Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ol the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towne — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. HOSTILE TO WOMEN’S ACTIVITIES Indianapolis, Aug. 3. —Revelations attendant on the resignation of Miss Adah Bush as chairman of the Republican state womed’s committee add another chapter to the studied hostility of the old guard leaders to the participation of women in Indiana political affairs. Miss Bush’s retirement from the state arena was made voluntarily, according to announcements, in order that she might devote time to the national organization. Coincident with this, however, came uncontradicted reports that Miss Bush’s activity in a non-parti-san character with the National Women’s party at the San Francisco convention was not to the liking oi the old guard circle. In fact, it is charged In many places, that she met such opposition on the part of the party chieftians and that her position became so uncomfortable that she was compelled to resign. dne thing that Is paid to have caused friction between the men’s and women’s departments In the Republican state headquarters was the fact that Instead of the women being taken into the organization on a 50-50 basis, they were obliged to defer at every turn to the men. All orders were Issued by the wellknown Republican machine manipulators and all the activities of the women’s department were forced to go through censored channels before being placed into commission, It Is said. The old guard tactics In this Incident were consistent with their practices in the state convention when they denied women a place on the national delegation. They also followed their llly-dlsgulsed hdstlllty when they had the Republican majority In the special legislature kill a bill designed to give women a right to hold office and to sit on Juries in Indiana.