Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — LOSE ELECTION CONTEST. [ARTICLE]

LOSE ELECTION CONTEST.

Cass County Republicans Must Pay Costs Recount Increases Margins. Logansport, Ind., Feb. 20. Judge Joseph P. Wason of Delphi. presiding in the election contest case in the Cass circuit court Saturday evening, declared Marvin M. Minnick, county treasurer, and Harry E. Burkit, record-er-elect, elected and assessed the costs against Fred Hammontree and O. M. Shirley, Republicans, who had contested their election. The canvassing board, following the election, last November, declared Burkit elected by a majority of six and M innick by a majority of seventeen. In the recount the majorities of Burkit and Minnick, instead of being reduced, were increased. Minnick’s majority, according to the recount, is thirty-two and Burkit’s thirty-nine. The costs and attorneys’ fees are about one thousand dollars.