Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-07
| AND 2 ONLY
SEEM LIKELY
OF ADOPTION
Based on Complete
County and Few
State Returns.
TAX CHANGES HIT
Opposition More Gen
eral Outside Than
in City.

On the basis of complete official
returns, unoficialIy tabulated, five
of the proposed constitutional amend
ments carried in Marion County;
seven were defeated, and the result
Of one is in doubt.
Returns from the State are incom-
plete, but generally they indicate
more opposition to the amendments
than the Marion County returns. On
the basis of small State returns there
is a strong probability that all the
measures except No. l and possibly
No. have been defeated.
The amendments which received a sur
fic!ent majority are those applying to
citizenship, registration, veto of items in
appropriation bills, lawyers Qualifica-
tions, and the one prohibiting the
lengthening of terms and increasing
salaries Of public officials while in Of
flee.
The amendments which failed to carry
the county are the three which tx the
terms of public officials at four years
the amendment which would make the
office Of State superintendent of public
instruction appOintiTe instead Of
elective. the two taxation amendments,
and the amendment which would admit
negroes to the militia.
The result Is doubtful in regard to the
amendment which would base legislative
apportioEment on the vote for Secretary
Of State.
According 10 the unofficial tabulation.
Amendment No. l led the list with IL .170
favorable votes and 22SS unfavorable
votes This indicates that a total Of 13,-
45S votes We're cast in the county. This
would require an amendment to have
6,730 10 carry the county.
port from Richmond indicated that
only the first two amendments were
adopted in Wayne County. In Cass
County all the amendments with the ex
ceptiOn OF the first apparently were lost
The result in Grant County appeared to
be close. with strong possibility that
most Of the amendments would be lost.
A dispatch from Vanderburg County in
dicated that all the amendments prOba
bly, had failed, the first apparently for
the lack of a majority of all the votes
cast. Fit Wayne reports show all Of the
amendments defeated in Allen County.
TAX MEASURE GOES DOWN
BY TO 1 VOTE.
Indications we're that the amendment
which would give the Legislature un-
limited power in matters of taxation had
been defeated in Marion County by a vote
Of more than three TO one and that the in
come tax amendment had been defeated
by nearly as large 4 proportion. The
State superintendent amendment was lost
by vote Of between 1.5O0 and 1000 and
the negro amendment by a similar mum
her of votes
The vote on the first amendment indi-
Gated that the woman vote had been
heavy. for the women were particularly
interested in its passage. The large vote
apparently was particularly due to the
activities Of the American Legion and the
League OF Women Voters in its behalf
VOTE IN COUNTY
EXTREMELY LIGHT.
The vote in Marion County was ex-
tremely light. Indications were that the
official totals would run less than $4,000
This is about 10 per cent vote on the
basis Of the last Presidential election in
which a total Of 1851 votes were cast
in the county.
The taxation amendment against which
most OF the efforts OF persons interested
in the amendments were directed,
carried only six. thus showing the results
OF the organized campaign against 1t.
One of the features OF the election was
the comparatively heavy negro vote. The
negro militia amendment apparently had
the effect its authors desired in so far
as It brought out the negro vote, but
this IS about as far as it went. The
negroes to large extent simply went
TO the polls and voted for this amend
ment and ignored the remainder. in the
white precincts there we're very few
votes for the amendment
An instance of the manner in which
the negroes voted Is shown in the First
precinct OF the Fifth ward, a cOlored
stronghold. In this precinct there were
l23 votes for the negro amendment and
SIX against it. The highest vote on any
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