Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1908 — Some Caucuses in Newton County. [ARTICLE]

Some Caucuses in Newton County.

Wherever there were two candidates for the same office in any one township in Newton county, the republicans held caucuses last Saturday to try to settle the question of which candidate should get the Relegates from the township. At Roselawn it was a scrap between W. H. Overmeyer and Section Foreman Fuller for the Lincoln township delegation for sheriff, and Fuller Is said to have won the delegatlos after a lively scraj that assumed rather ugly proportions at times and it is stated that there were 50 more votes cast than thete were republican voters in the township Silas Swain is said to have been on the Fuller side of the fence and to have promised the support of the delegation in the event Fuller can not be nominated. Uncle Sile will be right there when the gong sounds, and it would not surprise us to see him carry away the plum. f At Mt Ayr there was also a lively scrap between W. W. Miller and Ed Harris for the delegation from Jackson township for county auditor. Harris won by almost two to one, so it is understood,