Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 30 March 1933 — JUNE 6 DATE OF SPECIAL ELECTION [ARTICLE]

JUNE 6 DATE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

GOVERNOR McNUTT SETS DATE FOR ELECTION OF REPEAL DELEGATES. Indiana is scheduled to vote Tuesday, June 6, on the proposal to repeal the eighteenth amendment to the federal constitution. Governor Paul V. McNutt has fixed that date as tentative for the special election to select wet or dry delegates to the state constitutional convention. If June 6 is finally fixed as the election date the Indiana constitutional convention will be held Monday, June 26, at 2 p. m. in the chamber of the Indiana house of representatives. The official proclamation of the governor can not be issued before the last of next week if the election is to be held June 6 as the law provides that the election must be held within sixty days after the issuance of the proclamation. Each county of the state will elect a delegate for each 10,000 population or major fraction of that number. But no county will have less than one delegate, regardless of population. This arrangement calls for the election of 329 delegates. Under the operation of the law it will be virtually impossible for a county to elect a split delegation of wets and drys. One or the other side will win the entire delegate strength of the county because of a provision permitting “straight” voting on the question of approving the proposed twenty-first amendment (repealing the eighteenth amendment) or voting to reject the amendment. Voters who do not desire to vote candidates for delegates, but in no event will it be possible for a voter to vote for some wet and some dry candidates. Those who have studied the new law providing for the convention believe the effect will be a referendum. No candidate for delegate may have a petition filed with the clerk of the circuit court unless he has previously filed a declaration declaring either wet or dry. County Clerk Sweigart, who by virtue of his office will be a member of the election board which will conduct the special election, stated Tuesday that he had no information as yet as to the exact provisions of the law. No conference of the board of election commissioners had as yet been held and none would be held until a copy of the new election law was available. No funds are available to pay the expense of a special election and before one can be held a special meeting of the county council will have to be called to appropriate funds.