Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — Sixty-Five Per Cent. For Relocation. [ARTICLE]

Sixty-Five Per Cent. For Relocation.

The Kentland Enterprise breaks out into a great string of double column headlines over Kentland’s alleged great victory at the recent county seat election. We can not see, however where the great victory comes in. Tn point of fact, if the two county seat elections in Newton county this year have demonstrated anything, they have demonstrated that the voters of the county, by an overwhelming majority, wish to have county seat more'centrally located And that if they could vote on the question, under a fair law, and first on the abstract question of whether or not they wanted a relocation, without choice of town being specified, that qyer 65 per cent, would vote for re-location. In point of fact, over 65 per cent, of the voters of the county did vote for re-location, at one or the other of the two elections. At the June election, five townshps gave larger votes for Morocco than they did in September for Brook, They were: Beaver 439 Jackson 217 McClellan 80 Lincoln 196 . Lake 122 Total 1108. At the September election the other five townships gave larger votes for Brook than they did for Morocco, in June. They were: Iroquois 426 \ Jefferson 17 Washington 148 Grant 197 Colfax 53 Total 841 The sum of all the ten townships’ votes for re-location is 1.919. and shows that that many voters in Newton county favor re-location. This is over 65 per cent, of the largest total vote ever cast in the county, namely 2,967, cast at the election for re-location in June. With such a majority favoring re-location, we can not see wherein Kentland can base any reasonable hope for a new court house and a permanent grasp on the county seat.