Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — MALE CITIZENS ALONE [?] VOTE. [ARTICLE]

MALE CITIZENS ALONE [?] VOTE.

Judge Everett, of the Superior Court at) Lafayette, rendered a decision in the suit of Mrs. Helen Gougar, April 19, wherein' she sought to«recover damages from the election board for refusing her vote last November. Judge Everett beld.Jn brief, that under the National and State constitutions women were excluded from suffrage, that privilege beingogiven to male citizens only. The opinion is quite Jengthy, and it derives importance by reason of its being a test case. A new broom sweeps clears; so will an old one £ the hands of a uewJ. janitor.