Wednesday February 19th 1902 at 1:30 p. m.. to nominate a candidate to represent the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana in Congress. The representation shall be one delegate and one alternate delegate for each 200 votes and for each additional fraction of more than 100 votes cast for Hon. Hugh H. Hanna for Presidential Elector at the election held in November 1900. Each county to be entitled to the aggregate number of delegates and alternate delegates as follows: Benton county, » 10. Jasper county, 10. Lake county, 27. Laporte county, 24. Newton county. 9. Porter oonnty, 14. Tippecanoe county, 32. Warren county. 11. White county, 13. By order of the District Com. Thomas J. MoCor, C. E. Mills, Chairman. Secretary.