Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — Vote on Congressman. [ARTICLE]

Vote on Congressman.

As. nearlyas we can ascertain, the majorities/given by the several counties of the Eleventh Congressional district of Indiana, for Congressmaid at the election last week, is fas follows: PACJtaib. HEXRICKS, St. Joseph ~-.477 Mars! all .. ~477 Lake..... .667 Lapp He 144 ,i Porter/.. .396 1 Fulton 146 Jasjier/. 426 Pulaski 364 Newton 184 5tarke........ Cl Total...^STSfr— —- 1152 U 52 ' ■ Minority... 99d <A White county is =BS nearly a tie that it has probably not given ji majority of ten for either candidate. Although the foregoing is not the official voteof all the counties it approximates it so clpsely -Hrat iLAvrll not be changed twenty cither way. ~ Two years ago Mr, Packard's majority wag 1407. Tli? opposition has, without organized or united effort, .succeeded in cutting down his majority nearly one-third, and this, too, hi a Presidential campaign ■ when party lines are closely drawn, Theireause was just and righty amd though not fully triumphant there is reason for congratulation. Had this been the “off season 1 ’ in politics the probability is strong that we would have been successful.— Let the elements which opposed Mr. Packard remain firm in their tonvictions and two years hence, ts the dis4riet_remainsunchanged, success will surely crown their ef»* farts. The Republican party, or rather those who assuiped to control its course at the Plymouth cpnwention, may console themselvee that in a? large measure to their.,oandidate may be ascribed the glory of transfering his own (Laporte) county to the Democracy; and General Jasper Packard and General John Peter Clever Shanks may divide between themselves the honor of having, by their own selfishness arid imbecility, contributed more than any other two men in the State to the election of a Democratic Governor J