Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — EARLY BALLOT CLOSING ARRANGED IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

EARLY BALLOT CLOSING ARRANGED IN INDIANA

Politcal and election organization leaders met at the statehouse in Indianapolis Monday afternoon and agreed on the substitution of an earlier date for the ones provided by law for the closing of the state and county party tickets. The agreement to take the place of the provisions of the law was arrived at to facilitate the votng of absent soldiers. The law provides that state tickets shall be closed twenty days prior to the election and that county tickets shall be closed fifteen days prior to the election. Because this is not sufficient time in which to have ballots printed and distributed to solders and returned to the proper authorities, it was agreed to waive the law’s time provision and close the tickets sooner. -The state tickets will be closed four days sooner and the county tickets nine days sooner. This will close both tickets on the same day, Oct. 12. The meeting was called by the state board of election commissioners and attended by Fred J. Ewing, chairman of the commission on registration and voting of absent soldiers; L. W. Henley, secretary of the Republican state committee; Frederick Van Nuys, chairman of the Democratic state'committee; J. Raymond Schmidt, chairman of the state Prohibition committee; William H. Henry, secretary of the state Socialist committee, and others.