Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — County and Township Tickets. [ARTICLE]

County and Township Tickets.

The county election commissioners met at the clerk’s office last evening, and made up the official ballots for the ensuing election. For the first time since the Australian voting system was adopted in this state, the district and county ballot consists of but two tickets, namely the Democratic and the Republican. Even the Prohis have made no county, judical, representative or’congressional nomination this year. The county ballot will thus be quite a contrast with the state ballot in size this election, the state ballot having five tickets. The Democrat, Republican, Prohibition, People’s and Socialist Labor tickets. The various township ballots were also made up. Only justices of the pbace and constables are to be elected in the townships this year, and the people have taken very little interest in making the nominations, or at least in filing them if they were made. Thus in Kankakee, Jordan, Milroy and Newton townships, there are no Republican township nominations, and the Democrats will have things all their own way, so far as justices and constables are concerned. lu Barkley, on the other hand, the Democrats have filed no township nominations. And in Keener, Gillam and Hanging Grove neither side has put up a township ticket. Thus in those townships the present justices and constables, if they have any, will hold over.