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sigh of apprehension went through the
galleries. The vote went on. The full
vote went, as it had before, to the
antis. W'ithout Turner it stood 48 to
47. His vote "no" would make a tie,
and lose the ratification. His vote
"aye" would make Tennessee the per?
fect thirty-six.
Turner arose. There was a breath?
less silence through the house.
"Mr. Speaker, before the vote is an?
nounced, I desire to be recorded as
rntine- aye," Turner said, in a con?
versational tone.
? sigh of relief went through the
galleries, to be followed, as soon as
ti.e people realized what Turner's "aye"
meant, by a burst of applause that
shook the rafters and made the tri?
angles on the chandeliers dance.
There was some delay then. The
same urbane gentleman who on Tues?
day had refused recognition to suf?
fragists to move the previous question
and then had recognized Speaker
Walker when he moved to adjourn was
in the chair. As he had done Tuesday,
h. prefaced his remarks by a statement
that he was absolutely fair to every
body. Then he recognized Walker, let
him change his vote and move recon?
sideration. Then he announced the
vote as 50 to -i(!. A motion to adjourn
until 10:30 o'clock Thursday was im?
mediately introduced and carried by a
\ iva voce vote.
I; has taken the bitterest fight in
' ? history of the state to obtain to?
day's result. Ratification has come in
spite of the most powerful influences
ever set in motion to b'ock a measure
:: this state. It has :ome after mis?
takes of the stiff rag..' floor leadership
which imperiled the success of the
cause. These mistakes were so grave
that friends had several times given
i:p. The antis in the House were com?
pactly organized and had all advantage
of position. They had the Speaker, the
clerk, the sergeant at arms, the llemo
cratic floor leader. They had the active ;
and influential men working with them.
They had as material to work on the
same type of men who had before
knuckled under time and again to what
tie interests wanted.
T. K. Riddick, a Memphis constitu?
tional lawyer, was lirst floor leader for
ratification. He was elected at the spe
ch I ? lections in August. He has
had little experience with parlia?
mentary law and no experience
with the tricks of trade of the
secret lobbyist. Friday morning.
wh^n the Senate was ratifying suf?
frage. Riddick was in the Senate listen?
ing to the debate. He had in his pocket
a similar House resolution. While he
was gone Speaker Walker and tho other
House antis rushed through a motion
to adjourn until Monday. Suffrage
leaders blamed Riddick bitterly for al
lowing this to be put over, as they had
a lar^e House majority that dey.
Then Joe Hanover, another Memphis
.:. assumed the stiff race reins. He
is a better parliamentarian, a man of
intense activity, and did much bet! r.
But still the suffragists were no; a
compact, agreed mas.-, as were the antis. |
And they could not control their
speakers.
Riddick led off Tuesday, and his
opening remarks referred to the South
r.s "the toil end of creation." He next
r< of distinguished men
< orking for suffrage, and omitted the
mmc of Governor Roberts, without
w ose unceasing efforts on wabbly leg
: ators rejed on would have been cer?
tain. I! then charged that the votes,
of some legislators had been controlled
by inter? sts, and announced that sixty- \
suffrage pledges were held which
" aid be published. Riddick's speech
a .. IvantagO of by Speaker
V. ilker, who aroused his sympathizers
in the :.", 1? ry to shrieking enthusiasm.
Speaker resented the charge of
unseen interests, and appealed to
legislators to show how untrue it
was nnd how t ey resented the char/e
by voting against ratification.
Walker's speech played to every rec
i. | . ?".!, ce, and seemed very ef
? we. 5fet many of the ratification
... rs wanted to bar? the vote right!
appeal. Hut Mr. Hanover |
wouldn't have it. He delivered an ef- '
: tive sp '..:.. and relaxed the tension '
: . ' Walkor h: ! put on the suffrage
iiii.ks. He failed, however, to move
ti ?? previous question at the close of
. pe ch. One instant, and the j
chance was gone. He tried to retrieve
it, but i.'i vain. Speaker Walker moved,
djourn, and the tired members ad
jouined.
