Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1916 — Drys Protest Tie Vote So Votes Will Be Recounted. [ARTICLE]

Drys Protest Tie Vote So Votes Will Be Recounted.

Washington, Ind., April 3. —Declaring that a majority of the legal votes cast at last Wednesday’s local option election, in Washington, which resulted in a-tie vote of 1,122 for each side, favored prohibiting the sale of liquor, and that the counting of illegal votes changed the result of the election, A. D. Fulkerson and Levi F. Potts, Monday filed with the board of county commissioners a petition for a recount of the ballots. The petition was granted and the recount begun. The wets opposed the order for a recount, although they .declared a recount will show the city voted wet by a small margin. The drys say the recount will show the wets were defeated by three votes.