Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1914 — WOOD ELECTED TO CONGRESS AFTER FIGHT [ARTICLE]

WOOD ELECTED TO CONGRESS AFTER FIGHT

Lafayette Man Will Have Plurality of Fully 6,000 in the Tenth District. Will R. Wood, of Lafayette, who represented Tippecanoe and Benton counties in the state senate for many years,’was Tuest^y 51 elected to congress by the people of the teeth district, which is composed of Tippecanoe, Warren, Benton, Jasper, White, Porter and Lake counties. Mr. Wood’s plurality over Representative Peterson, at an early hour Wednesday morning, was estimated at 6,000. Throughout the district Mr. Wood was made the target of special attack. The administration ,exerted every effort to hold the district for the democratic party. The state machine was set in motion and it was given out that Wood must be defeated. Many of the state machine’s best workers were put into the district to aid the democratic cause. A desperate effort was made to turn the vote of organized labor against the republican candidate and at the same time the democrats gave every encouragement to Will Ade, the progressive candidate, who was expected to draw enough votes away from Wood to effect his defeat. Will Ade was by far the most progressive candidate* for congress in the state. He not only made a wonderful campaign, but he was not wanting foriflnancial support. Notwithstanding the allied opposition to Inspection, Mr. Wood scored, a great victory. The result in Lake county, where the people feel the effect of the democratic' tariff law, was decisive. It is believed that the republican candidate will come out of Lake with 4,500 plurality. At an early hour this morning his plurality in Tippecanoe county was estimated at 700.

Seventeen out of the 20 precincts in Jasper county give Mr. Wood a plurality of 324. The three missing precincts will not materially change the result. * One of the surprises of the day was the result in Newton county, which Wood carried by 133. As this is the home of Will Ade, the progressive. candidate, little expected there. Peterson carried White county by a narrow margin. Incomplete returns gave Wood a slight plurality in Benton. < Warren county added several hundred to Wood’s plurality.