Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1898 — The Stay at Home Vote. [ARTICLE]

The Stay at Home Vote.

The following table shows how the total vote fell off in this county this year, as compared with 1899. The first .oolumn of figures gives the total vote in each township for 1896, the second the total for 1898, and the third the falling off this year and the fourth the per cent, of the falling off. PER 1896.1898. loss, cent Hanging G.. 136 92 44 32 Gillam 204 144 60 29 Walker 225 178 47 21 Barkley 302 236 66 22 Marion 9J(Fn9OS 65 6£ Jordan 186 r&2 34 17 Newton 152 131 21 13 Keener 210 158 52 24 Kankakee... 128 108 20 15 Wheatfield ..189 175 14 7 Carpenter ... 568 502 66 11 £ Milroy 89 77 12 13 Union 310 273 43 13£