Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments I , OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County ! Offices. I I , - , New suits filed: No. 7923. William E. Marion vs. Marion Barlow; suit in conversion, plaintiff alleging that defendant took and carried away five tons of hay belonging to plaintiff. —o— . . j C. E. Newton of the Monticello Journal was over Wednesday afternoon filing the petition cf John O. Bowers, B. M. Candidate for congress. Not having been in the field before the Prigressives must get their ticket on the ballot by petition. Two hundred names were necessary ion the congressional ticket, and 25 names for the county ticket. Today is the last day for filing nominations.

—o— The state ballot this year will contain six tickets and there will be 26 names on each ticket except the socialist labor ticket, which only has the names of the two electors-at-large and a state ticket, omitting the 13 district electors and the reporter for the supreme court and one judge for the appellate court. Our own county ballot will contain five tickets, democrat, republican, prohibition, socialist and progressive. The prohibition ticket only has one name, that of William P. Harkrider of Fowler, candidate ‘for Congress. The socialist candidate for congress—the only nomination filed—is Alfred J. Marke of Indiana Harbor. In the 1910 election the prohibitionists only cast 42 votes in Jasper county and the socialists 4 votes. In order to get on the ballot without petition it is necessary for the party to have cast one per cent of the total vote of the state, district or county, as the case may be, at the last previous election, and while the socialists cast but four votes in Jasper county in 1910, they cast several hundred in the district.