Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — DON’T WANT TO GIVE IT UP [ARTICLE]

DON’T WANT TO GIVE IT UP

W. F. Osborne Contests DeVire Yeoman's Election. ELECTED BY 29 MAJORITY As County Surveyor Over Osborne, the Present Incumbent and Candidate for Re-election—Claims Mr. Yeoman is a Non-Resident. ••: •; ' . ;■ •. •' : •V . W. F. Osborne, defeated candidate for re-election as county surveyor of Jasper county, filed notice of contest last Friday of the election of his successful democratic opponent, DeVere Yeoman, on the grounds, the papers state, that Mr. Yeoman is not a resident and legally qualified voter of Jasper county, and therefore not entitled to the office; that the contestor is a legal voter and resident of the said county and should be declared the legally elected surveyor. The notice of contest was filed with the auditor and is to the county commissioners, and the matter will come up before the board of county commissioners on the second day of their regular meeting in December, Tuesday, December 3. Mr. Yeoman defeated Mr. Osborne in the election by a majority of 29, and there is no question about this | majority being correct. The voters of the county decided that they wanted Yeoman and did not want Mr. Osborne. For the past year or more Mr. Yeoman has been employed temporarily in Gary, Hammond and South Bend, but has always considered Rensselaer his home and registered and voted here. For some time he has been working for a sewer construction company at Hammond and has been superintending a big sewer contract at South Bend, from which place he came home to register, to to make his campaign and to vote. He studied civil engineering at Purdue and his experience since in this line of work in Lake county and elsewhere during the past year or more has been such as to make him still better fitted to fill the office of county surveyor. Mr. Osborne’s actiom in filing a j contest on the grounds that he sets ! forth in his complaint is not looked ' upon with much favor by the people generally and it is thought that he has been; poorly advised, that is, if he has done so on the adviec of ' others. In the event of the commissioners deciding adversely to the contestor, it is his intention, it is said, to appeal to the cirucit court. Mr. Yeoman was married about a year ago to Miss Blanche McCarthy of Rensselaer, who has spent a part of the time since then with her husband at the different places where he has been employed temporarily. She has been here a great deal, however, and all of the time for the past couple of months.