Exposing Election Conspiracy in Indiana, in 1919

You won’t want to put down reading this true story from Terra Haute, IN.  Fascinating connections to future events such as the Voting Rights Act.  The authors end with the paragraph below:

“Because of the American voters’ growing intelligence and interest in government, elections are cleaner, political ‘bosses’ are not so much in evidence as they were even a few years ago,” Stimson wrote in 1919, shortly before women gained the right to vote. “It is generally conceded that the rapidly increasing woman’s vote will demand ‘good principles, good men, good government.’ Will 20th-century democracies endure? Their women will decide the question.”  

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