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y 8 . THE SUN,. SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1918. 3 SUFFRAGE VICTORY IN THE HOUSE PLEASES ALL BUT ANTIS Women's Party raccions, demo crats and Repub licans, Too, Claim Credit for It After Seventy Years of Agitation Br ELEANOR BOOTH SIMMONS. WASHINGTON, for forty yean the great objective of the suffragists; Washington, which through all the widespread struggles of the State campaigns re mained the central point of attack for the thousands who believed that this country owed Its women the Justice of Federal enfranchisement Washington is about to be deserted by the votes for women hosts. When, probably within a few days, the Senate shall confirm the action of the lower house on Janu ary 10 the guns which Susan B. An thony and Elisabeth Cady Stanton first trained upon the Capitol and the White House wUT be trundled away by the army which has so ably upheld the Sag of the pioneers, trundled away to open Are upon the thirty-six State Legislatures 'whose ratification is seeded before the woman suffrage amendment can become a part of the Constitution I say "when" and not "if about the Senate, because though sonic political nsctu-rcB mo crooning uiai mo suns lack four of the necessary sixty votes la that body, the leaders of the cause' are sure of victory. And they don't guess, those leaders; their estimates ire based on the most careful polls. "We shall go through with votes to are," Big Boss Mary Garrett Hay of th New York dty Woman Suffrage jxrty told me two days after the House vote, two days which she had spen.t in Uklng stock. ' "We shall watch for the favorable moment it may be, In ten days, it may bo three weeks and when the amend ment comes up It will pass the Senate. The women of the United States will vote for President In 49J0.." Mrs. Car rie Chapman Catt, head of the Na tional Woman Suffrage Association, de clared on the evening of the victory in the House. Anyway, all polls aside, Is it conceiv able that the Senate would put itself In the position of a small body of men killing a measure which has been car ried so far by such heroic labors, which lias won the approval of the House of Representatives, of the President of the United States, and back of which re the voting women of mere than a dozen States sharpening their spears tor the coming Senatorial Selections? No, the Susan B. Anthony amendment 1U win and the suffragists wilt depart om Washington. . Nevermore will Mrs. ' Maud Wood Park's petticoat lobby enliven the cor ridors of the CapltoU Nevermore will Mrs. Catt and Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Bass nd Mrs. Traut and Mrs. Punk and the rest of those keep and clever Women Politicians sit in solemn conclave round the big office tables of Mondell, lUker. Calder, Jones, and the rest of their friends In Congress. Saffrage Work That Wo. Nevermore will the purple, .white nd gold of the picket banners flaunt President Wilson's choicest sayings at the gate of his home. Nevermore will Washington's deoorous streets behold the sight of Mrs. John Winters Bran nan and other highly respected ladles of the .land riding Intrepidly side by 14e with ribald negro women In patrol wagons, their suffrage banners waving behind, to the nearest police station. Personally I believe Washington will miss the show. To be sure here and there a Congressman may have found the suit attentions a little too pressing, like the one Senator Calder quoted th) day Jie received the New York delegation In the Senate Office Build ,1ns, during the N. A. W. 6. A. con vention In December. "The Suffragists," said this weary Representative, "come to my house before I am out of my bath In the morning. They escort me to breakfast end see me safe to the Capitol. They wait outside the hall to buttonhole me in the lobby, and they haunt my office. They take me to dinner, they accom pany me to my home,- and they leave tne at bedtime remarking that they will be on hand again m the saorniajr Tou sea war he mtoUsnes' I gluts with a oapttal & All t& suae I i believe he .ana "waat9 aasthar Wash ington nerssa will talakssietlstes v wiw regret m,iw mm 'm.