Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1902 — Comments on the County Vote. [ARTICLE]

Comments on the County Vote.

Elsewhere in this issue is pub lished the fall vote in Jasper county, in tabulated form, on the head of the state ticket, and for all offices on the looal ticket except county councilmen. The total vote oast for secretary of state was 3328, of which 1918 were Republicans, 1310 Demoorats, 88 Prohibitionists, 6 Peoples Party 4 Socialist and 2 Socialist Labor. The total vote in 1900 was 3660, or a falling off this year, of 432. The Republican vote fell off 165 votes, the Democratic 270 and the Prohibitionist 9. The total .vote this year however is 140 more than it was in the last off year election, in 1898. Following is the total vote of each township for the campaign of 1902 and 1900 for comparison. 1902 1900 Hanging Grove 100 121 Gillam 178 196 Walker 227 231 Barkley 304 355. Marion 851 957 Jordan 134 174 Newton 135 152 Keener 164 187 Kankakee 107 131 Wheatfield 224 238 Carpenter 515 587 Milroy 67 80 Union 312 352 Scratching and splitting of tickets prevailed all ever the county, one place about as bad as another, although in Newton township the epidemic approached nearer to cyclonic* violence than any other place. An amusing result of the scratching there was that John Martindale, the head mover of the township' scratching brigade, also got scratched himself in an eminent degree, as candidate for oounty councilman; and his opponent Uncle Bill Baker, of Rensselaer, actually beat him by 80 votes to John's 49, in his own township, which was within two votes as bed as Abe himself got hit out there.