Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1916 — Hoosiers All Lose Their Vote On President. [ARTICLE]

Hoosiers All Lose Their Vote On President.

A lot of Indiana voters will no doubt experience a distinct shock after they have perused this paragraph. In view of what has happened, so far as the presidency is concerned, we might as well have been residents of Patagonia and had no part in the campaign. Both Hoosier republicans and Hoosier democrats, every one of them, lost their presidential vote, and really had no choice in the election of a president. It happened in this way: The democrats voted for Mr. Wilson and the state went republican, republican presidential electors being chosen, who will cast the state vote for Hughes, so the democrats are out of it. Mr. Hughes will not have a sufficient number of votes in the electoral college and Wilson will be elected, so the republicans are also out of it. IPs fiftyfifty for we Hoosiers on this presidential stuff. We’re all in the same boat and we all lose.