-ammr, f . AIM IF A.laMW V MU MafflMIV MMral : -..una u-i Kmni'l WV Wpi-WW rimeiuitHSM;t1Wim tJAMEJ R. 4 MANN WHO Lep-n A $CK BED TO .VOTE . Days of suffrage would bulk fairly large, even against our part in tho making of the present world conflict' They came trooping Into my .wind, those Great Days, as I sat In the gal lery of the House of Representatives waiting for Speaker' Clark' to open the proceedings on January 10. Again I marched, my boots red with the clay of the Maryland roads, into Washing ton with den. Rosalie Jones's Suffrage Pilgrims the next day but one before President Wilson's first inauguration, nnd saw tho curious crowds regard tho little band which did so much to break tho bonds of conservatism that had retarded the votes for women move ment., Again I walked In that momentous parade on March 3, 1913, was hustled by the rioters, saw white haired women like Mrs. Henry Villard spat upon and Insulted, heard the hoof beats of. the cavalry from Fort Myer galloping In to quell a disorder which had injured, not the suffragists ngalnst Whom it was directed but, the police who had, failed to stop It. Again I stood outside the Capitol the Christ mas after Inez Mllholland Boisscvnln's death, and saw little Alice Paul march ing at the head of that beautiful dem onstration In her memory planned by the National Woman's partj; in whose ranks she died. tgaln I tramped In the rain four times around' the White House the Sunday Wood row Wilson asiumed for the second time the office of Presi dent, tramped In the rain, my banner dripping glue nil over my new suit, along with 500 pickets. Levity Had Disappeared. Those early days, less dramatic but very pregnant, when Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton and Lucy Stone and the other pioneers camo and came again to the' capital with outwardly so 'little progress, I was not privileged to see, but I had heard the first de- bate on tho amendment In the House January 12, 1915, nnd it was very in- teresting to compare the attitude, of the members that time, with the attl- 1 tude of the members thla time. ! Women from New York and Callfor- nia, from Utah and Illinois; from . Maine and Texas, from every State In , tho Union the voters no less eager; and anxious than the unenfranchised were In that throng. Long before 11 o'clock, when pro ceedings began, the galleries wero crammed, and from each door a wide queue of waiters for possible vacancies stretched out into the corridor. And the subterfuges some of tho women tried to Induce the doorkeepers to let them squeeze in the, innocent eyes with which they insisted that they were, the favorite first cousin of Con gressman So-and-So, who would be extremely indignant when he came to hear of It that they weren't admitted! Well. well, at was a great occasion. "om my seat In the press gallery above the Speaker s aesK i aian i won der at any woman telling almost any whopper la the hope of getting in. The wheel horses of the cause were there earliest of all, Mary Garrett Hay. who has a' soft spot for reporters. was right in the front row, next the press gallery. Mrs. Norman dell. Whltehouse, head of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, was tiea In New York by the fact that the ship on which she is to go to Europe is George Creel's representative mignt sail at' any minute, but Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, acting chairman of the party and Congressional expert, sat beside Miss Hay, Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, petite, hiding her tremulousness under a truly won derful. composure, sat In the seat be hind, scarcely stirring inrougn mo lone day. Back of her was a lady from Texas, Elisabeth Herndon Potter,) and never did I see anything to equal that lady's repressed 'wrath when a Gentleman from Texas no, .not Blan ton; because he won the love of4the ruffs by saying that he carried the biggest Congressional district In the United States on a woman suffrage platform, but Slayden-jfUydeo's the one I mean, and whenJgB announced that the success of the Susan B. An thony amendment would usher In an era of Irresponsible, emotional govern ment that Texas lady's fsce was a study. "The Mexicans who elected him aren't emotional, I suppose. Oh,. no, they aren't irresponsible or emo tional!" she hissed. Florida iMtf Haass. Her fury, howssjar, ' wis almost matched by a lady Irota Florida, who sat two sections away, when Repre sentative Clark of JTorida (who felt so bad because h couldn't follow the rpMidekt, explaining at length tht wtsHs b wis "soma llbtning,;Caange artist" himself, he ooulda't flop over to th. 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Billy was In plenty of time to say the prayer or the day, which did not wholly please tho stiffs because he asked God to bless nearly everything In creation except tho cause that was up for a .vote thnt day, mentioning women only in the final supplication, "Bless our wives und children and tho fruitful fields! A Hed Letter Day Indeed. Well, Billy was on time, nnd at an early hour Mrs. Park was in her seat. .but where on earth, we asked one an- ,oiner, were Dr. suaw and Mrs. Catt? The speeches went on and on, and still the 'leaders didn't come. The middle of the afternoon a woman reporter who" had gone out tor a drink of water dashed back breathlessly." Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Catt are out there, on the wrong side, and the door keeper won't let them in," she told Miss Hay in a tense whisper. But Miss Hay Uvea with Mrs. Catt and Is, a strict disciplinarian. "I told them to be on time." she oh. served sternly. "And they stay talk ing till the middle of the afternoon and then get lost trying to tret in I I've done my Job. I can't help them." Many pickets from Occoquan Work house were to be seen when your eyes got accustomed to the close packed range of faces. Alice Taul wns there only part of the tlmo nnd then went out, herllttte white face calm and con trolled ns ever as she declined to voice a single hope for the amendment for which she had worked so hard. Not until It won could she believe that so much of the fight was over. Lucy Burns sat not far nway from Dr. Shaw and near her were Mrs. John Winters Brannon and Mrs. John Rogers, Jr. Mrs. Brannan, she 'who was one of the famous forty-one sen tenced for sixty days to Occoquan, said her maids were dreadfully wor ried when they saw her starting off again for Washington. They don't trust her now never know what is going to happen, Tae Lady 'From Xootaaa. Conspicuously among the soberly dressed suffs was the red hat of Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., wife of the Senator from New York and head of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, 'Fair and plump, she sat under her vivH hat the whole day and when the favorable result was announced she rose and made her way out silently. Near her through the day sat Mra Ford, of Boston, one of the anUs' best debaters and lobbyists, and Minnie Branson, sdMpr.of the Woman's Pro test leaned tn heavy elbow ,on the rail and looked frown! ngly down on the Congressmen who spoke .for suf frage and smiled approval when Meeker of Missouri, the bald headed, spectacled, w leader of tuns for the antls, declared that If we "had de pended on. the suffrage States Ger many would be over here right now." In one most lmbortant leaned did 'this day differ from that'otier day When n amendment first took the attention of the House for one whole y........t..-'.-..-..-...iiririBiiitrun-.rao . f- SUPFRAGE HEADQUARTERS BEFORE LEAVING 0 PICKET WHITE HOUSE bbbbm'LILbbbbbb bbbbT . vaaF BBBVf- S'SBBBBT aT a SBBBW' BB 'BBBrOIbBBBBbI' re BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBTBBBBBBflBtBBBBBBlBV' i W bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbW''k:C'-A.'4 PsVPIHBBVHiasBLBBBBW ALICE PAUL , LEADER Of tte NATIONAL WOIHANS PAHTY . sitting our 'only Congrasswonian, the Lady from Montana, the Hon. Jean nette Rankin. In she came, her brown hair prettily waved, a bouquet of orchids in her band, which' she placed on her desk. As ranking' Republican member of the Suffrage Committee ehe took her seat before one of the two tables in the centre of the G. O. P. elde of the House and Immediately every Repub lican who was on hand at that early hour and who wasn't 'an antl pressed around her ardently asking for what? One flower, Just one, from the nosegay she carriedT Alas!' no, nothing so romantic. They were asking for time to speak to the amendment! Jeannette had tne par celling out of the hour allotted to the Republican suff forces. Another Womaa, oa the Floor. The women looked down on the Lady from Montana with a feeling of possession. The 'frivolous hoped that she wouldn't grow to resemble the male Congressmen in what U their most striking characteristic from the gallery anyway a bald spot on the tOD.of the head. Funny how general It is, from Mr. Meeker and Nicholas, Longworth, with theirs stretcmng from eaj-1 er,1o Mr. Mondell, the Repub lican whip, with his cute' little' round bars spot Representatives Hefflln of Georgia and Walter Chandler of New York and . few others seem to .have escaped thus far. but they are the exceptions. There was one other lovely head of hair on the floor of the House that day, that of Miss Mac Off terdanger, secretary to Representative Raker of California, sponsor of the bill under considera tion. The hours crept on 11, 12, ,1, 2. Congressmen strolled out In pairs and groups for lunch,' but not a woman In tbo galleries stirred. What was food, compared with the importance " of nsvrui vi. v nn, , wuu.v v. ... JWfffcTB : -TTSOff PICKETS JAN. IO, women fidgeted plteously, but It wasn't lunch they were thinking of it was some absent Congressman supposed to be favorable whom they wanted to dash out and seek. Presently Representative Rowe of Brooklyn came up to cheer Mrs. Rosa- He Loew Whitney, the New York city Woman Suffrage party