Suffrage women had sont up hun- ;
dteda ol sandwiches to be sent t?> the
hungary solons. The antis refused to
lei them come to tne members. They
intended to talk the hungry men into
adj lurnmi ; '. They hoped that North
Carolina's acti :i would iget to the
li?.use before it adjourned, but it did
r."'.. And so by another blunder an
adjournment was put over.
It was a blue crowd last night, the
suffrage crowd. They were smiling, al?
though their hearts were about to
br? !.. Some women brought to the
Capitol this morning red roses
wreathed with funeral crepe, so low
? ere their spirits. The men retained
th ir optimism on the surface, but be?
neath they wen- frightened, and ex
pi cl ed defeat.
It is in the hands of God; we can
do no more," exclaimed Miss Charl
Williams, chairman of the steering
. ; ttec of Democratic women which
has b- en working day and night for
ten days for ratification. "The situa?
tion this morning could not have been
any "worse," was the way Miss Sue
Walt?-, Tennessee chairman of the
ntlouni Woman's Party, felt about it.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, although
she had nothing to say, was prepared
for de . at.
Tii. morning Representative L. D.
Mill r, of Hamilton County, challenged
un? .?':??? iker W alker's iemarka of
Tuesday and reiterated charges of a
lobby of unseen Interests.
"Th? interests have for fifty years'
been a*v co do whatever they wanted
t?> with the Tenues.,, e Legislature,"
Miller began. "In the present session
they have put over whatever tiiev
wanted to. And 1 see the same men iii
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Mother of Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
26,883,566 Women in
V, S. Entitled to Vote
Estimates hosed iipov the .1910
census and upon incomplete re?
turns of the 1920 census show
there are 26,883,566 women of
voting age in the United States.
The estimate by states follotvs:
Females Males
Alabama. 552?154 564,11]
Arizona. 48,280 81,051
Arkansas. 387,193 431,82 1
California. 738,524 1,012,! ',
Colorado. 234,767 300,6 18
Connecticut. 368,644 381,692
Delaware. 64,286 67,887
Florida. 196,553 235,195
Georgia. 674,463 682,616
Idaho. 76,799 L22 8 ??
Illinois. 1,724,240 1.917,182
Indiana. 847,723 901,434
b.wa. nil).COS 729,671
Kansas. 482,827 558 529
Kentucky. 037,731 6 '?:!. 15 I
Louisiana. 434,889 455,9 Li'
Maine. 248,309 258,7 ?1
.Maryland. 405,200
Massachusetts. . 1,181,933 1,123,662
Michigan. 864,636 957,876
Minnesota. 563,652 7<' ,669
Mississippi. 454,235 ?! ' ,95 :
Missouri. 985,167 1,070,062
Montana. 89,915 170,01 i
Nebraska. 327,841 38S.626
Nevada. 19,954 41,02 .
New Hampshire. ' 148.903 149,668
i ?fw Jersoy|"i ,. 810,324 851,702
New Mexico'. .... 80,467 i 13,637
New York. 3,033,273 3,119,773
North Carolina.. 571,422 556,1! ;
North Dakota.. . . 134,046 190,890
Ohio. 1,538,175 1,632,365
Oklahoma. 391,813 491,266
Oregon. 185,155 282,188
Pennsylvania.... 2,325,408 2,539.02.1
Rhode Island. . .. 183,030 179,834
South Carolina.. 378,353 368,046
South Dakota.. . . 147,605 195,189
Tennessee. 596,648 607, 16
Texas. 972.63!? 1,10 1,357
Utah. 94,301 114,115
Vermont. 117,571 124,506
Virginia. 570,320 575 532
Washington. ... 305,499 485,294
West Virginia.. . 313,465 371,249
Wisconsin. 672,272 751,743
Wyoming. 31,721 69,501
Totals.26,883,506 29,577,690
(No allowaiieu Is a.ad? in Lhia table
for uli? ns )
the lobbies of the hotels, the lobbies
of the Capitol and the floor of the
House who served these special ?t??
tere ts then. I appeal to you not to
let yourselves be bought."
