Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1916 — COUNTY DIVIDED INTO 8 DISTRICTS [ARTICLE]

COUNTY DIVIDED INTO 8 DISTRICTS

Election Commissioners Spend Considerable Time in Es frt to Equalize Representation.

The election commissioners, C. C. .Warner, republican; J. J. Hunt, democrat, and Judson H. Perkins, also a republican but a member of the board by virtue of being the county clerk, met Wednesday and spent some time in an effort to make an equitable division of the delegates to the state convention. There will be eight delegates to that convention from Jasper county and it is a duty of the election commissioners to make the distribution as evenly as possible according to the votes cast at the last election. They found it quite a task and when completed had arranged for one delegate from each of the following groups: Kankakee, Gillam and Walker townships. Wheatfield and Keener townships. Union township. Carpenter township. Milroy, Jordan and the third precinct of Marion. Maribn second and foutrh precincts. Barkley and Hanging Grove. Newton and Marion first precinct. While the voting strengths are far from etjual in some respects, it was

■ the best division that could be made, the board decided, without splitting up the precincts or having the delegates w’ith fractional voting strength, which is not contemplated by the law. It will be necessary for any persons who want to go as delegates to the state convention to see in which group he resides and then to file his petition to go as a delegate. The petition must be signed by ten persons who are members of the party whose convention the petitioner wants to attend and one of the petimust sign an oath before a notary or other person entitled to administer oaths that he voted for the majority of the candidates of that party the year before and expects to do so at the coming election and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the other petitioners also voted for the majority of the candidates of the party. The signatures must be in ink and must contain the residenceaddress of the petitioner set opposite his name. The petition must be filed at least twenty days before the date of the primary. The petition shall be in substantially the following form: