Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — SUFFRAGISTS COMING TO VISIT INDIANA [ARTICLE]

SUFFRAGISTS COMING TO VISIT INDIANA

The Militant Type Will Start Campaign For Constitutional Amendment For Equal Rights. ■

.Washington, D. C., April l 4 fragists of the militant type are preparing to stir the state of Indiana from center to circumference by- a statewide campaign in support of a national constitutional amendment giving women equal suffrage rights with men.

This announcement was made Manday at the headquarters of the Congressional Union for Equal Suffrage, where it was emphatically declared that the Indiana members of congress who are hostile to the national suffrage amendment will feel the warth of the fire that iq to be built under them before the summer is over.

It was announced that a state convention will be held at Indianapolis to touch off the Indiana suffrage campaign. Miss Lucy Burns, the acting head of the union, said that at the Indianapolis meeting a state chairman will be appointed, that she in turn will appoint a chairman for each congressional district, and the chairman for each district in turn will appoint women to serve as chairmen for the local suffrage organization “down to the smallest unit.”- Through this faxreaching organization it is expected to make things warm for the congressmen who oppose suffrage. At the same time every effort will be made to roll up a large state membership.