Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1913 — SAYS OLD PARTY IS “COMING BACK” [ARTICLE]

SAYS OLD PARTY IS “COMING BACK”

State Chairman Sims Expresses Himself as Well Pleased With the Mayorality Elections. Chairman Fred Sims of the republican state committee thus summarizes the result of last week’s election in a letter dated last Saturday: “That the party is again coming into power and influence, there is no longer any doubt. : “In Indiana the republican elected 27 mayors of cities: the progressives 4; the citizens 16, and the democrats 46 on the returns to this time. “The tremendous increase in the republican vote and the decrease in the progressive vote, in practically every community where party tickets were in the field, is the chief feature of the returns. “In this city Mr. Bookwalter made a magnificent fight and while we all hoped for his election, yet his ancomplishment in the 'face of a very difficult situation was splendid. He not only has succeeded in placing the party ahead of the progressives, hut he has gained for it practically 11,000 votes since the election of 1912, this vote being approximately 5,000 in excess of that given to Gov. Durbin last fall, and Johnson’s vote being 6000 less than given to Senator Beveridge. Mr. Bookwalter certainly merits the commendation of ‘republicans in the state. "Outside of the state the returns from every section are very gratifying. The results in New York, New Jersey, and the cities of Pennsylvania and Ohio point with certainty as to the drift of public sentiment. The returns in New Jersey, where an active partisan fight was waged show tl*at the democratic vote fell off 10,000 as compared with that of last fall, and the republican vote gained from 88,000 to 142,000, the progressive vote cast in 1912 being 145,000 and on Tuesday 41,500, which tells its own story. “Comparisons in all of the congressional districts where elections have recently been held, together with those of Tuesday, show tremendously to the. advantage of the Republican party, both in* the matter of its positive gain as well as the great losses to our progressive friends.”