Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1903 — ITEMS HERE AND THERE [ARTICLE]

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Tbe cold wave is still doing bus*’ ness in the northwest, and a very large business too, and is still coming this way, but was still so far away that at one p. m. today the temperature was 85 degrees in the shade. There is hope that the blizzard may turn northward, or spend its foroe before it reaohes Indiana. Indiana populate are showing signs of activity. ' F. J. Robinson, of Oioverdale, state ehairman of the middle of the road faction, and A. P. Hanna, of Waveland, state chairman of the fusion element, have issued calls to their respective followers summoning the two wings of the party to a meeting to be held Sept. 24.

Anew township has just been carved out in the southern part of Laporte oounty, and named Prairie township. That gives Laporte oounty 20 oivil townships. Jasper oonnty, with 30 square miles more area has only 13 oivil townships. But as our population inoreases no doubt more townships will be made in this oounty. Several of our present townships are too large in area and inconvenient in shape.

Indiana will have at least five repiesentatives in the Ohio campaign this fall. Senator Beveridge, Senator Fairbanks, Gqvernor Durbin and Representatives Chas. B. and Frederick Landis have received and accepted invitations to contribute to tbe oratory that will assist the Bnokeye Republicans in rolling an inoreased plurality in tbe election of the state tioket and a legislature that will return Senator M. A. Hanna to the United States senate.

Crawfordsville is to take a new departure iu street improvement. Crude oil is to be used. As a test one street is t o be graveled and the gravel packed with a six-ton roller, then re-graveled and rolled again. Then this gravel is to be completely soaked with oil and left untraveled for three days, when the street will be ready for use. The experiment is said to be a suecess, as the oil keeps the water from soaking into the street and making it muddy, but oauses it to flow into the gutters. It allays dust and makes sprinkling unneoesary.

The thing the Republican party will havejto fight for the next few years, if not for deoades, is radicalism of one form or another, or in various forms. And the fight is going to be something more than an international yacht raoe. The breezes, most of them, are going to be against the Republicans for a time. Indeed, all the forces that find their origin in wind are likely to be against us, but they oount as a force nevertheless, and when combined they are a foroe not to be despised. The Republican party must stand for progress, healthy, solid, permanent progress against a number of revolutionary isms. And all these isms have one element in common—disoontent with the existing order; a discontent that prevails today to a greater degree than ever before in a time of prosperity.