Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — State Senator Proposes Fine Of $100 for Failure to Vote. [ARTICLE]

State Senator Proposes Fine Of $100 for Failure to Vote.

Senator Durre, of Evansville, would like to put a stop to the laxity of voters. He believes it tbe duty of every American citizen to go to tbe polls and he would force him to do it under penalty of a fine of SIOO. It is a fact that many people have remained away from tbe polls at recent elections and that in many cases men have refused to vote unless they were brougbi to the polls in a carriage or an automobile and then taken back to their homes. Tbe Durre measure would correct these evils. I.