Immediately Walker jumped up and
in a short impassioned appeal mov d
"that this resolution go where it has
all the time belonged ?to the table."
A roll call came. On this motion
the fate of suffrage really depended.
If ?t carried ratification was lost, as
it takes a two-thirds vote to bring- a
measure from the table. The galleries
realized it and the members realized
it. As name after name was called
and many of the men wiio bad been,
pledged to suffrage voted to table
muffled sobs from women in the gal?
leries were heard.
It was seen that the vote would be
close. Some of the men who had been
hardest sought by the anti-lobbj and
who had been given up as gone by the
suffragists stuck.
After Wie roll call came a moment's
silence. Several tabulations showed
the vote a tie 4H to -1*. The clerk
at first so announced, but then wabbled.
The clerk was an ami and asserted
that he was not certain of his result.
If 48 to 48 the motion to table was
lost. Floor Leader Hanover immedi?
ately moved the previous question.
: But Walker would not have it. He
. told the House that the clerk didn't
know whether he had recorded the
vote correctly or not nnd ordered that
\ he call the roll again. He weakly an
i pounced that. "1 trust every member
? will vote as he did before." Again the
fate of suffrage was in the balance. A
? change by a single man would defeat
it. Hut as name after name was
I called out and the supposed wabblers
stuck -firmly to their "no" the poll
: continued and it was again 48 to 48.
Tu?' motion to table was lost and the
previous question was ordered.
Representative Boyd afterward
; told why lie had voted to table. "If
it was close, as 1 knew it would be, I
was going to change my vote from
'aye' to 'no,' and make it a tie," he
announced. Boyd told the clerk not
to announce the result i!" unfavorable
until he bad a chauce to change, but
i; we.s lost without it being neces?
sary for il i in to change. When the
ratification vote came lie changed in?
stantly, and, together with Turner, put
it over.
Immediately after adjournment suf
: lead? ?'s rot busy an?! began to
work on the wabblers who liad Hopped,
in an effort to get them to vote against
;. reconsideration. They already claim
to have six of these men with them
or. the next and final battle. Even if
these six do not come over they will
have two more, as two of the suffra?
gists were absent to-day. Cue of these
was Representative C. V?,'. Brooks, of
Atv.-ood, who was calle?! Tuesday night
to t!.'- bedside of his sick Vife. He
went by special train and intended to
stay bul two hours at Atwood. Hinv
? ?,'? e, he had not. returned this morn?
ing. He is mi his way back n?.*v and
will in- here Thursday and Friday. Rep?
resentative Howen. another suffrage
absentee; airo will be here Thursday.
The n'ltis are trying.to m alie the
ft'ragists b( ?eve that they will accept
their defeat as final and are going
around saying, "Well, you lic;:ed us,"
to suffrage men, they are in reality
:.'-.. mptiny to m.ik? ratificatio'nists too
lent of reversal, end catch thi.-m
sleeping. Some suffrage members al?
ready have asked t') go home. Their
requests will be fought -.gainst to the
bitter end by the leaders, who fear the
it i,
Speaker Walker, who even went so
i;.v as to deplore that President Wilson
had asked him to aid ratification and
to reply referring to placing "political
expediency before honest convictions,'
would say nothing for publication. He
remarked, "I had my say on the flooi
of the House."
.loe Hanover, floor leader for ratifica?
tion, was jubilant. "We btiat secret
fore? ? from Maine to California, which
had come together to beat ratification,'1
he announced, "and we are -watching
their every move to keep tnem from
snatching victory away from us."
