Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1920 — WERE BUSY PASSING THE BUCK [ARTICLE]

WERE BUSY PASSING THE BUCK

But Jasper County Republicans Send No Women Convention Delegates. While the Jasper .county Democrats have officially recognized the right of women to sit as delegates in their state convention and two womeif from this county will attend their convention as full-fledged delegates, the Republicans have turned the women down cold. Efforts were being made Saturday to get some of the Republican delegates to stay at home and let some Republican women go in their stead, but each delegate was busy, “passing the buck,” and it is said that they all finally agreed that as L. H. Hamilton was the most ardent woman suffrage advocate in the county he should pull off. “Lgoie,” however, who hoped to be called upon to make a speech in the convention, wouldn’t exchange places with Senators New or Watson, so there was nothing doing there, and the Jas* per county women were not represented at Indianapolis yesterday and today.