Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1920 — GOVERNOR PICKS ELECTION BOARD [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR PICKS ELECTION BOARD

NAMES W. H. THOMPSON. REPUBLICAN AND W. W. SPENCER, DEMOCRAT , Indiana State Capitol, April 6.— Governor Goodrich has appointed William H. Thompson, Republican, and W. W. Spencer, Democrat, as members of the 1920 state board of election commissioners. The appointments were made on the ommendation of the Republican andDemocratic state central committees. The election law provides that the Governor shall serve as the third member of the board. Although the attorney general is not a member of the commission, it is customary to have him participate in the work of the commission as the legal advisor of the Governor. The Governor said that he ■would Call a meeting of the commission this week for the purpose of considering officially the question of whether women may vote at the presidential preference primary May 4. Lari week the Governor was requested to appoint the State Commission by Frederick E. Shortemeier, secretary of the Republican state committee. Opposing Opinion.. At the time Mr. Shortameier said that there were two ppporing legal opinions on the question of whether the women may express their choice in the Indiana presidential primary and that if they have the right to vote in May he desired an official opinion without delay. Mr. Spencer, in an opinion given to the Indiana Franchise League, held that women do not have the right to vote at the primary. Mr. Thompson and Charles O. Roemeier, who were requested to give an opinion -to the Republican state committee, held that the law provides that women may vote for presidential electors only and that this would not entitle them to vote at the priOn the other hand, Ele Stansbury attorney general, gave as his private opinion that- the law is broad enough to permit women to express their choice for presidentiaL candidates at the primary. Denial that they intend to take advantage of the wage increase to the "miners to “profiteer” in coal prices was made tonight by tne bituminous coal operators. Governor Edwards, of New Jersey, would run for President on a platform demanding reclamation of all arid regions.—Arkansas Gazette. Chicago’s new daily paper » to I publish no news of crime or scandal. It won’t have much local news.— 1 Newark (Ohio) Advocate. And now Mr. Hearst may run for President. We hope he is in good training, for he will have to run a long distance. - “ Portland Oregonian. . . A great embarrassment to private ownership is that when the railroads were returned the four Brotherhoods were also returned. — Fnancial America.