Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 7 November 1906 — Page 1

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The Democrats won the election in this county in most cases by the usual majority. At no time after the returns began to appear was there anything to give the Republicans elation to any marked degree although they appeared to believe there was going to be a political land slide from the Democratic ranks for the State ticket. The returns came in slowly. The first

Green township. This showed a Republican net gain of 9 and kept that party's spirits at high tide for two hours and the Democrats were correspondingly dejected. Judge Felt said, "Two more reports like that and I'll concede a landslide." They failed to come, however. •In fact nothing reliable v\tes reported from the county until about 10 o'clock when five pre-

Republicans Fail To Hold Their Own at Tuesday's Election.

WAFSON STUMBLES OVER IN WAYNE

And Goes Back to Washington With a Greatly Reduced Majority Finding Kuhn More Formidable Than Expected.

Democrats Have a Scare Early in Evening but Come Out with Flying Colors and the County Continues the Gibraltar of Old.

precinct to report was No. 2 in 600 votes to the good, Cox 500

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the Arcade, the Republican headquarters, reports continued to arrive that were decidedly pleasing to that party and the leaders there believed they were going to win.

At 8 o'clock Chairman Rock conceded Kuhn a majority of 250 and Sims 275. He claimed the county for the Republicans Lawrence Wood for the DemoDemocrats said Kuhn would be

and the entire Democratic ticket elected. Charley Tindall, Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, was not sure of his election and appeared more concerned than any of the candidates on either ticket.

The Democrats had arrangements at the court room for securing the returns from the various States. Geofge A. Carr

oincts came in most of them ij read the bulletins furnished by showing a gain for rhe Demo the Western Union. Marion crats over the vote for Parker, {county and New York were the From that time on good cheer Jonly results awaited with much replaced dejecliun at Democrat- interest. The court room at one ic headquarters and all unfav* (time was filled with men, ^ut jRgpuljlicjji wafers at not more or'able messages were pro- (by 10 clock the crowd was than 200. They will loose by a nounced grape vines.pOver in thinned and n.ot to exceed fifty' small margin.

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remained and most of them were packed into the judge's office in the rear of the court room. Judge Felt, Elmer Swope, Judge elect Mason and others received, tabulated and compared the vote.

At the Republican headquarters the small rooms were packed until midnight. Walter G. Bridges, Will A. Hughes, George W. Duncan and others kept tab on the returns and Col. E. P. Thayer from his office across the hall kept in communi cation with State headquarters and received the first reliable information in regard to New York and Marion county. The Republicans were delighted with the reported result in New York—^Hearst defeated and Democratic State ticket elected. "Best thing that could have happened, for it settles Hearst forever," was the sentiment on all sides. Several reports from the county there showed great gains for the Republicans and it ,was the opinion for three hours that Jenkins was elected prosecutor without doubt.

The vote for Watson, Kuhn and Daily, for Congress, was not awaited with any degree of nterest as there was no unusual marking of these ballots expected.

The official vote was given out at 11:30 today when the commissioners completed their work of counting the votes. The commissioners spent the night in the jury room of the court house. They were clerk, John M. Hall,

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Sample and N. R. Spencer.

Will Dye and Capt. Walter Bragg were assistants. As soon as a precinct was countd the inspector brought the vote to the commissioners and it was at once, counted 1 An adding machine was used and the work verified by Capt. Bragg, who is acknowledged to be the most rapid and accurate man with figures in Hancock county.

The official vote shows Mr. Mason to have received 203. more votes than Mr. Binford. Most of the bets made on this office were on Mr. Mason's majority it being placed by the

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CHARLES H. TROY

Mr. Kuhn for Congress ceived fche largest plurality Charley Tindall made a good showing after all, his majority being 138.

Linza Walker for commissioner was the low man, his majori ty beitag but 72

The Prohibitionists cast 193 votes for secretary of state and 222 for Benjamin F. Dailey for Congress.

The Socialist cast 13 votes in Hancock county. The Socialist-Labor ticket received 8 votes.

The People's ticket received 4 votes. On the amendment to the Constitution there were 204 in favor and 62 against.

The vote published in this paper is official. Congressman Watson has been re-elected to Congress from the Sixth district by the smallest plurality the district has ever given A fight was made upon Watson in Wayne county.

