Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1914 — Here It is Again. [ARTICLE]

Here It is Again.

History repeats itself once more in the Seventh New Jersey congressional primaries Tuesday. The republicans cast ill the primary nearly nine thousand votes, nominating Dow H. Drukker to succeed the late Congressman Bremner. The democrats cast 4,500 votes, with five candidates in the field. The progressives cast 400 votes. The socialists cast 700 votes. In this district in 1912 the democratic Candidate for congress received 9,900 votes. The republican candidate received 6,666 votes. The progressive candidate received 4,746 votes. In this primary the republicans cast enough votes to carry this district, 3,300 democratic in 1912, at a special eleetioh by a comfortable plurality. Their primary vote was 30 per cent bigger than the 1912 election vote. x . The democrats cast 50 per cent of their 191? election vote, and the progressive ten per cent , The election will follow in two weeks. The campaign will be waged on the tariff question. When the returns are in we shall have still another line on the political drift