Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1908 — A NEWTON COUNTY OPINION. [ARTICLE]

A NEWTON COUNTY OPINION.

At the election last Thursday for a senator from this district A. J. Law, of this county, won over Abe Halleck, republican, of Jasper county, by a majority of 62. White county gave Haljeck a majority of 148, Starke county a majority of 6, Jasper county, Halleck’s home county, gave Law a majority of 66, and Newton county gave Law a majority of 160. Only one township in Newton county gave Halleck a majority, Iroquois 51. The democrats are jubilant over the victory, but they should not be, for the reason that it was the republicans that gave it to them. Nor it a campaign issue that caused a republican district that is normally 1.500 to the good to turn down their own candidate and place a democrat in the official chair to represent them. It was the man Halleck. Wether merited or not, the people of this section have a distrust of this man, and rather than place a man in the senatorial chair of whom they had not every confidence, they voted the democrat ticket. If Abe Halleck has the best interests of the party at heart, he will resign and let another man fill - the place, and not drag down the ticket in defeat next November. It is up to Mr. Halleck to say if a second dose shall be administered. —Brook Reporter (Rep.)