Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — JASPER COUNTY ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY ELECTION.

The following table gives the official vote for all the candidates voted for in Jasper county at the election last week. The Republicans are in Roman, and the Democrats in Italic.

1 P’ e fee ci « tr p p P Ll l -H o ! I £ SB TOWNSHIPS. « S- S.-I B E S I 1 £ ls -5 I 2. ! I ? I ! j ’ : j I i Hankins Grove. :i'.i 29 ltf 2ti| 22 31 17 2S| 22 17 Hark ley. 70 0.7 39 GO: 3" 1 08 30 071 37 3s Gillam. 00 57 15 56 : 10: 58; 13 57j 15 9 Marion. 225 190 62 182, GV 184 (51 173! 05 G 5 Jordan. 27 21 15 20‘ 17 ! 22 15 20 17 15 Iroquois. 59 5U 10, 5(5 lli 53 11 55: 11 11 Washington. 91 42 50 42: s()j 30 02 42 50 51 Beaver. 48 41 3(1 34; 42; 30 40 38 1 3(5 37 Jaskson. 30 28 37 22: 43. 27 38 2(5 37 38 Newton. 57 32 40 22 ! 55 27 31 22' 50 53 Bake. 15 15 00 4 11 5 10 15 00 n Kankakee. 9 11 5 0 9 9 7 9 7 ]0 Keener. 1 0 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 3 Walker. 14 3 13 3 13j 3 13 3: 13 13 Whcatfield. 8 00 8 Ot) g: 7 1 00 8 8 Total vote. 758 595 355 544 404:565 381 SGO 371 370

I The following are the majorities for the ] several Republican candidates: RECORDER. I C. W. Ilenkle, no opposition 758 CLERK. Jackson over Barkley 240 AUDITOR. ■ Halstead over Sharp 140 COMMISSIONERS. Ist Dial.—McCullough over Deitz 184 2d Dist.—Benjamin over Lamson 189 DISTRICT ATTORNEY. H M. Nourse, (Dem.) no opposition. 370 We stated in the last Gazette that the majorities would probably range from 100 to 180; but the official count agreeably disappointed us, by making the majorities range from 140 to 240, except for Mr. Ilenkle for Recorder, who had no opposition. Mr. Jackson ran ahead of the ticket, and Mr. Halstead behind it. The real Republican majority is that given for the two Commissioners—Benjamin, 189; McCullough, 184. When the desperate efforts made by the Democrats to defeat Mr. Halstead are taken into consideration, his majority of 140 is a source of great gratification to his friends. How many of the spurious Republican tickets were voted in the county we do not know, but we do know that one was voted in this town. Jordan township, always Democratic, gave a majority of five for Jackson and three for Halstead. Little Keener, out of her eight votes, ('ave O 5 O j two Republican majority. Last year she | was Democratic’by seven. Lake township last year gave twenty-five Democratic votes and nst one Republican. ! This years she gave Jackson, Ilenkle and Benjamin her total vote of fifteen, and only \ a majority of seven for Sharp and five for Deitz. .Washington, usually Democratic by forty, this year went the same way by eight. Iroquois nobly held her own, Republican by an average of forty-five. in Hanging Grove the Republicans gained slightly on last year. In Marion we gained over last year an average majority of twctnty. In Jackson the Democratic majority is reduced four or six. In Newton the Democratic majority is increased twenty-five over last year. In Barkley our majority is diminished sixteen to eighteen. Gillam nearly held her own, giving forty to forty-five Republican majority. Beaver and Walker held their own, and j the Republicans gained a little in Kankakee. Whcatfield is a new township, and this was Iter first election. The vote in favor of calling a Constitutional Convention was 268, to 614 against. The highest number of votes polled was for Clerk—9so. The vote was light, and would have been lighter still had it not been for the spurious tickets, which moved some Republicans to considerable activity.