Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Democrat District Convention.Jas per Solid for Risk. [ARTICLE]

Democrat District Convention.Jas per Solid for Risk.

The democratic district convention will be held in Monon Thursday and the Jasper county democrats will Bisk it The way It now stands it is a factional fight between Risk and Taggart with the antiBisk people slightly in the lead. One of the first things that Mr. Bisk will hear there ia that he violated the state law as accepted by the democrats in having called a county central committee nieeti ng of which he was chairman, to elect delegatee for the tenth district convention instead of a mass conven lion. The delegates were instructed to vote Risk, bat it will be pointed ont to the delegates from, other counties that he feared to call a mass meeting thinking that the latter would have discarded him while y ... , the central committee of which he was chairman, could do uothing but merely^nstoortthechosen delegates forhim. The Rensselaer delegates are W, R. Nowelsand N. Littlefield.