Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1904 — Jasper County Is It. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Is It.

Got The Bulge 0o Lake County, This Time, For Joint Representative. Wanted, a capable all-around statesman to run for joint representative on the Republican ticket. No Lake county men need apply. Since 1897 when Jasper county was taoked on toLake for representatives, Lake having also a whole representative by i’sulf, Lake has been the kite and Jasper the bumble bat useful tail. Hereafter Jas per will do the kite stunt, and Lake osn take the tail end, and look pleasant, Heretofore when a county with a big population bad a representative by itself and r ioint renreseutstive with some other oounty with a smaller population, the big county would send its full delegate strength to the joint convention, thus swamping the small county, and giving it only what it pleased, which generally was the geff in the midriff. Thus in the three j dot conventions Lake and Jasper have held Lake has taken the nominations

twice and given it 13 Janper only onoe. And yet the excess or left Republican vote of Like county is not nearly so large as the total Republican vote of Jasper county. Therefore, by just rights Jasper should have had two and Lake only one of the nominations, But now we will have a oliaaoe to even up matters a little Under the new rule of the Republican ntn'e oommittee, big counties with a representative by themselves and e joint representative with a smaller county, oan only have represent*, tion for their excess vote at the

joint convention. And the way that this rule will work oat this yoar as per the figgures put out by Fred Sims, secretary of the state Republican oommittee, Jasper county will nave ten delegates at the joint conventions, and Lake only seven. Therefore if Jasper oonnty wants the nomination all it has to do is 1 3 unite on some good man and take ir.