s Congressional chairman, whose. Congressman he is. Warmed and comforted by a nice meal in tho House restaurant, he was moved to ask the Women, What about eats? They admitted that they were a bit hungry, but begged him not to trouble, No trouble, the gallant Mr. Rowe as- sured his new constituent and her friends. He brought them a, sandwich' apicco, ana tnen securea some paper cups, and made trips to and from the water tank outside, each time with a dripping cup in either hand, till all the thirst In that region was quelled. I fancied that Mrs. Wadsworth and Miss Bronson looked across a trifle wistfully. Defenders of womanly womanhood though they are, they had no. squire to bring them chicken sand wiches and sparkling cold water. Mr, Elchelburg, their professional lobbyist, was creeping around somewhere be low, but he was bagging doubtful votes and did not pause to stfuire the ladles.' Fro as tick Beds .to Tote. Not all the women were In ''their seats. Down below In the corridors Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Grace Traut of Chicago wrung, their hands with fear that Republican Leader James R.iMann, their stanch friend, who has been so 111, would not he able to come and cast his vote. He had sent word that he wouldn't fall them, but time was passing, the end was nsaring and, the vote was so terribly 4bse. The lack of one might spell defeat. Well, the suspense was worth while when a few moments before C, when the debate closed, Mann, pale and gaunt, the shadow of the sturdy being m a IsbbbbbbbbOBbF.v-- .i s-y btbTbbT . JsbbbbWa IsBbBbbbbbbbbbbsbsBbbbbI bbbF iPsF 'TIbbbbbbbbIbbbbbbbKPSsbH iStitdmiJmBIBIvKSF&i bbbb! . bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbot bbbbbbbbbbbbbbkvslw ( bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI! l i Mbbb rs "representative JEANNETTE. RANKIN v who mado a strong speech for the amendment when fwas Introduced In 1915, crept in, having been driven in hasto propped up in an automobile from the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, whero he lias undergone several serious operations. Another c-.'en sicker man was on the floor, Barnhart of Indiana, who was literally carried from his bed in a local hospital to vote "Aye." on the amend ment. He, Joo, didn't appear till 6 o'clock, but Mrs. Horace Stlllwcll.'the Indiana member of the suffrage rotary lobby, didn't lose faith for a minute. "He'll come." she told the women around her. "He'll come." itr. Crosser was another friend of i.- . . BuuruKo Jiu cjuno irum a sick ucq; and then" there was , Representative Sims of Tennessee, nursing n broken shoulder, who wouldn't go homo till he had"Vctod "Aye." And the antls had their wounded hero also. Representa tive Tinkham of Massachusetts bore his arm in a sling, having been saved from a bad accident in a war motor in the .Alps to vote against woman suf frage. Most dramatlo of all, I think, was the arrival of Representative Johnson of tlje State of Washington, who raced as fast as tho mixed up trains would let him across tho continent from his home to back his friends. Young Lochlnvar, who came out of the West to elope with a lady, was not received more gladly than was this modern day knight who hastened east to res cue a cause. , The Orators. As the day dragged on one fixed one's eye on tho clock and murmured, "Eighty minutes more of oratory. Can I stand It?" "SJxty minutes more of oratory. Can I stand it:" f or, not to gloss the facts, some of it was pretty poor oratory. I've heard lots better at a suffrage convention. Dr. Shaw, Mrs. Catt, yes, and many of tho younger women can give thoso Solons cards and spades in clear, forceful, ex temporaneous speaking. But let us not rub it in The poor dears did their best, and some of them did very well Representative Chand ler of New York said some good things In support of suffrage, though I never could understand how It was tnat tne antls failed to hand him a laugh when he solemnly stated that he represented the district of "Columbia University and Grant's Tomb." Reiprcsentatlve Cantrlll of Kentucky mado a spirited defence of President Wilson when the Republican, naturally Irritated to see the President neatly and expeditiously deprive them of tho glory and political advantage of putting tho Susan B. Ahthonv Amendment through. Jeered and catcalled through bis reading of Mr. Wilson's words. Campbell of Kansas, looking like a portrait with his thin striking face and long noso, unroiaea nis lengtn irom beside the Lady from Montana and mode a very good speech. Keating of Colorado provided some really construe tlve argument when he replied effec tively to Representative, Meeker's as sertions that 'the anti-suffrage women