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, who
fought for suffrage in Delaware when
members of that Legislature shoved
their lists in his face for coming thcre;
wears the smile that won't come off,
11 is battle of twenty-five y? ars has
been won,
Governor Roberts, who made the
tight of his life for ratification, and
alienated many of his former support?
ers, was overjoyed. "With the women
'? ??'. ee, the Democrats cannot lose in
\Tov? ober." he chuckled. A threat had
been servid on him by three of the
most powerful newspapers of the state
that if ratification came they would
support an independent candidate. He
was unshaken. Later those same news?
papers actual'y got the Republican
state leaders together and offered them
their support if they would weaken in
their suffrage advocacy. All without
effect. But they couldn't scare Roberts,
and they couldn't interest the Repub?
licans.
Suffragists
Here See New
Opportunity
Leaders Echo the Opinion
of Mrs. Catt That Vic
tory M e a n s Increased
Responsibility for Sex
Jubilant Over Ratification
Mrs. Vanderlip Says Blow
to Machine Rule Will
Be One Result of Change
New York women leaders in the suf?
frage movement were jubilant over
Tennessee's ratification. Their com?
ments in general reflected tho opinion
of Mrs. Carrie Chnpraan Catt, presi?
dent of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, who in a message
to the association headquarters here
! suggested that the victory "means op?
portunity for more work and added re?
sponsibility" for women in national
service.
Mrs. Catt asked: "What are the
women going to do with the vote? Are
they going to draw back their skirts in
disdain from nil interest in politics on
1 the ground that it is corrupt, or are
i they going to be of those who will
help swell America's army of voters
j who put conscience and thought into
i the scales with party politics and party
candidates ?"
Tho women, Mrs. Catt added, were
ready for the work before them, but
the National League of Women Voters,
with state branches formed from the
old suffrage organizations, was being
formed to help them find their way
through "the maze of these besetting
questions."
The league, she explained, is "not
partisan, but pan-partisan, all parti?
san." A woman can be a member of
it and yet be a member of any politi?
cal party she may choose, she asserted.
"It is through the political parties
that we must work," Mrs. Catt con?
tinued. "They furnish us with the
? machinery through which we are en
? able?! to reach the public, keep the
public informed, through which pubbj:
' consciousness is created. Neither
j state nor nation should temporize with
? the problems of government before
? them."
I Lynchings, compelling kissing of the
j flag and deportations, the suffrage
j leader said, were not meeting the situ
I ation. She urged the women to set
j their shoulders against intolerance,
? which, she affirmed, "will cause the
crumbling of any foundation."
"Are the American women," Mrs.
: Catt asked, "going to join the army of
1 kid-gloved men slackers whom I have
, heard proudly boast that they would
? not touch polities with a ten-foot
I pole ?"
.Mrs. Vanderlip Places Credit
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, who repre
, Sents the state suffrage movement as
; chairman of the New York State Wom?
an Suffrage Association, like other
| local leaders, had already learned of
; the Tennessee result when she was
1 asked for a statement. Asked to whom
| she thought the chief credit for the
j triumph was due, she replied:
"Credit is due to the thousands of
hard working, intelligent women who
. have been willing to make every sacri
| fice for this cause."
i "The relief and joy of the suffrage
?victory to-day," Mrs. Vanderlip said,
? "is like that of Armistice Day. Both
j mean the victory of righteousness.
\ Both mean the end of a long, hard
, struggle. Both mean lives sacrificed to
a great cause the cause of democracy.
'We with uncovered head.-; salute the
silent dead.'
"The granting of the vote to the
women of America means to us who .
have longed to see them enfranchised
a apdden great recognition of the '
: dignity of all women. I cannot help
. thinking of all those little, humblfe, ?
hard-working women the country over ,
who have longed and sacrificed for
suffrage; who to-day received the re?
ward and glory of the full rights or ,
; citizenship."
