Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1918 — WHITE COUNTY FILLS TICKETS [ARTICLE]

WHITE COUNTY FILLS TICKETS

DEATH CAUSES VACANCIES ON BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC TICKETS. By the death Saturday of Rowland Benjamin, democratic candidate for recorder, and the death last night of Hervey Brannon, republican candidate for sheriff, vacancies were created on both the county tickets, and meetings of the precinct committeemen of both parties were held in this city today to select men to place on ■the tickets in the places of those deceased. Ben Price, Jr., who formerly served two terms as sheriff, was chosen by the Republicans as their candidate for sheriff, while Wm T. O’Dowd was selected by the Democrats as a candidate for recorder. These meetings would have been postponed a few days, but owing to the fact that tomorrow is the time to begin mailing ballots to soldiers and other absent voters, and that it requires considerable time for thp printers to reprint them, it was necessary that the work be done today. It is very seldom that a vacancy occurs by death from the time a ticket is nominated until election day and that two should occur is much out of the ordinary.—'Monday’s' Monticello Evening Journal.