Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — ELECTION RECOUNT AGAINST DURGAN [ARTICLE]

ELECTION RECOUNT AGAINST DURGAN

Citizen’s Ticket Gets Clerkas Well As Mayor at Lafayette—Jfouer’s Majority 73. The very close election at Lafayette, the first returns from which showed Thomas Bauer to have been elected mayor over Georg'e R. Durgan, by a majority of 16, and Weisbaeh and Vaughn to have tied for clerk, has been more fully determined by a recount which took place Monday, and which increases Bauer’s majority to 73 and shows that Vaughn, the citizen’s candidate, was elected by a majority of 36. The votes were Recounted by a board appointed by Judge DeHart, and representatives of both parties were permitted to watch the count, while the candidates themselves were given free access to the rooms where the recount took place. From the outset the changes all favored Bauer and Vaughn and when the count was completed at 12:30 Monday night there was no doubt about the result. The inspectors at the various voting precincts on election day had all been democrats and they had perhaps unconsciously favored their candidates. -There is said to be talk of taking the election to the courts, but it is quite evident that Mr. Durgan and Mr. Weisbach would gain nothing by such proceeding.