Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1917 — Cause of Wheatfield Election Mixup Is Explained. [ARTICLE]

Cause of Wheatfield Election Mixup Is Explained.

Valparaiso Vidette. Indianapolis, June 6.—The cause of the turmoil at Wheatfield, Ind., over the recent option election there, at which the women voters carried the election for the drys, it being discovered laterthatthe women-wore not entitled to vote, apparently was discovered yestrday at the office of Governor Goodrich. The governor, in response to a telegram from C. P. Clager, of Wheatfield, May 29, telegraphed Clager that the acts of the 1917 assembly were “not” in force. The copy of the telegram that reached Clager made the word “not” read “now,” according to Clager’s letter received yesterday by the governor. The duplicate of the telegram sent by the governor shown the word was written “not*. The acts were not promulgated by the governor until the next day and so the woman suffrage lew was not in effect and the women were not entitled to vote. The wets will carry the election, it is reported, under these circumstances.