Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1904 — The County Convention [ARTICLE]

The County Convention

Official Notice I* The Republican Voteis of laaper County. The Republican voters of Jasper County, Indiana, will meet at their respective voting precincts on SATURDAY. MARCH 19, 1904 at 2 o'clock p m. for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Republican Oouaty Convention to b-? held at Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, on MONDAY. MARCH 21,1904 to nominate the foil jwing officers to be voted for at the November , election. 1904. County Recorder; County Treasurer. County Sheriff; County Surveyor; . .Cqunty Coroner; County Commissioner for the first Commissioner's district. The delegates selected will be eb esen on the basis of one delegate for every ten votes and one delegate for every fractional six votes or more oast, for the Hon. Daniel E. Storms for Secretary of State at the November election of 1902. The following is a table showing the • number of delegates to be elected at the various precinct obnventi< n- on March 19. 1904; Hanging G ove. 7deltgates. Gillamll Walkerll Barklev. enst I () st., 7 “ darion. first 14 " •* Srcond 18 11 “ third.... .... 9 “ " fourth 9 •’ Jordan’. 5 “ Newton 7 *’ Keener 12 Kankakees - Wheatfield..... ..12 •* Carpenter, southl3 " eastlo “ west 9 “ Milroy3 “ Union, north. 9 '* “ 50uth......... 9 “ By Order of tne County 0 itnmittee. George A. Williams. / County Chairman Mose Leopold, Oonntv Secretary.

The confidence that the Democratic leaders don’t have in carrying Indiana is demonstrated by the way the way the candidates for state offices don’t appear, Whether tested by state administrations or by national administrations, the Republican party baa always shown itself to be the one business party of th 3 country. So Democratic party indicates that it expects to make another campaign on the plan ot the campaign of 1892. It by any mischance it should happen to win the country may as well make up its mind to repeat what it was oailed upon tj undergo as the result of that mighty blunder. A report from Washington says that th- managers of the national convention at St Louis will use the unit rule to kill off the Hearst boom If the Democratic party had conducted itself with conscience and with reason in the past there would have been at this time no Hearst boom to be killtd off. It seems to De generally conceded that Indiana is going to be considered at the national convention. Thia is Datura! and it is reasonable also. We are inolined to think that the party will be thinking about the Hoosier state on election day. And Indiana is not going to disappoint the party either at the convention or at the election.

We wish every voter that ontern plates voting against the present administration at tbe next Lotion wculd sitdown with himself for a while and seriously ask himself if be baa any reasonable reason for casting suoh a vote. Lt bun lay aside hie political prejudice as nearly as possible and nek himself if there is a single fact on which be can base a hope for anything in tbe way of improvement from tbe opposition.

Sa far no Newton or Union township farmers have identified claimed the soil which was e * liberally mixed with tbe snow from tbe northwest, one day last week In fact it is now pretty clearly established that the owners must be looked-for much farther away. Tbe dirty snow extended all over northwest Indiana and it was probably brought by the winds from the far northwest. From the Dakotas, perhaps, or possibly even farther It was a very blizzardliKe storm, anyhow, composed of fine harb particles of snow, indicating that it had been transported bodily, from somewhere in that northwest region, where suoh storms are born and bred.

„ Gov. Du. bin baa been making another grand stand play for notoriety and presumed politics prominence, along hie much overworked lynching specialty. Thia time be baa written to the aheriff of Lawrence county, at Bedford, sharply cirticizing that officer for taking McDjnald, the Schafer murder suspect, to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville, for safe keeping, and ordering tbe aheriff to take the prisoner back to Bedford The whole tone of the Governor’s letter indicates very strongly that he would like to see an attempted or successful lynching at Bedford, with various persona killed and wounded dur ing the process. It would of course give the Governor another great obanoe to pose before tbe

nation as the fcreat anti-lynching governor; which seems to be his main reliance for a pull to make him a senator or vice president. Judge Wilson has issued an order of commitment, for McDonald at the reformatory, and he ia now legally placed there, and no at tention will be paid te Durbin’s fulmination, and illegal and untiled for order for bis return to Bedford.