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, who as !
chairman of the New YorR section of \
i the League of Women Voters, a vice- i
president of the National Association !
and chairman of the executive commit- !
tee of the women's division of the Re- j
publican National Committee, has
played a large part in advancing the I
woman's cause, declared her gratifica
tion that Tennessee should have elect- j
ed to cast the deciding vote.
"? rejoice in the action of the Ten- I
nessee Legislature," said Miss Hay. "I
rejoice, too, in Tennessee. 1 felt very j
sure that we would get that stale.
"1 am glad indeed that, ratification I
by the State of Tennessee will give the
vote to the women of Connecticut and i
Vermont.
"It is a great victory and comes after i
a hard-fought battle of more than fifty ',
years."
Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, corresponding
secretary of th'.' National American !
Woman Suffrage Association, said:
"We have always known that when
both parties got busj tho Federal
suffrage amendment could be pushed
through at once. The ratification in
Tennessee was a sign'al instance of
work in a two-party state."
Mrs. John Blair, secretary of the
Women's City Club, speaking, she said,
as an individual suffrage worker and!
as vice-chairman of the 15th Assembly'
District of the League of Women Vot- ;
ers, declared her first feeling was one |
Where the Amendment Enfranchises Women
Shaded arcas indicate states which have not had Presidential suffrage bv state onnotmom Ti fv- , ? <
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Leaders in the Suffrage Fight
Mrs. Catt is president of the Na?
tional American Woman Suffrage
Association and of the Interna?
tional Woman Suffrage Alliance.
Mrs. Whitehouse is former chair?
man of the Empire State Suffrage
party and present chairman of
the legislative committee of the
New York State League of Wom?
en , Voters. Dr. Shaw was a
pioneer in the suffrage movement
and for many years president of
the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. She died
July 2, 1919. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton was chairman of the first
woman's e?iual rights convention,
Seneca Falls, July 19, 1848.
of deep gratitude to Mrs. Catt, and her
second one of gratitude to Governor
Cox "for his splendid support."
Special Dispatch to The Tribune.
NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 18.?Mrs.
Norman Whitehouse, chairman of the
legislative committee of the New York
State League of Women Voters, in
commenting on the suffrage victory in
! Tennessee, said the victory, coming
' after the long struggle of seventy-five
years of organized campaign, was par
i "ticularly fortunate to occur at this
; time, for it will give the women the
much honed for opportunity of voting
in the Presidential election.
Mrs. Whitehouse said she thought
the victory too obvious for any ex?
pression of gratification.
The victory in New York in 1017
i was the turning point in suffrage his?
tory, not only because of its influence
| on national psychology, but because,
' counting on forty-four votes of New
: York Congressmen, the suffragists
ventured to bring their cause to a
i vote in the House of Representatives.
| Victory in the Senate followed in ejgh
? teen months.
Meantime the women had discovered
j a loophole in the Constitution which
; enabled thorn to gain the vote for
; Presidential electors (and for muni?
cipal offcers) by legislative enactment.
?This was accomplished in 1913 in II-'
linois and in the Presidential election '
I of 191? the women of Illinois cast a I
lnrge vote.
The Presidential suffrage bill has
since been passetl by twelve other
states, where the women were deter?
mined to have a voice in the 1920 elec?
tions, regardless of the progress of th?>
Federal amendment. The states which
have ratified Presidential suffrage are ',
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Minne?
sota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Da- '
kota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Wis?
consin, Ohio and Kentucky. In two
other states, Arkansas and Texas, the
women have primary suffrage, and this i
in states where there is only one party ;
amounts to full suffrage.
The combined votes of the women of '
the. full suffrage states and the Pres?
idential suffrage states total 17.500,
000. The passage of the Federal ;
amendment will increase the number j
of voting women by about 9,500,000,
The colored women of the Southern
states will be restricted in their ex?
ercise of the franchise by the same
laws which regulate the colored men's
votes.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1?.-- The suf?
frage victory in Tennessee "completes
the political democracy of America and
enfranchises half the people of a great
nation," Miss Alice Paul, chairman of
th?- National Woman's party, declared
to-day on receiving news of the Ten?
nessee vote.
