Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1916 — NICHOLS ELECTED BY EIGHT VOTES [ARTICLE]

NICHOLS ELECTED BY EIGHT VOTES

Over A. 0. Hershman in Recount for Clerk. REPORT MADE LATE FRIDAY While Disappointing to Democrats and Many Republicans, They Are Better Satisfied with Recount. The commissioners appointed by Judge Hanley to make a recount of the votes cast in Jasper county for clerk of the Jasper circuit court, made their report Friday evening and gave Mr. Nichols a plurality of eight over his Democratic opponent, Alva D. Hershman. This is a gain of four votes for Mr. Nichols over his plurality as shown on the face of the returns reported by the election boards of the various precincts. The report was signed by all three of the commissioners and, while disappointing to the Democrats and scores of Republicans who supported Mr. Hershman, all feel better satisfied with the recount than they did before it was made, notwithstanding Mr. Nichols has gained thereby. The commissioners counted some ballots for each that had been thrown out by the local boards and a number of ballots that had been counted by the latter were thrown out by the commissioners. On the face of the official returns as made, IHershman received 1,675 and Nichols 1,679 votes. The recount gave Hershman 1,661, a loss of fourteen, and Nichols 1,669, a loss of ten. F. H. Beard, on the Prohibition ticket, received seventeen votes. Following are the figures of both the official returns and the recount, the first column under each name being the election board returns and the second column the Vote as determined in the recount: Hershman| Nichols .■ • i Barkley, E. 69 69 96 95 Barkley, W. . 77 75 51 51 Carp’ter, E. . 67 67 102 102 Carp’ter. W. . 68 64 86 86 Carpenter, S. . 58 57 112 110 Gillam ..... 82 80 57 56 Hanging Gr. . 35 34 55 55 Jordan 93 93 65 65 Kankakee ... 54 54 63 63 Keener 59 55 147 137 Marion, No. 1 148 145 115 119 Marion, No. 2 176 175 1 24 127 Marion, No. 3 104 103 82 81 Marion, No. 4 107 107 95 94 Milroy ..... 29 291 41 41 Newton 88 93| 51 51 Union, N. .. . 70 72| 80 80 Union, S. .. . 90 89! 61 61 Wheatfield .. 115 1141 123 122 Walker 86 86| 73 73 Totals . ... 1675 1 6611 1679 1669