Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1916 — Hoosier Troops Will Not Get to Vote On Border. [ARTICLE]

Hoosier Troops Will Not Get to Vote On Border.

The question of calling a special session of the legislature to pass a law arranging for the voting of the soldiers of the Indiana national guard now at Llano Grande, Tex., was disposed of by Governor Ralston in a letter addressed to Newton Gilbert at Fort Wayne Thursday. The governor amplifies his former statement that £uch an enactment would be unconstitutional and holds that an amendment to the state constitution is necessary before such a measure could be passed. The elective franchise in Indiana is conferred not by the statutory laws of the state, but by the constitution itself. No change in the election law could confer upon any person the right to vote, unless x such right is found in the constitution and unless exercised in the manner prescribed by the constitution.