Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1912 — DEMOCRATS NOMINATED CANDIDATES THURSDAY. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS NOMINATED CANDIDATES THURSDAY.

Jasper County Played Funny Polities and Lost Representative Nomination—Looks Like Scheme. Some funny politics was played by Jasper county in the senatorial and representative convention at Monon Thursday and the result is that Jasper county, which could have had the nomination for representative, lost it because this county refused to support the White county candidate for senator. Apparently the Jasper county delegation was dominated by Boss Babcock, who was strong for A. J. Law, the Morocco banker. Law made it known several weeks ago that he wanted the nomination and Editor Babcock lauded him in an editorial to the exclusion of every other man in the district. It was the “boss” style of printing a man into the nomination and had the effect of cinching about all of Jasper county. Inasmuch as Jasper is linked with White in the representative district it was odd politics to see Jasper giving its vote against Anheir, of White, when Jasper itself had two candidates for the representative nomination. Had Jasper voted for Anheir, as would naturally have been done in a convention where a delegation was not boss ridden, then J. A. McFarland could have been nominated for representative. Possibly the action of the “boss” was more than skin deep, however, as he is known not to favor McFarland and he knew that the way to dispose of him was to offend White county in the senatorial race and this was done. Some independent thinker in the Jasper county delegation, however, refused to be so controlled and cast his vote for Anheir. The result of the convention was that C. A. McCormick, the youthful editor of the North Judson News, was nominated for senator and Patrick

Hayes, of Monticello, was nominated for representative. The senatorial contest went 21 ballots. A. J. Law, of Newton county; A. A. Anheir, of White, and W. H. Grouendyk, of Starke, were the active candidates. Starke cast its 7 votes for Grouendyk; Newton cast its 6 votes for Law, White cast 11 of its 12 votes for Anheir and Jasper cast 7 for Law and 1 for Anheir. After twenty ballots, which showed but little change, Law’s votes getting up to 15 and Anheir’s to 10, McCorfhick, who had received a vote or two on some of the ballots, was decided upon as a dark horse and on the 21st ballot secured 20 votes, 6 from Jasper, 6 from Newton, 6 from Starke, and 2 from White. Anheir got 2 from Jasper and 10 from White and Grouendyk received 1 vote from his own county. Law had withdrawn and even after he was out of the way, Jasper refused to support the White county man. ? 1 In the representative race it took but one ballot to decide. Jasper split its vote between McFarland and Rainier and White county, Rainier’s old home, gave him one vote. Patrick Hayes received 11 votes from White county and that was enough to nominate him. It Was a bit peculiar to see Jasper county split its vote between McFarland, who has always been an active party man, and 0. K. Rainier, who has lived in the county only about a year, and who had for eight or ten years, lived outside the district, having resided in Lafayette prior to his removal here, but this doubtless was part of the inside politics, played by Boss Babcock to keep McFarland from getting the nomination. It worked beautifully at the convention but it is quite probable that the action of the Jasper county delegates will serve as a boomerang at the election. r> The Jasper county delegates F. E. Babcock, Arnold Luers, Joe Luers, W. M. Hershman, Dolph Day, Frank Garriott, N. W. Littlefield and Henry Miseh. Coupon No. 2, Home-Grounds Improvement Club, on page 2 today.