Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1914 — OFFICIAL FIGURES FROM LAKE COUNTY [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FIGURES FROM LAKE COUNTY

Progressive Vote Dropped From 5,659 Two Years Ago to 650 to z Reeent Primary. The official figures of the recant primary in Lake county, in comparison with the presidential vote Ln that county in 1912, are interesting and highly illuminating. They follow: W 1912 1914 Democrat 5136 2260 Republican ... 5176 5950 Progressive 5659 650 Loss Gain Democrat ........56% Republican 15% Progressive ..88.5% . In no primary held this year to Indiana has the democratic vote equalled 70 per cent of their vote cast for president in 1912. On the other hand, the primary vote of the republicans in a number of counties showed fully as great an increase over their presidential vote of 1912 as was shown in Lake county. Almost as startling as was the gain of the republicans in the Lake county primary was the heavy loss in the democratic vote. As usual, the leaders of the Beveridge party are trying to explain their miserably light vote to Lake county with the declaration that they had no contests for nominations on the county ticket. Isn’t It about time they were offering some sort of an explanation as to why it is they do not have contests for the nominations in any of the Indiana counties?