History
After Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment establishing
I&R in November 1912, the Ohio leaders turned their attention to the state
next door. Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow and other leaders spoke throughout the
state and helped organize a Citizens’ League to work for I&R. Yet a native
Indiana reformer gave the situation a gloomy assessment in 1914:
“Indiana, politically, is one of the most backward of our States. It must
continue to be, under the ironclad restrictions of the present constitution.