Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — REPUBLICANS SWEPT COUNTY AND STATE [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS SWEPT COUNTY AND STATE

County Ticket is Elected by Over whelming Majorities. Republican State Ticket Carries By Almost 800 Majority

True D. Woodworth, Republican Candidate Has 743 Majority Over His Democratic Opponent William I. Hoover. Republicans Elect Nine out of the Thirteen Township Trustees. Editor John Bowie, of Wheatfield, Among the Successful Democratic Candidates for Trustee. Jordan Township Elects Julius Huff Trustee, the First Republican to be Elected to that Office in that Township for the Past Forty Years or More. Some one hundred and thirty tickets were mailed to absent soldiers and about seventy-five were returned to be counted at the election. ' ■ „ O C. W. Postill defeated C. F. Stackhouse by one hundred, and ninety votes for trustee of this township. Stackhouse was put forward as a sure winner by the Democrats, but Postill took, his measure. Burdett Porter, of Carpenter; John Rush, of Newton; Warren Poole, of Hanging Grove, and C. E. of Keener, Republican candidates for township trustee, were re-elected. Grant Davisson, of was the only Democratic trustee that was able to repeat. The following candidates for re-elec-tion were defeated: John Kolhoff, Democrat, of Jordan, and G. H. Hammerton, Republican, of Union. Indiana Was carried by the Republican ticket by 50,000 majority. Republicans seem to have increased the representation in the lower branch of congress from nine to ten and possibly eleven.. -•- In Michigan Truman H. Newberry has defeated Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate, and in Hlinois Medill McCormick has defeated J. Hamilton Lewis. Both defeated candidates were Democrats and were strongly endorsed by President Woodrow Wilson. It looks like Champ Clark, of Missouri, and Speaker of the National House of Representatives, has been defeated. Joseph Folk, Democratic candidate for senator from the same state, may be defeated. Republicans will have a majority of twenty or more in the lower house of congress, while the senate seems to be divided 50-50, or rather 48 Republicans and 48 Democrats. Whitman, Republican, seems to have been defeated governor of New York. Newton county ejected the entire Republican ticket. Pulaski and Benton are also strongly Republican. Congressman "Will R. Wood, not endorsed by President Woodrow Wilson, is re-elected by the largest majority ever given in this district. The votes on the county ticket were, in part, as follows:

Clerk Circuit Court— -i/A. D. Hershman, D. ...1133 Jesse Nichols, R.. 1733 Nichols’ majority. g 600 County Auditor— B. Frank Alter, DIO6B S. C. 'Robinson, R 1774 Robinson’s majority7ll County Treasurer — John T. Biggs, R. 1875 Sheriff— t Wm. I. Hoover, D. 1074 True D. Woodworth, R. %1817 Woodworth’s majority .... 743 Coroner— > Leo O. Worland, D. .1092 Willis J. Wright, R’. .1766 Wright’s majority 674 Surveyor— Edgar D. Nesbitt, R. 1887 Assessor— George W. Casey, D. z 1056 G. L. Thornton, R. 1777 Thornton’s majority 721 Commissioner 2nd district— O. K. Rainier, DIO7O Bert Amsler, R.. 1771 Amslert majority7ol Commissioner '3rd district— Moses Sign, D 1063 Charles Welch, R. .-.1767 Welch’s majority 704