Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1904 — The County Convention [ARTICLE]

The County Convention

Official Notice Is The Republican Voters of Jasper County. x The Republican voters of Jasper County, Indiana, will meet at their respective voting precincts on SATURDAY. MARCH 19, 1994 at 2 o’clock p tn. for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Republican County Convention to b. held at Rensselaer, Jasper County, India >a, on .... MON DAY. M A ROH 21,1904 to nominate tne following officers id be voted for at the November Section. 1904 County Recorder; County Sheriff; County Surveyor; County Coroner; County Assessor; County Commissioner for the first Commissioner’s district. The delegates selected will be chosen on the basis of one deb - gate for evSffT®OroOiO®i2r on delegate for every fractional sis votes or more cast for the Hoi. Daniel E. Storms for Secretary o State at the November election < 1902. The following is a table showiiu the number of delegates to b elected at the various' precidc conventions on March 19. 1904; Hanging Grove.. .. .. 7 delegate Shllam 11 Walker ...11 Barkley, east 10 “ “ A west 7 “ darion, first 14 “ “ second 18 ’• “ third 9 “ fourth .9 •* Jordan 5 “ Newton. 7 *• Keener 12 “ Kankakee 5 " Wheatfield 12 *' Carpenter, south 13 “ “ east 10 “ " west 9 “ Milroy., .T. 3 .** Union, north 9 “ south 9 “ B / Orirr of tua County Committer. .George A. Williams. County Chairman Mohe Leopold, C mntv Secretary.

We are living in an era of wonders. vVe have the horse Les car riage and the wireless telegraph, and here is the good old Democratic party preparing to run a candidate for president on an issueless platform.

J G. JoDneon of Kansas, chairttio of the executive committee of me Democratic national committee ays that Kansas, lowa. Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri and the Pacific dope are on fire for William Ranlolph Hearst. It is always east r..i start h conflagration when one uas monev t<> horn

The Honorable Thomas.). Wood >f Hammond announces himselt h a candidate for the Democrats >residentiai nomination. The entleman’s nume ia not as web < i own as it might be, but be bairn btless be>-n looking over the 1 tof those prominently mentionel in connection with the t*'p ot t - Democratic ticket in 1904 and h a reached the reasonable oonolu--8 n that most anything might appen.

The legislature a of Mississippi a d Louisiana rave directed tneir enatora to vote f >r the ratificat o<> ’ fchs treaty which will maftp pos aibie the coDS’ruotion of the PanaiHCantil. Wnatever may be eaid o’"the politioiauH nf the eobd South tie people, of that section ratting tired of antagonizing their •wu beet interests merely ttiat they nav indulge the habit of being agin’ th-