Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — Results in White and Newton Counties Show Much Scratching. [ARTICLE]

Results in White and Newton Counties Show Much Scratching.

Republicans were successful in the main in White county, electing all county officers but two commissioners and surveyor. The state ticket had a majority of 257 in that county and Crumpacker carried the county by 103. Brown carried the county over Guthrie by 226 votes. This gives Brown a majority in the district of 445 and he will succeed himself as state representative. In Newton county the democrats were largely successful, electing all the county ticket except the recorder, assessor and commissioner from the first district. The republican majority oh the state ticket in Newton county was 188; Crumpacker carried it by 8, and Van Horne for joint representative by 163. Henry Burton for recorder defeated his democratic opponent, Henry DeFries, 93 votes. J. Z. Johnson, republican, defeated William Martin for assessor, 77 votes. Y. D. Deardurff, republican, defeated William Martin for commissioner in the Ist district, 42. A. J. Shuh, democrat, was re-elected treasurer 466 votes, defeating E. S Steele. Mose C. Sawyer was re-elected sheriff by 309 votes, defeating Silas Swain. Henry McCurry, democrat, defeated Fred Richmire for auditor 233 votes and Dr. Reicher, of Morocco, defeated Biecker, also of Morocco, for commissioner of the 3d district by 151 votes. Crumpacker seems to have been elected by about 1,600 plurality. As nearly as the Republican was able to ascertain the following was the result in the counties of the district: Peterson Crumpacker Lake 380 Porter 500 LaPorte ...... 600 Benton 17 Jasper 97 Newton 8 White 103 Tippecanoe 287 Warren 840 Crumpacker’s plurality 1,672.