Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1916 — DEMOCRATS NAME A COUNTY TICKET [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS NAME A COUNTY TICKET

Farcical Primary Law Shown By .Methods Necessary to Have Ticket in Field This Fall. Saturday some thirty or thirty-five democrats from different parts of Jasper county met at the court house and drafted a ticket for the party. Although the ticket is to be the one that will run at the fall election, it will ibe necessary that itbeon the election ballot for the primary to be held on March 7th. In years past under the delegate method of nomination it was a common thing for almost a full convention to be present when the democratic county ticket was nominated. The primary law was based upon the idea that it would give all members of the party a chance to vote for ,their candidates and eliminate the plan of only one hundred or two hundred people naming the ticket and yet here was a case when the entire ticket was named by only a small number of persons. This is no discredit to them, nor to the men they chose to run for the various offices but it shows that the very thing which the law sought to avert is now necessary in order to get a ticket in the field at all. Those decided upon at the convention are understood to 'be John G. Culp for sheriff, W. D. Bringle for recorder, Devere Yeoman for surveyor, Robert J. Yeoman for commissioner of the second district, Dr. A. P. Rainier for county coroner and S. A. Brusnahan for treasurer. There was also some talk of T. F. Maloney, of Kankakee township, for commissioner of the first district, but neither he nor Mr. Brusnahan have so far filed their declaration with the county clerk. The others named above have filed. Others who may want to run can file any time up to and including Saturday, Feb. sth. ' Republicans so far filed are George W. Scott for recorder, Charles V. May for treasurer, Ben D. McColly for sheriff, Edgar Nesbitt for surveyor, H. W. Marble for commissioner first district, D. 8. Makeever for com mis - sioner second district, Dr. C. E. Johnson for coroner. There will be no auditor, clerk or assessor elected this year. It is necessary for persons who want to attend the state or congressional convention or who desire to be precinct committeemen or road supervisors to file their declarations by Saturday of this week. Chairman McLain, of the republican central committee, will be glad to help any candidate prepare his petition and see that it gets on fije. A number of Marion township republicans met Saturday afternoon at the court house and talked oyer party agairs, arranging for precinct committeemen and delegates to the state convention. Among those so far anhouneed as delegates to the state convention, are J. D. Allman and George H. Healey, of the second and fourth precincts, constituting the fourth district. One to be elected. Moses Leopold and Clarence P. Fate are running againts each other in the third district composed of Milroy and Jordan townships and the third precinct of Marion. Jesse Nichols is announced from the Marion first and Newton township. Waltre S. McConnell has filed from Union township and John Greve from eKener and Wheatfield. Persons can file up to twenty days before the date of the primary for delegate to the state convention.