did all the war work andthat the suffrage platform was "No votes, no babies." Representative Rankin was, I think, a disappointment to' the hosts of women who heard the first .Congress woman for the first time. Her speech was good enough when you read it, hut yon couldn't henr.lt. SBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbISbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBS VilBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl v 1 1 VbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbkbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbH REPRESENTATIVE OOHN E RAKER WHO LCD THB OBLIGATION THAT BROUGHT FORTH PRESIDENT WILSON NDORSBMEHT Of "Jeannetto's got enough voice why doesn't she let It out?" murmured Mrs. Laidlaw, who chaperoned Miss Rankin through her first suffrage work as a recruit helping In the New York light. The National Woman's party women were blunter. "What eo ought to send to Con gress," they told each other, "is a reg ular stump speaker like. Rose Wlnslow, who can swing her arms, and talk right off the bat without notes. Miss Rankin is too ladylike, too restrained." However, the Congressmen seem to like 'Jeannette. judging from the num ber who flocked to her defence when a gentleman from Jersey, I think It was Representative Parker, harked back to her peace vote on the war measure 'and demanded, "How would you like to see more women like Miss Rankin In the House?" "I'd.lllte many more women like MJss Rankin In the House!" retorted a gen tleman from Missouri, and the House concurred. Must have been rather em barrasslnsr for the Lsdv'frnm Mnntnnn. Rearing herself "discussed that way right out In public, but she bore up well. Used to it, perhaps. Five Hoars of Anxletr. Well, tho long five hours' wallow In oratory ended; it didn't seem as If it would, but It did. The voting began, and up in tho gallery you could almost hear the tense nerves of the women straining, straining. The culmination of a seventy years struggle would it win? Or would It lose, and the old weary fight have to begin again? It became evident that some of those Southern Democrats listened to reason from the President's lips no more than from any other source. They simply couldn t take it in when he told them 1 that the foundations' of the world were shifting, that new occasions brought ' new duties, that tho United States could no longer stand alone, that we must tako our place among the na tions as a leader of those nations. What was it to them that the Premier of Canada, lunching with the President the day before, had told; him thatj Canada would soon have all' Its women enfranchised? What was It to them that that very day the British House of Lords was engaged In putting down opposition to tho woman suffrage bill? They roso on trembling legs and walled that treachery was disrupting the rockrlbbed States rights doctrine of. the Democratic party. The voting began. The women held their lists of Congressmen in shaking fingers and tried to keep tab. Then came the long strain of the recapitula tion nnd tho fight over the foolish amendments offered. "They're filibustering," muttered Miss Hay. Her usually ruddy face was white as wax. She bungled over the figures she was trying to add up and dropped the pencil. "I can't make them come right," she said impatiently. The Vote Was Close. a Mrs. Laidlaw, sitting next her, tired to death with her. eight days steady lobbying, looked ns she waited as I have seen women look who sat eut slde the operating room waiting to hear tho fate of some one they loved. Her usually smooth forehead was lined and drawn, her eyes searched the door of .the House ceaselessly. Suddenly Senator Wadsworth appeared down there and shti turned with a start to Representative Francis of New York, who had come upstairs Into the press gallery and was leaning over to com fort the sisters on tho anxious seat. "Why doesn't James Wadsworth stay where he belongs?" ehe de manded. "Now, now," said Mr. Francis sooth ingly, "it's all right. He's doing no harm." "He's talking to Mr. Piatt. HeUwln him over," Mrs. Laidlaw whispered. Mr. Francis sat down and went over the names with her. "Nothing's going to slip," he promised; but the women, were on edge. "J can't find Parker," complained Mrs. Laidlaw. "Nor Sanford," moaned Rosalie Loew Whitney. "Shall I go down and look for them?" Representative Francis put her back In her seat "Parker and Sanford are here all' right," he told them. "And the amendment Is going to win,' Well, it did, but two-thirds of a vote Is an uncomfortably close majority to win by. And two-thirds of 410, the number voting, Is just 273 1-3, and the euffs got tlii The suffs said that the antls "went out into