Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1920 — RECOUNT RACE NEAR RUNAWAY [ARTICLE]

RECOUNT RACE NEAR RUNAWAY

Crown Point, Ind., June B—Frank Mcllroy’s .second race for the nomination for state senator began to take on the aspect of a tunaway before the commission called it a day yesterday in recounting the votes in the contest between Mcllroy and C. Oliver Holmes. The Hammond candidate? led' by 57 votes when the curtain fell last night The remaining seven precincts of Gary netted Mr McHroy ten votes and the two precincts of Lowell gave him eleven. It seems that Tom Grant was running so strong in Lowell that the election board Semite Shir L“cin them to bother to call off the cross marks which had been placed after » «. East Chicago’s precincts. After East Chicago come Hobart, which' -trill finish the recount and place the whole thing in the hands of the court.