Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — PLURALITY OF 8,000 PREDICTED [ARTICLE]

PLURALITY OF 8,000 PREDICTED

For John B. Peterson In Tenth Indiana District. REPUBLICAN VOTE IS DIVIDED And Democratic Congressional Committ te Teels Certain Democrat Will Ik- Elected. Chicago. Oct. 9.—John B. Peterson of Crown Point will be the next representative in congress from the Tenth district of Indiana, instead of Edgar Dean ■Crumpacker, is the assertion made by the chairman and secretary of the Democratic National congressional committee, after obtaining a full and reliable report of conditions in each of the counties comprising the district. So confident are the managers of the congressional campaign of this fact that they are now turning their attention to some of the close districts in Illinois where they hope to overturn republican majorities of as long standing as those that have been the custom in the Tenth Indiana. .. It was stated today that a careful investigation of conditions in the Tenth Indiana district shows that the Republican vote will be divided pretty nearly equally between Crumpacker and and the Progressive candidate, Bowers, although it is conceded that the latter is gaining strength in the cities and Industrial centers. While the congressional committee like the national committee, has very little mondy to use, it is eo sure of its ground in the Tenth Indiana district that it will put eome money into the district to be used in a legitimate way to forward the candidacy of Judge Peterson. Two years ago, when Judge Peterson was also a candidte against Rep. Crumpacker he h succeeded in reducing the normal republican congressional majority in that district to 2,030, the vote of 1910 standing as follows: Crumpacker 27,772; Peterson 25,742. Since that election, La Porte county has been taken out of the Tenth district and attached to the South Bend district. In the presidential election of La Porte county gave Taft a majority of 144 votes,, but gave Peterson a small majority in 1910, so that its exclusion from the district does not materially alter the fighting chance for a Democrat this year. There is said to be a decided gain in Democratic votes this year and the former republican vote will probably be split about even. In view ofi these facta the congressional com-!

mittee feels waranted in claiming the district this year by a pluralityof not less than 8,000. ' The Democratic committee having in charge the Congressional campaign claims that Judge Peterson will carry every county in the district and that Bowers will probably run third, although his strength in the industrial cities of Lake county is conceded. One thing that is going to cut quite a figure in the Tenth district vote this year and especially in Lake county is ..the fact that the new Indiana registration ilaw is going to cut off a large number of votes heretofore cast by foreigners and others in the industrial centers, which vote has always been controlled and voted to a large extent by the industrial corporations in the interest of the republican party. The democratic congressional committee is in possession of all the facts bearing on the political situation in the Tenth district and is closely watching the progress ofi events in that territory. The probabilities are that the district will be flooded with democratic spellbinders during the last two weeks of the campaign in the interest of Judge Peterson’s candidacy.