Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1916 — NICHOLS LEADS AS COUNT NEARS FINISH [ARTICLE]

NICHOLS LEADS AS COUNT NEARS FINISH

Recount Drawing Toward Close and Republican Nominee Is Forging Steadily Ahead. The recount of the votes for the county clerk candidates, Hershman and Nichols, continued throughout Thursday and is still going on at the time The Republican went to press. It is hardly probable, however, that the vote will be finished before some time Saturday forenoon. Nichols at the recent election was adjudged the winner by four votes, after he had apparently lost the race to his opponent. Following the declaration that Nichols had won, Mr. Hershman filed a petition for a recount, which was granted. At noon today Mr. Nichols led by fifteen votes, a gain of eleven, but had slipped back until he only led by twelve votes following the count in Marion 4. Five more precincts remain to be counted. In Keener township ten ballots were thrown out as far as the county clerk was concerned, the way they were marked only counted for the head of the • tickets. Six of these that did not count were for Nichols and four of them for HerShman, which netted the latter a gain. of two votes. All of the ballots that were thrown out were mutilated in some way or the voter had failed to vote for either candidate.

The weather turned colder Thursday night as the weatherman had predicted, and the rain turned into snow and today has all the appearance of real winter.