Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — FIVE TICKETS IN JASPER COUNTY [ARTICLE]

FIVE TICKETS IN JASPER COUNTY

No Shortage of Local Candidates in Present Campaign ALL HAVE SOME SUPPORTERS Democrats and Republicans Have Full Tickets and Other Three Parties Have Partial Tickets. There are five tickets in the field in Jasper county this election, or, rather, two full tickets and three part tickets. The Democrats and Republicans each have full tickets; the Progressives have only a candidate for congress, John G. Brown of Monon; the Prohibitionists have nearly a full ticket—lsaac S. Wade of Lafayette for congress, John Dickinson of Remington for joint representative, Fred H. Beard of Rensselaer for clerk; Edgar S. Thornton of Surrey for treasurer, John W. Norman of Rensselaer for recorder, Charles H. Leavel of Rensselaer for sheriff, and William W. Reeve of Rensselaer for commissioner for the first district. The Socialists have only a candidate for congress, Erwin S. Whitmer of Indiana Harbor.

There will be but two ballots this year, no township ticket being elected. The state ballot will be printed on PINK paper and will contain the names of the Presidential electors under their respective emblems as well as the state ticket proper. The county ballot wilt be printed on WHITE paper and will contain the name of each candid? te for congress, joint representative and prosecuting attorney as wel' as the county ticket proper.

Through a misunderstanding Democratic County Chairman Welsh appointed B. F. Fendig as election commissioner to serve for the coming election but it was later discovered that former Chairman F. R. Erwin had appointed J. J. Hunt to serve as such commissioner for 1916, and the primary election law provides that the commissioners appointed to serve for the primary shall also serve at the regular election. Mr. Erwin had appointed Mr. Hunt as such commissioner before Mr. Welsh was elected chair,man, as the work for the primary came up before the latter was elected. When the commissioners

met Monday to make up the ticket it was found that there really was no vacancy, and the deputy clerk took the matter up with County Attorney Williams who held that Mr. Hunt was the legal commissioner, ■so he and Commissioners C. C. Warner and Charles Morlan, the latter acting for the cleik, prepared the ballot.