Wayne county being the banner Republican county of the district could under ordinary circumstances be looked upon to roll up a plurality of from 2,500 to 3,500 for Congressman, but as a result of the Richmond fight Watson was unmercifully cut in almost every precinct in the city and fell behind in many of the country districts. What Wayne county was unable to do, several other counties in the district did for her and according to Mr. Watson's estimate made at 3 o'lock he will win by a plurality of 1,507 Wayne county's contribution to the plurality of the district will be less than 400, according, to Chairman Gardner's estimate.

The official count from the counties of the district at 3 p. m. as given over the phone by Mr. Watson, is as follows: Decatur, Republican 515. Fayette, ffe 723. Henry, 1309.

Rush, Union, Wayne, Franklin, Democratic, Hancock, Shelby,

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247. 358. 715. 427. 602.

The Republican plurality in

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Indiana, as nearly as it can be calculated by State Chairman Goodrich from returns received from all parts'of the State except the Twelfth District, is about 30 000.

Fred Landis, candidate for Congress in the Eleventh District, has been snowed under. The election of George W Rauch is conceded by at least 1,000. The knife was wielded freely all over the district.

J. A. M. Adair has dethroned Comer in the Ninth and has been elected congressman from the

cracy have surprised the political leaders by their action this year. Notable among them are Wabash, Grant, Delaware, Randolph, Wayne,, Howard and Huntington Counties. While these counties did not go Demo cratic, their time-honored Re publican pluralities were pared down until the result was simply astonishing to the politicians.

Delaware County, for exam pie, gave a Republican plurality of 4,000 in 1904 in round num bers. This year the Republican plurality is less than 2,000 Randolph County, two years ago, rolled up a Republican plu rality of 2,600.," This year there was a falling off of 700 in the Republican vote. Wabash County should have gone Republican, based on former years, bv l,500 votes, but it narrowly escaped going Democratic tin year.

The Republican managers are at a loss to estimate the cause

HORACE F. W1CKARD.

Ninth district by pluralties esti-: ism in the Eight and Eleventh/ mated at from 2,500 to 3,000. districts. The efforts to get a The reports which came into! lick at Cromer caused many to State headquarters today were vote the straight Democratic more favorable to the Republi- ticket. In no section of the cans than any that 4iad been re- State was the full Republican, ceived. vote polled.

The liquor forces of the State Chairman Goodrich estimates were active in the election and their influence was felt chiefly in the centers of population. To their activity and to the congressional fights in the Eighth and Eleventh districts is attributed the reduction of the Re publican vote on the State ticket below the estimates that had been made by the party leaders.

Counties which have never some 300 Republican plurality, before winked towards Demo The reports from Congression^

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of this slump in the Republican^, strongholds. It is attributed in large measure to the liquor* vote. In Randolph County this cause was especially manifest.. There was a good deal of dissatisfaction among the saloon men and their allies over the effective exercise of the remonv. strance feature of the Moore law and all of the saloon men, and their allies lined up for the Democratic candidates.

Another cause -if the loss of^ Republican votes for the State ticket was the fierce factional-

that not over 80 per cent of the Republicans of the State exercised the right of franchise yesterday. Other leaders estimate the "stay-at homes" at 40 per cent of the Republican voting population. Tipton County furnished a bright spot in the election returns. Though normally Democratic it has giveit

al districts indicates that John L. Foster will have 1.O00 majority in the First John C. Chaney has been elected by a plurality of 500 to 1,000. A. L. Brick telephoned from South Bend that he has a safe ma-* jority.

W. E. Cox (Dem is elected in the Third, Lincoln Dixon (Dem.) in the Fourth, ttlias S. HoMiday (Rep.) in the Fifth, James E. Watson (Rep.) in the Sixth, Jesse Overstreet (Rep.) in the Ninth and E. D. Crumpacker (Rep in tue T^nih. ^iThe Democrats have gauied at least fifteen members in Congress and four or live other districts are in dount

The IXiui cr.iuc gains so far indicated are two in Indiana, two in

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five in Pennsylvania, one in Ohio, one in New York, one in New Jersey, one in North Carolina and one in Nebraska.

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