Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1914 — Lake County Official Figures. [ARTICLE]

Lake County Official Figures.

Crown Point, Ind., May 27;—The official result of the canvass of theretums from the recent Lake county primary by the board of election commissioners reveals two interesting facts: First, the total irepublican vote hk the primary was larger than alt drat reported; second, the progressive vote was smaller. The vote for the two republican candidates for prosecuting attorney, J. M. Fox and J. H. Patterson, total's 6,396 votes, as against 5,950, the figure contained in the semiofficial returns. The highest vote cast for any candidate on the. progressive ticket was 668 votes for Otto J. Bruce. Only one other progressive candidate ran over 600, and all the others dropped down to the neighborhood of 550. These corrected flguers show that the republican vote in the. primary was 23 per cent larger than the vote cast for the republican candidate for president in 1912, instead of 15 per. cent greater, as indicated by the early returns. The progressive*vote shows a loss compared with the vote cast for president this county in 1912 of 91 per cent’instead of 88, as indicated by the early returns.