Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — Comments on the Official Vote. [ARTICLE]

Comments on the Official Vote.

h • ’ ■ .'/ , - There is no grounds for discouragement for Republicans in these figures. The Republican majority, although considerably T ss than the pbenominal one in 1388, is nearly 100 greater thau iu 1890, and 62 greater than in ISB£. Tue wholesale scratching of the 1 vai ticket .is" nothing new for Jasper county Republicans In fact, it is seldom that one or more Democrats do not lr Id offices in the county from that cause. The total vote of the county is 27 i 9, an increase of only 24 over the total vote of IBBBr~I his nr-

cre ise is seveial less than the increase of -olid Democratic votes coming from the location of St. Jo.iepb’s college, at RensselaerT in looking for the source of the People’s P.rty vote, we find by comparison with the vote of 1888, that, in Giilam tp., about 28 came fro n the Republicans aud 8 from the D -n icrata. in Barkley tp., the proportion was about 21 Republicans to 7 D jmocrats.

Iu Jordan the populist vote was made up of 27 Republicans, 13 D mocrats aud 14 Prohibitionists. Ju W heatfield tp, it would seem that the Demi »crats sustai tied about a 1 of the loss from the new party movement. Iu Carpenter Ike loss is aoout 12 Republicans, 26 Democrats, an i In Milroy the ioss is about 24 Democrats and 15 Repnblii.-ang. in Union the loss is alwiut a stand-off, as near as it can be figured.

In Marion the Republicans seem to have sustained all the lobs. In Walker also the loss would seem to have been wholly from the Republicans. Keener lost 29 Republican and one Prohibition votes. Of these 8 went to the Populists, 7 to the Democrats and the rest took to the woods. To sum the matfer up, the increased People’s Party vote iu this county came about 230 from the Republicans, 100 from the Democrajfl, and 12 from the Prohibitionists.