Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — PRIMARY ELECTION IS PASSING OFF QUIETLY [ARTICLE]

PRIMARY ELECTION IS PASSING OFF QUIETLY

But Little Interest Is Being Aroused In Election Today, Due to Fact There Is No Competition. A very ©mail vote is being cast at the primary election here today. In ward No. 2 there had boon but thirtyseven votes cast up to 1 o’clock. Of this number five were democratic and thirty-two republican. There is but one contest in this city and that is for .the republican namination for city clerk. The candidates are Charles M. Morlan. the present clerk, and Attomev E. M. La Rue.