Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1912 — SIX TICKETS ON JASPER CO. BALLOT [ARTICLE]

SIX TICKETS ON JASPER CO. BALLOT

Democrat, Republican, Prohi, Progressive, Socialist and Agricultural Ascendency in Order Named. The election commissioners were In session today for the purpose of arranging the tickets on the ballot for the November election. There -will be six tickets on the county ballot this year, the Democratic, Republican, Prohibitionist, Progressive, Socialist and Agricultural Ascendency, in the order named. The rooster will head the Democratic ticket, the eagle the Republican, the rising sun the Prohibitionist, the bull moose the Progressive, clasped hands the Socialist, and the scales of Justice the Agricultural Ascendency. The latter is the design selected by the independent Candidate for state senator, W. H. Groendyk, the only name on the ticket. Groendyk was a candidate for this office before the senatorial convention held at Monon, and when he failed to get the nomination he came out independent and has made a spectacular campaign, traveling over the district in an automobile, making speeches and giving a punch and judy show, or rather something similar. He hails from North Judson, is a farmer, and quite wealthy. His candidacy makes it necessary to print a separate ticket for him, and as it requires over 7,000 ballots in this county alone, it will be seen that the expense of getting his name printed on the ballot will be no small item. The Prohibition and Socialist tickets will also contain but few names, there being no candidates for county offices. The Progressive ticket .will be full with the exception of candidates for prosecuting attorney, surveyor and coroner. The name of Fred Phillips, of Rensselaer, has been substituted for that of C. D. Shook for auditor, and John L. Osborne, of Hanging Grove township, in the place of Eli Arnold, for commissioner from the second district, Shook and the latter refusing to make the race. The work of printing the ballots will begin in a few days and finished as soon as possible. There will be no township tickets this year, but in Jordan and Carpenter townships a railroad election will be held, which will require separate ballots, but only the one election board.