Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — CANNOT VOTE IN NOVEMBER [ARTICLE]

CANNOT VOTE IN NOVEMBER

’Enemy Aliens Must Be Naturalized To Vote at Elections. Indianapolis, Oct. 10.—In an opinion adopted todry by the state board of election commissioners it was declared that no person in Indiana of Gerpran, Austrian, or Hungarian birth, who has not completed his naturalization, will be qualified to vote at the coming election or at any other time while the United States is at war with the central powers. It is estimated that there are at least 30,000 men in the state who will thus be prevented from voting. A majority of these, it is said, have taken out their first papers and have exercised their right of franchise for years. This order in no way disturbs the constitutional right to vote of friendly aliens who have not completed naturalization but have acquired their first papers.