Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1898 — OFF YEAR WAY OFF! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OFF YEAR WAY OFF!

County Ticket AH Cut To Pieces! But We’ve Got About all of the Pieces. • But Pierson is Beaten By Two Votes. All The Other County Candidates Safe* ly Elected. Although Jasper county has given a good Republican majority on the state and congressional ticket for an off year, yet an epidemic of scratching has prevailed on the oounty ticket, with the result that one good man, Estil E. Pierson, candidate for clerk, is probably defeated by a very small majority; all the other Republican county candidates are elected by varying majorities. Clerk, J. T. Major, Dein 2. Auditor, W. C. Babcock, Rep 203. Treasurer, R. A. Parkison, Rep 101. Sheriff, N. J. Reed, Rep 235. Commissioner, Ist District, A. Halleck, Rep 44. Comipissioner 2nd District, S, Dowell, Rep. 25. A. F. Knott’s majority for joint representative, in this county is 04. In Lake Co. it is said to be 400. The full official vote is given elsewhere, in this issue, and never before in the history of Jasper county was the tabulated form of the official vote published the next morning after the official count was made, or even the same week.