Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1908 — THE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTIONS.

While the greatest American citizen and patriot of modern times, William Jennings Bryan, has again went down to defeat for the highest office within the gift of the American people, his name will live la the history of this republic long after the names of Rockefeller, Carnagie, et al. have passed into oblivion. The great trusts and combinations of the country have once ■sere won a signal triumph over the people. Money, the calamity sry, the 760,000 federal office-hold-ers, the ignorant foreign vote, the niggers and a considerable portion es the dollar-and-a-quarter class of laboring men have decided the electeen adversely to the interests of the great majority of the people. There is some cause for demoerats rejoicing in Indiana, where Thomas R. Marshall Is elected governor by a substantial majority, despite that unholy alliance of the "anti-saloon league,” the Methodist eburch, etc., and it is probable that a gain of four congressmen will be made, the indications being that the democrats win in the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, 7th, Bth, 11th, 12th, and 13th districts.

Crumpacker is re-elected by a reduced plurality. The republicans concede the election of Marshall for governor in Indiana, and are only claiming the state for Taft by some 3,000, and this may be reduced. Halleck, republican, is elected from this district to the state senate by about 240 majority, the normal majority being about 2,500. He carried Jasper county by 110, Newton by 99, Starke 10 and White 20. Gerber is defeated for representative by a few hundred votes. The democrats in Newton county elect the treasurer and sheriff, and Taft only carries that county by 449, Watson by 234. The republican majority was also cut down considerably all along the line in our .own county. The election reports published in •our news columns is approximately •sorrect, but may be changed somewhat by official count.