Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1915 — Suit Is Ordered on Primary Law. [ARTICLE]

Suit Is Ordered on Primary Law.

Indianapolis, Ind., May 12.—Suit to set aside of the 1915 primary election law which would operate to disqualify thousands of independent voters from participation in the nominations, will be brought under the direction of the Republican state committee. That action was decided on at a meeting of the committee at the Hotel Severin; yesterday, it being the purpose to attack only a part of one section of the act and not the entire statute The Fub-committee, appointed some time ago to look into the validity • of the section, made a report to the state committee, recommending that the suit be brought as-soon as possible, in order that it may go through the legal proceedings with as little delay as possible. The section to which the Republi cans are opposed is a part of Sec. 10, which specifies that a voter may be barred from participating in the primary unless at the preceding election he supported a majority of the candidates of the party with which he desires to affiliate at the primary. That would bar not only a large number of persons who supported The progressive party in the 1911 election from voting for republicans in the’ nominations, but also: would bar a large number of democrats, particularly in Indianapolis, from participating in —the—deinor-raiio primary. W It is known that a large number ot democrats did not vote their party ticket at the last election and they, as well as the progressives who desire to affiliate with the republicans, would be barred from participating in the primary.