Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1906 — REPUBLICANS WIN [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS WIN

But By Greatly Red deed Pluralities. DEMOCRATIC 6AINS OVER STATE, And Republicans Will Have Only Small Majority In the Legislature.—Results In This and Neighboring Counties. In the election Tuesday a very light vote was cast all over the state, while in our own county the republican plurality of 795 two years ago was cut down to 436, and the pluralities on the county ticket as usual were still lower, but the entire republican county ticket was elected. The total vote two years ago in the county was 3,645, against 2,523 this year. The stay-at-home vote apportioned among the three leading parties shows a loss of 350 for the democrats; 710 for the republicans; 57 for the prohibitionists. The official vote of the county at the bottom of this page gives the vote by precincts for all the candidates. Not much of interest was manifested in the township offices, advisory boards, justice of the peace and constables, and reports from the different townships are not available at this time. In Marion township, Haratio Ropp, democrat, defeated Christie Vick for constable, and John Healy gave John H. Thornton a chase for justice, but all the republicans won out except Mr. Vick. The constitutional amendment ticket, on the bottom of the state ballot, did not receive much attention, and only 589 votes were cast in the entire county on the proposition—sll for to 78 against. The democrats have made great gains throughout the country and in Indiana and in some or our neighboring couqties, as will be seen from the returns published in this paper. Hearst was defeated for governor of New York by about 40,000 plurality, according to latest returns, but the balance of the democratic ticket was elected. Indiana is carried by the republicans by about 25,000. Oklahoma elected the entire democratic ticket. George Hersh man made a good race for prosecutor in this county, as the returns show. His opponent’s plurality in Newton county was 439. Judge Darroch was defeated for congress, of course, in this district, but Crumpacker’s plurality of some 10,000 two years ago was cut to about 4,000. The democrats gain a congress man in the eighth and eleventh districts, giving them four of the thirteen districts. Fred Landis, one of the four notorious stand-pat-on-the-tariff-and-government-pay- roll brothers, lost out in his big republican district, while 0. B. Landis of the ninth got through by a decreased plurality, and it is said that there is already a move on foot to retire both Crump acker and Landis at the end of the terms to which they have just been elected. In Newton county Chas. Spinney, democrat was re-elected treas-

urer by 320, and A. D. Washburn, democrat, was elected commissioner by 60. All the rest of the republican ticket was eleeted by reduced majorities. In White county thp democrats elect recorder, clerk and sheriff, while the republicans elect treasurer, coroner, assessor, surveyor and the two commissioners. The county went republican on the state ticket by 310, but Crumpacker’s plurality was only 186, and Meeker's 225. Pulaski county democrats elected everything but sheriff. W. J. Reed, formerly of Jordan township, this county, defeated Simon Bybee, republican, for prosecutor of Pulaski and Starke counties, by a small plurality—s 3. Judge Palmer was defeated for re-election of the Carroll-White judicial circuit by 41 plurality, James P. Wason, of Delphi, bei,ng the lucky candidate. Thomas, republican, for prosecutor, was re-elected. , Our old friend James Saunderson was elected judge of the Ben-ton-Warren circuit court over Ele Stansbury, republican, by 369 majority. He carried his home county of Benton by 721. Benton went 250 republican on the state ticket, but the democrats elected their county ticket except treasurer, clerk and surveyor by majorities of 17 to 175. * Starke county elected its entire republican ticket. Crumpacker carried Lake county by only 848 votes. The democrats elected Ed Simon representative and F. S. Carter sheriff.