Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1912 — Can’t Stir Up Distrust By Sock Foolish Lying. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Stir Up Distrust By Sock Foolish Lying.

Roosevelt republicans charge fraud In the local primaries held here last Saturday, and say that one over-zeal-ous Taft plugger not only. induced some democrats to vote in the primaries bnt also stuffed the ballot box himself, thus depriving the votert from expressing tbefr real sentiments. -—Democrat. The Democrat editor evidently followed his well known tactics of manufacturing tbe-above out of whole cloth. If there was ever- a good nstored bach of conventions held, the Marlon township primaries were samples. Tbe contests were all spirited but friendly and tbe defeated were without room for complaint and made none, while the victors did notjgfaat ov * r their success. As to demoSftttk voting: w* have not heard of any, and rather expect that “Brer” ]Bab baa been led to mistake a few republicans for democrats, on account of tbeir ancestry.