the byways and scraped up unexpected votes." Mrs. Catt called attention to the fact that the number voting, 410, was Just the same as the number voting on the prohibition amendment It was an unusually large 'turnout. In 1915 only 378 members responded to the roll call on suffrage. During all the fussing after the de bate closed this tlim! the argument as to whether Representative Domlnlck voted, whether Representative Russell really answered and should ho re ronled; tho discussion of Card's Exciting Scenes When the Final Debate Came Sponsors Sure Sen ate Will Favor Measure, So Turn to State Work amendment to refer-the resolution to the people of the States Instead 6 to the Legislatures, and Its rejection; , during tho long recapitulation of. the final vote demanded by Representative Saunders, over In the Speaker's gallery Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chap man Catt sat motionless side by side. Dr. Shaw, her little figure drooped down in the bench, plucked with her fingers at something In her lap; Irs. Cay. folded her arms and looked straight. "That was all that the many women whose eyes turned to them could see of their feelings; but Dr. Shaw confessed afterward that she felt faint. Victory Celebrated Soberly. "I felt sick." she said. "It didn't seem as if I could stand it. But it is all right ;the House has proved what tlepresentative Gallagher of Massa chusetts said to-day, that "democracy can't continue half free and half fe male.' Now I can(serye my country with my .whole heart. I have been working ' twenty-four hours a day; now I can work thirty-six hoursa day." And next morning I saw her, more than 0 years old. trudging over ths rcy streets to her desk In the, women's department of tho Council .of National When the vote wns announced that day by Speaker Clark and how the women had pinned their tottering hopes on him at the last, knowing that he had promised to vote for the amend ment If It "was necessary to save the any. uui wnen tne vote was an nounced I fancy tho galleries hardlv took It in for a minute. It wasn't till the roar of applause from the suffra gists on the floor of the House, the men who had voted it in, burst out that the women waked up. Then Mrs. Laidlaw, seizing her handkerchief. waved it at Mrs. Catt and Dr. Shaw. and the rejoicing broke loose. The victory was too hard wnn ami the count too close for exuberance. Quietly the women went awny and quietly the leaders gathered that night at Suffrage House on Rhode Island avenue to make their plans for the Senate fight, for using the Dolltlcal situation, the almost even balance of the parties, to the advantage of the measure In the upper house as they had In the lower. Yes, on the whole, the emotional sex wns less emotional than the men. Those aye men were awfully proud of tiiemscives. Never shall, I forget Al Smith of Tammany comlntr un to re ceive Miss Hay's and Mrs. Laidlaw and Mrs. Whitney's thanks, nnd feel ing so apologetic over Dan Rlordan's turning tho Amendment down. But ns Miss Hay says: "Rlordan will bo foraottcn. Mavba he will ie so far forgotten that he won't even run again next fall." Tho Jsew York women were much pleased that Edmund Piatt of Pough- Keepsie nnally voted yes. The Na tional Woman's Party will always put this down to the fact that Miss Elsie Hill, nn ardent plcket-lte and daugh ter or the former Congressman from Connecticut, Ebenezer Hill, went uj5 to Poughkeepsie two days before tho vote to stir up his constituents to'bombard him with letters and telegrams. But the women are not quarrelling as to' which wing of the suffrngo move ment Is to be thanked for this or thnt victory. As Elsie Hill's sister. Mrs. Helena Hill Weed, remarked on th night of January 10, as throngs of suffs stood waiting for the cars that Imply wouldn't como to tnko them to their well earned dinners: "There's glory enough for all." But there's one highly KatisfaOtory thing about this victory. Mrs. Cnrrie Chapman Cntt's National American Woman Suffrage Association thinks In its heart that it did it; Alice Paul's National Woman's Party thinks In Its heart that It did It; the Democrats think, or do not hesitate to say, that they did it; the Republicans think, or do not hesitate to say, that they did It. So everybody is quite happy and self satisfied, except, maybe, the National Association Opposed to Woman Suf frage. I didn't hear Mrs. James Wads worth, the president, say. But tn Ink ling of her feelings and her devotion may bo gathered from the fact that at the suffrage hearing before the Rules Committee recently she remarked that she was aware that she was en dangering her husband's career in pol itics by her opposition to woman suffrage. AJfiff