Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1916 — 3591 WILL GET TO VOTE IN JASPER [ARTICLE]

3591 WILL GET TO VOTE IN JASPER

3591 Jasper Voters Will Be Eligible to Vote in Coming Election— Increase Over 1912. The returns from the twenty county precincts following registration day last Monday shows that there will be« 3591 "voters in Jasper county eligible to vote at the election in November. This is an increase over the last presidential election, when 3297 voters of Jasper county cast their ballot for one of the various presidential candidates, which means that the total vote cast this year by the voters of this county will be 294 more, providing that each voter in 1912 voted for a presidential candidate, than were cast in the 1912 election, providing that all those eligible vote., Of course in the 1912 election the republican party was split up, due to the forming of a progressive party, which fact probably kept some voters away from the polls. However, these

figures, comparing the ballots cast ih 1912, and the present year should serve to show that the voting population of Jasper county has increased some. Basing our comparison on the relative vote of 1912 and 1916 it will readily be seen that practically every voter in the county required to do so, registered Monday. Reports throughout the state indicate that at least 95 per cent of the voters of the state, required to register Monday for various reasons did so. It is probable that the registration of voters of Jasper county ran even higher than 95 per cent, and the general opinion is that almost one hundred per cent took advantage of their opportunity Monday. ~ = The following will serve to show the number of voters eligible to vote from each of the twenty precinets m Jasiper county at the coming election: Barkley, East 217 Barkley, West 149 Carpenter, East 190 Carpenter, West .2‘it Carpenter, South 252 Gillam 154 Hanging Grove 104 Jordan 56Kankakee 14l Keener 235 Marion, No. 1 308 Marion, No. 2 .375' Marion, No. 3 .".... 230 Marion, No. 4 .252 Milroy . ..' 9^ Newton 169 Union, North .156 Union, South ..' 174 Walker 192 Wheatfield 291

Total vote of county 3,591. There have 'been some charges made against the democrats ih various parts of the state charging them with not having abided by. the registration laws. No trouble between the political parties of this county has been reported and everything ran off smoothly. # The current issue of The Monticello Herald, however, states that high handed methods were used in that county arid charges democratic party workers advised registration inspectors to throw off legally j appointed clerks and put illegal I clerks on the registration board in their stead. In many places inspectors followed the advice which their county organization had given them and pursued the court which the county chairman himself, openly said he would pursue and put tff the legally appointed republican clerks to make room for the democratic clerks on the board, clearly in violation of the registration law and absolutely repudicratic party in Indiana, through its state chairman, made in writing. Such high handed methods, continued the Herald, were never before attempted in' White county arid ; those who were present Monday in many registration places early in the morning sgw the sad spectacle of legally appointed clerks being forced aside, and illegal, unlawful clerks put in their places.