Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — Republican Township Nomination. [ARTICLE]

Republican Township Nomination.

The republican township ticket nominated here Wednesday was as follows: Trustee, Charles M. Blue; assessor, Caleb A. Hopkins; Advisory board, Geo. W. Goff, J. C. Porter and Harvey Wood, (defeated trustee aspirants); Justice of the peace, J. M. Troxell; constables, Joseph Brooks, Alton Grant; road supervisors, Jesse Nichols, Ist dist., Albert Biggs, 2d, W. Parkison, 3d. The balloting for trustee was quite spirited, and four ballots were necessary to agree on choice, as follows: Ist 2d 3d 4th Charles M. Blue 116 151 169 175 J C Porter 73 71 70 66 GeoW Goff.... 76 78 72 71 Harvey Wood 69 61 45 37 Vote for,assessor: Caleb Hopkins 209 J W Cowden 158 The other nominations were made by acclamation. There seems to be a great deal of dissatisfaction among republicans over the methods alleged to have been used to nominate Blue. Schools were closed in various parts of the county to enable the teachers to attend the convention and vote for Blue—it made little difference whether the teacher resided in the township or not. It is also thought that the number of votes cast was rather large for the - number of people who voted, and many republicans who are not in sympathy w’ith any such questionable work are kicking lustily.