Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1920 — G. O. P. WOMENS DIRECTOR QUITS [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. WOMENS DIRECTOR QUITS

WILL BECOME SECRETARY TO HEAD OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. Miss Ada Bush of Kentland, Ind., has dropped her wort as state director of women’s wort in toe Republican party of Indiana and, it was announced from Chicago Wednesday, will become secretary to Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, director of the Republican national women’s organization, with headquarters in Chicago. Miss Bush will take up her new wort at once. Miss Bush’s resignation as woman state director comes entirely on her own motion. She prefers to play the national political game rather than limit her efforts to state politics. Miss Bush is widely known in suffrage circles of the state and is a young woman of ability. She was one of Warren T. McCray’s active lieutenants in his primary campaign for Governor. Her friends say she is well qualified for the national work she is undertaking. State Chairman . Wasmuth, co-op-erating with Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, chairman of toe woman’s state executive committee, and other women leaders, - will take early action in naming a successor to Miss Bush for the state director job. There is yet plenty of time, though the Republicans are anxious to get their woman’s wort under way.

Schortemeier Pays Tribute. Fred Schortemeier, secretary of the Republican state committee, received a wire last evening from Miss Bush announcing her decision to take up the national work. She has had the position she takes under consideration for some time. “We regret to lose Miss Bush’s services in our state wort, yet we would be unwilling to stand in her way when there is a call for her to take up the broader national work. It- is a compliment to an Indiana woman that the. national committee desires her services.” Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch, woman state chairman for the Democrats, announced yesterday toe appointment of Mrs.. Olive Belden Lewis of Indianapolis as chairman of the woman’s state organization committee. Mrs. Lewis, acting under the direction of Mrs. McCulloch’s office, will direet. the organization work to be carried among toe Democratic women of the state. It is the plan to have a Democratic woman’s organization in each of the ninety-two counties. Miss Julia Landers, as announced previously, will be director of the woman’s state speakers’ bureau. Mts. McCulloch will soon announce the appointment of the woman’s publicity chairman. V Suffrage Law Misunderetood. Reports are reaching both Republican and Democratic state headquarters that thousands of Indiana women do not understand that a state statute gives them the privilege of voting in November for President of toe United States. Be it remembered, new voters, that Indiana women who confess to more than 21 years will vote for President even though the thirty-sixth state fails to come across for the Federal suffrage amendment. Under the state law Indiana women may vote for President onlv. Should the thirty-sixto state finally ratify the Federal amendment, they would vote for every office.

“Our first job is to spread the word among the many thousands of Indiana women who, confused by the failure of adoption of the Federal amendment, do not understand that an act of Indiana Legislature gives them the right to vote for President” said Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch, Democratic woman state chairman, “We want all the women to understand that they, as well as the men, must register either on Sept 4 or Oct 4 in order to vote at the November election.” 80,000 Slagle Women to Vote. Whether Indiana women will vote for Harding, Republican, or Cox, Democrat i® a debatable question which is beginning to give party leaders something to think fbout. There is vet no tangible information, so what talk there is on the subject is mere speculation. W. T. Durbin, speaking at a Republican organization meeting recently, declared that there are 50.000 unmarried women of v oti n Fi*«« *?“ he figa«d that they represent gie most uncertain quantity m politics. Others in the meeting expressed the belief that they would vote, in most instances, . as their fathers have voted. Reports from veteran suffrage states are to the effect that married women, almost as ofas that at their husband. July will soon flit out of the pic- • . , V ' flux Five babies were oom m live minutes to five mother* recently in lav