Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1920 — WOMEN DENIED VOTE AT INDIANA PRIMARY [ARTICLE]

WOMEN DENIED VOTE AT INDIANA PRIMARY

Indianapolis, April 6.—Women will not be permitted to vote in the primary elections in Indiana May 4, according to a decision reached iby the state board of election commissioners after a conference with Governor James P. Goodrich late this afternoon. “The state is lacking in the proper to give the women the right to vott for candidates for any offices on the primary ballots,” said members of the board after the meeting. Ele Stansbury, atorney general, who is an ex-officio member of the board, had held the view that women could vote in the primary.