Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — ADAH BUSH ALTERNATE DELEGATE FROM THIS DISTRICT [ARTICLE]

ADAH BUSH ALTERNATE DELEGATE FROM THIS DISTRICT

The tenth district Republican* honored themselves in sending to the national Republican convention Miss Adah Bush of Kentland. Two women were elected by the Republican state convention as alternate delegates at large to the Republican convention. . . At the meeting for organization of the tenth district Republicans held in this city last Tuesday a committee appeared and asked that Miss Bush be sent as a delegate to the Republican national convention. There were no women delegates to the Republican state convention, none asked to go from this county and possibly all realized that women are not eligable to sit in convention except where nominations for president and vice-president are being made. — ——■ ’ The editor of the Republican was! elected a delegate to the convention j and made his fight for same as a Wood supporter and in the convention he did all in his power to instruct the big four delegates for the, General. In the tenth district he | with other Wood supporters favored ■ instructions for Johnson for the Senator had a majority of the Republican primary vote in the district. Through the support of friends from Jasper county Louis H. Hamilton was given the honor of being elected by the tenth congressional district its assistant secretary of the state convention.