Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1914 — PRIMARIES REVEAL MOOSE WEAKNESS [ARTICLE]

PRIMARIES REVEAL MOOSE WEAKNESS

Results In Lake and St Joseph Counties Forecast Republican Triumph In Fall Election.

Gary, Ind., May 21.—That there is little left of the progressive party in Lake county was shown by the result of the Joint primaries of the democrats, republicans 'and progressives held yesterday. Complete returns will not ‘be in Until tonight, but most of the figures;are in and they show there is a general Shifting of politics since 1912. The republicans, third in the 1912 election, are now first; the democrats go back to second place, and the progressives are at the foot of the column.

Complete returns from about 95 per cent of the vote in the cities of Whiting, Hammond, Gary and Crown Point, comprising about of the county vote, show 5,100 republicans voted, 2,255 democrats and 414 progressives. The voting in Gary, which .went overwhelming for Roosevelt' two years ago, Shows 2,012 republicans, 1,250 democrats (estimated), and 150 progressives (estimated). There is no way of getting the, exact progressive total because at 9 o’clock last night the progressives quit tabulating at county headquarters.

All of the steel mill settlements voted heavily against the democrats. In Indiana Harbor the vote was 1,148 republican, 103 democratic and 55 progressives. Dr. Frank W. Smith, member of the state republican committee lor the Tenth district, predicts a republican victory here this tfAll with the defeat of John B. Peterson,, the democratic candidate for congress. Foreigners declared that they voted as republicans because of the tariff law. Democrats of 'Gary charge there was a shortage of democratic ballots.