Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1878 — Address of Democratic County Committee. [ARTICLE]

Address of Democratic County Committee.

Headquarters Democratic CkN Com. Rensselaer, Ind., Oct. 11, 1*578. To the Demo> rats and Nationals of jasper County.we send greeting: We have just closed the hioslvig-| orous and closely eontes’led campaign j fever conducte’. in ttds county We have done well. Two years ago Jasper c&unty gave a Republican major ityof497 for Ranison. Our opponents have repeatedly and defiantly j claimed that we would certainly be defeated by at least 400, and boasted , that not a single candidate ou our ticket could carry his own township. The Republican candidates were all citizens of Republican townships; so were ours, in every case but oiie.— | Now look at the result: Charles 11. Price, of .Carpenter, our candidate for Clerk, received 41 majority over Janies F. Irwin, a citi Zen Of the same township! which two years ago gave a Repubii an majority of 127. Prices majority in the c;iiuty, 99. E. E.-Rockwood, of Carpenter, our candidate for Commissioner of 3d District, has 52 majority over Win, B. Pt ice, pf same township. His majority in the county, 52, Wm. E. Moore, of Hanging drove, has 25 majority In his own township, and beats 11. I. Adams, of Jordan, 5 votes in that township, which gave a Republican majority of 50 in 1876. Jas. M. Nickell, of Hanging Grove, has 71 majority in his own township. Barkley gave 31 republican major try in 18'6, now gives Hon. George If. Brown, our candidate for Representative, a majority of 18. B. W. Harrington, of Union, our candidate for Commissioner, Ist DisDiet, carries his township by 32. Ezra C. Nowels, of Marion, our candidate for Auditor, gets 20 majority in Gillam, over Beni. 11. Faris, a citizen of that township, which gave a republican majority of pl only' two years ago. Hope B. Miller, of Marion, has 8 majority in Barkley township, where his competitor, James T. Abbett, resides. Official returns elect our Clerk, Auditor, and one Commissioner, while tour of our candidates are) defeated by majorities ranging only from 9 to 18. These might all have been saved to us by equal majorities, [ had it not been for the indifference of our friends in Walker township alone. We have elected our Senator and Representative by largely increased majorities,—have gained three ,or four Congressmen, and carried the State by an overwhelming vote. Our National friends deserve great praise for their fidelity and activity in accomplishing this result. Let us continue the good work 30 nobly begun, and press ionward to more complete victories in the near future. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE, Chairman Ira W. Yeoman, Secretary.