The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-01-14
DUBOIS DEMOCRATIC
MASS MEETING.
SOME PEOPLE IMAGINED 1T WAS A
TOWNSHIP DELEGATE
CONVENTION.
". /. COX INSTRUCTED FOR,
FOR DISTRICT CHAIRMAN.


A Lively Time, and Nearly . Scrap"
The Democratic County Mas.
Meeting last Saturday, Jackson
day, vas fairly we'll attended, dem
ocrats OF every township being pres
ent when Chairman Koerner called
for order, at l o'clock. The chair
man stated the object of the meet
ing, and read the circular letter
from the Democratic State Commit
tee, and then announced that the
election of a chairman for the meet
ing was in order.
w. E. Cox put in nomination r.
NJ. Milburn. John r. McFall
placed in nomination w. w. Ken.
dali. Leo Fisher and Jos. f. Fried
man were appointed tellers, and the
supporters of each side were re-
quested to range themselves on the
North and South sides of the cour;
room. The count by the tellers
showed SO for MilbuIn, and So for
Kendall. The announcement OF
the result elected a round of ap.
plause from MI. Cox's friends. Mr..
Milburn took the chair, and in a few
words counseled harmony, and de-
votion to Democratic principles, as
exemplihed by Jackson, and en-
braced in the Democratic platform
at Chicago upon which that peerless
statesmen, VIM. j.. Bryan, nearly
wrested victory from the cornbina
ton Vt corporations stock gamblers,
capitalists and monarchists in 1896.
The Democratic newspaper re-.
porters were then chosen as Secre-
%taries, and Z. Pickhardt, w. HUM,
B. Z. Doane and e. Doane were
given seats at the tables inside the
railing.
DR.. Frances Green then asked the
attention of the chair for a moment,
and stated that his knowledge Of
prosperity" since McKinley's in
auguration had led him to a change
Of political base, and that although
he had always heretofore voted an
u~nscratched Republican ticket, he
would henceforth vote for the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Hon. M. A. Sweeney moved that
a committee Of 5 be appointed by
the chair to select and report to the
convention the names Of Is dele
gates to attend the district conven
ton at New Albany on Tuesday.
w. w. Kendall suggested that the
number Of the committee be in
creased to II, and the suggestion
was accepted by Sweeney.
j. I. Worsham moved as a sub
stitute that each township select its
member Of the Committee. M. A.
Sweeney and ]. T. Worsham spoke
on the substitute, Sweeney arguing
that the official call of the State
Committee being for a county mass
meeting, it could not be properly
divided into II township meetings,
and that If township meetings were
intended the proper place to hold
them would have been in the sever.
al townships, where every Demo
crat in the townships could easily
attend. Worsham argued that It
gave the Chairman an undue ad-
vantage to empower him to appoint
the committee.
On a rising vote the substitute
was rejected by a vote of SO to 81,
and the original motion adopted.
The chair then appointed on the
committee, John Lottes, Columbia
tp. Jacob Nix, HARRISON tp. John
Gray, Boone tp.; w. T. Young,
Madison tp.; M. A. Sweeney,
Bain brid &c; JOS. Spellmeier,
Marion; Jonas Killian, Hall j. j..
Cunningham, Jefferson John Stern
berg, Jackson; J. w. Miller, Pa
toka; j. P. Huther, Ferdinand /; M.
A. Seidl, Cass.
The committee retired to another
room to consult.
While they were out G. Doane
made a few remarks calling atten-
ton to Gen. Jackson's glorious
character; his trust in the common
people; the brilliant victory he
achieved over Lord Pakenham and
the British monarchists at New
Orleans, and that Democracy in
1896 led a battle for the same
American Independence and sup
eriority over the British that Jack.
son fought for at New Orleans, and
finally achieved by his veto Of the
Y. s. Bank bill while he was Pres
idept. He therefore suggested that