Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — THAT WHEATFIELD TELEGRAM [ARTICLE]

THAT WHEATFIELD TELEGRAM

Governor Wrote “Not,” but the Telegram Read “Now.” The cause of the turmoil at Wheatfield over the recent local option election therd, at which women voters carried the election for the “drys,’’ it being discovered later that the women were not entitled to vote, apparently was discovered today at the offices of Governor Goodrich. The governor, in response to a telegram from C. P. Clager at Wheatfield May 29, telegraphed Clager that the acts of the 1917 cgSneral assembly were “not” in force. The copy of the telegram that reached Clager made the word “not” read “now,” according to Clager’s letter received today by the governor. The duplicate of the telegram sent by the governor shows the word was written “not.” The acts were not promulgated by the governor until the next day and so the woman suffrage law was not in effect and the women were not entitled to vote. The “wets’’ will carry the election, it is reported, under these conditions. —Wednesday’s Indianapolis News. ■ ’