Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1906 — A LITTLE CORRECTION, PLEASE. [ARTICLE]

A LITTLE CORRECTION, PLEASE.

The Kentland Enterprise Makes Unfounded Charges. Some Peculiar Facts. Tbe Jasper County Democrat made an .eleventh hour campaign against Prosecutor Graves—and Mr, Graves has hardly stopped running yet.—Kentland Enterprise. We want to correct the above statement of the Enterprise. The “campaign” was made by some very reputable people of Remington and Carpenter tp., and The Democrat simply published it at their request, But here are a few facts that we would like to have the Enterprise digest:

Mr. Graves run behind his party ticket in his own county in Iroquois, Washington, Jackson and McClellan townships, and ran slightly ahead in Jefferson, Grant, (both saloon towns) Beavef, Colfax and Lake. A peculiarity of the official vote of Newton county as published in the Enterprise shows that in Jefferson tp , (Kentland) Hershman received within 6 votes of the head of the democratic ticket, while Graves received 8 votes more than the head of the ticket or two votes more than were cast for Secretary of State. In Grant, Hersh man’s vote was precisely the same as that of the bead of the democratic ticket, while Graves received 11 votes more than were cast for the head of bis ticket. In Beaver tp., Hershman ran 18 behind his ticket, while Graves ran 31 ahead. Hershman’s entire vote in the county was but 4 behind the state ticket, while Graves’ was 22 more than the state ticket. A Goodland republican paper, in referring to the election, says: “A prosecuting attorney is known by bis friends.” This is somewhat ambiguous, and one must know the people who worked so zealously for Mr. Graves that he run 11 votes ahead of bis state ticket in that township—without taking a solitary vote from the democratic candidate, as shown by the vote for the democratic state ticket —to understand just what is meant by the above statement. It is unusual for a greater number of votes to be cast for the county ticket than are cast for the state ticket, yet here is a discrepancy of nearly 50 votes in three townships, and it cannot be accounted for by the prohibition vote going to Graves, for in Grant tp., only two prohibition votes were cast. We must agree with the the Enterprise that Graves has hardly stopped running yet.