Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1902 — From Neighboring Counties. [ARTICLE]

From Neighboring Counties.

In oar nearest neighboring Newton, the entire Republican county ticket is elected, except sheriff. For that office, Wildasin, the present Democratic incumbent is re-elected by 27 majority over Amos Agate, the Republican candidate. The Re- ' publican majority on state ticket is 526 and on congressman, 472. For circuit court judge, as before stated, Darrooh carried the county by 76. An examination of * the official vote, by townships, shows that the principal defection on that office occurred in Jefferson township, where Kentland is. The people of that township, sore over the impending loss of the * county seat, started in determined to have a Kentland man for judge, and it made no difference to them Lwhether it was Cummings or his law partnerDarrooh. Hence their big vote for Darroch now is not against Hanley personally, but for - a Kentland man. This fact is shown by comparison with the i vote of the other townships. In Jefferson only 48 per cent, of the Republican vote went to Hanley. In Grant Tp., where Goodland is, . Hanley got 98 per cent, of the Republican vote. In Iroquois Tp. and Brook, 93 per cent., in Beaver - Tp. and Morocco, 90 per cent In Jackspn Tp. and Mt. Ayr, 91 per cent, and about the same in all the north townships. It is to be noted that in Iroquois Tp. and Brook, where the meanest newspaper attacks on Hanley were made, he get 93 pdf cent of the normal Republican vote, or as » much as the average of the county Republican ticket. , We u observe, further,; that the same Kentland crowd that knifed Hanley, is also responsible for the defeat of Amos Agate. The Brook Reporter is very indignant at Kentland Republicans on that account, as Agate is. an Iroquois township man. But the Reporter, as the bitterest and meanest anti“*Hanley paper in the county, really has itself to thank for Agate’s de* feat, for he was Hanley’s friend from the start, and every dirty attack on Hanley had an injurious effect on‘his friend Agate also. It wis to be regretted that it did, for no better man was on the ticket that Agate. In Pulaski County the Demo crats get about everything as s usual. The Republicans however, re-elected Chas. Brucker for clerk, and came near re-electing James Hayworth for Auditor. The biggest surprise over that way though is the election of John C. Nye, as judge of the Pulaski Stark circuit; by 42 majority. 1 In Carroll the Republicans gave the Dems, a surprise party, and carried the county for the first time since 1894. The county officers, however are about equally divided.