Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — CORPORATION ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

CORPORATION ELECTION.

The following is the result of the corporation election last Monday: TRUSTEES. Ist VVqr<i—L. A. Cole 65 “ ' v G. W. Terhune.... .31 j 2d Ward—P. Dunlap 6.'! I “ C. Rhoades M i 3d Ward—G. A Moss. 57 W. W. Bickford 28 “ 0. London .. . , 1 4th Ward—W. W Wish .rd 56 “ J. M. Stackhouse... 34 J W. Warner 1 ! sth Ward—C. W. Ilenkle r 94 - ' MARSHAL, C. R- Barnes. . 61 E. T Harding..... ... 8 T. W. Lamson 5 0. S. Harvey. 1 TREASURER. A- McCoy 64 i. E. Ballard 26 E. Wright. 1 CLERK. E. P. Hammond 70 L. A. Cole 22 assessor. T. W. Lamson 36 D. T. Halstead. . ... . .29 For a corporation election there was an iinsual amount of zeal and enthusiasm manifested for each of the two tickets in the field. The one elected was stigmatized as the ‘‘Methodist Ticket.” by its enemies, while the defeated one was stiginrtized in turn as the “ Whisky Ticket.” The objection was raised that a Methodist was unfit to fill a corporation office in Rensselaer—ihe result may he seen in tlm figu es above. Mr A.ustjji elections *:d for his ticket with a zeal worthy of a {letter cut s •; he labored from the rising of. t Ue Run until the closing 4>f the r ■ >"’d his ticket '*» /J looted by t .v 1 - ; i i lot him chid * ” ‘ f '•( -'.'O' V • r. jfjfdiUiitCii Ota lil- Ail C i 4 ictihi. * * fit IbJl Methodist , and all on the “Whisky Ticket” Hfof< .r.»t friendly to whisky.