Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1904 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

The semi-annual missionary •onvention of the Christian church •f Indiana will be held at Laporte on April 13th and 14th. The state is composed of fouiteen dis iricts of which this is the second, consisting of the counties of Mewtoo, LaPorte, Lake, Porter, Jasper. White, Pnlaski and Stark Rev. J. O. Smith of Valparaiso is president of the district. The Christian chnroh of Indiana now number over 125.000 members, and is a moat aggressive religions V»dy. Hammond Tribune: In all probability there will be plenty of time for the candidates for joint representative to make a good long canvass. The date of the convention will doubtless not be set until after the supreme court passes upon the oonstitutionality of the legislative apportionment. A comparison of the voting strength between Newton and Lake counties shows that we outnumber them even when the anit rule is applied. On a basis of one delegate for each 200 votes Lake county will have twentythree delegates and Newton eight, in the convention. Should the apportionment law be declared illegal therein little question but what Jjsse Wilson of Rensselaer will be re-nominated. Philosopher Wheeler of the Crown Point Star recalls, with a remenisoent and regretful tone, the halcyon days of yore when cord wood oame in freely on subscription in this kind of weather, and no embarrassing questions were propounded from the editorial sanctum as to the ownership of the-laud the wood was cut from. He says: “This kind of a winter, twenty-five years ago, would have been grand for stealing wood along the Kankakee marsh, but it is watched so closely now that very little of that work is done. It was the style in those days to forage wood and was not looked upon as •rime.” A poll of the Democratic mem- ♦ bersbip of tho bouse of representatives show that 162 are against a reaffirmation of the Kansas City platform, 42 are non-committal, and 7 are in favor of reaffirmation. It is said that three out of four of the Indiana Demooratio members privately express themselves as opposing a reaffirmation, but all are in the non-committal column, A party that passes that sort of a verdict on the wisdom of its own three-year-old conclusions and beliefs will hardly oommend itself to the favor of the American voter. If Democratic leaders themselves say that they were wrong three years ago, what guarantee are they going to,furnish that they are right ■ow ? Indeed, does not this confession of lack of sound judgment in 1900 constitute a good reason that the same leadership is not capable of enunciating correct principles now?