Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — ELECTION RETURNS. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION RETURNS.

The Jasper County Telephone Co., will throw its lines open free to the public next Tuesday night for election returns. Some extra ’phones will be installed in the rear room of the telephone office and volunteers of both parties will be stationed at these instruments to take the messages, which will be sent through from Indianapolis. These will be taken down and sent by volunteer messengers to the respective headquarters agreed upon for receiving them. The democrats will receive messages at Chairman Littlefield’s office. Returns should begin to come in about six o’clock Erie county, N. Y., and many other counties in that state, as well as counties In other states, and Marion and several counties in Indiana, including our neighboring county of Newton, have voting machines, and the results there will be known in a very few minutes after the polls close. The per cent, of losses or gains in the big counties of the plvotlcal states will soon give an indication of what the result is to be. It is likely that enough will be known by midnight at least to determine the result.