27,000,000
^Womei? Have
Right to Vote
(Continued from pane one)
rescue and showed the way out of the
economy tangle by announcing that the |
members of his Legislature would at- :
tend its special session on June 16 at
their own expense. In Oregon, how?
ever, the special session for January 12
was not called until the women had of?
fered to raise a fund of CO,000 to de- ;
fray the expense. Washington won a]
black mark in suffrage history by re?
fusing lo ca'l its special session. It
was not until the "Victory Convention",
in Chicago sent an open letter to the '
women of Washington declaring that
the situation wasi critical that Gov?
ernor Hart issued a call for the session
on March ?22.
One Gives Life for Cause
There ' is one page with a black
border in ratification history, for in
Oklahoma a young suffrage worker,
Aloysius Larck-Miller, died as a re?
sult of her devotion to the campaign.
Although ill with influenza, she dis
obeyed her doctor's orders ami attended '
a Democratic county convention, where ,
ratification was being ..'tacked by the
state's Attorney General. She engaged!
in debate with him and succeeded in i
having the suffrage resolution adopted
by a |j to I vote. But she died of
pneumonie, the next day.
Suffragists had been aware from the
beginning that the real struggle for
ratification would com' with the last
states. So powerful were the influences
brought to bear upon numbers of the
West Virginia Legislature that the
large majority estimated in the suf
frage confidential poll dwindled to a
tie. Senator Bloch, who was in Cali?
fornia, was hastily summoned home, '?
and so the suffrage bill passed, with
one vote to spare. ? ?
The battle for the thirty-sixth state
lasted more than five months, costing '
women of several states their votes in
the primaries and imperiling their
participation in the Presidential elec- ?
lion itself.
Opposition in Delaware
In Delaware the suffragists met un?
expected opposition. National leaders
of both parties rallied to their sup?
port in vain. The resolution was de?
feated in tile Assembly on April 1 by
a vote so large that the suffragists
delayed presenting it to the Senate.
Four states were left to the cause,
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Vermont and Connecticut in the North,
and Tennessee and North Carolina in
the South. The influence of Republi?
can leaders was brought to bear on
the Governors of the two Republican
states in vain. Although the Legisla?
tures of both states were believed to
be in favor of the resolution, the
Governors refused to call special ses?
sions.
The national conventions of both
parties passed resolutions favoring the
speedy ratfication of tho amendment.
Senator Harding had a persons! con?
ference with Governor Clement of Ver?
mont, in Washington, at which he
urged the necessity of ratification. Soon
afterward, however, Governor Clem?
ent issued an official statement refus?
ing to call a special session.
The decision of the 5upreme Court
in regard to the prohibition and suf
?age amendments, declaring that they
could not be submitted in referenda to
the voters, opened the door for the
suffrage opportunity in Tennessee. The
constitution of this state contained a
specific provision that no change in the
state constitution could be made by
the Legislature until after the voters
had had a chance to express their will
in the matter. The Attorney General
held that the decision of the Supreme
Court invalidated this clause and the
Governor was advised that'he had the
right to present the suffrage amend?
ment to the Legislature. The official
session accordingly was called. Gov?
ernor Cox, sent messages and person.il
representatives to aid the suffra
cause and Senator Harding and the
Republican national committeemen
urged '.lie Republican minority in the
Legislature to cast their votes for it.
suffragists and anti-suffrage lead? ri
hijni other states took part in the
campaign.
Republican States Lead
From a political point o." view, the
Republican party has played the bet?
ter part in ratification, with a record
of twenty-nine states, as against seven
Democratic states which have ratifi 1.
The seven Democratic states are
Arkansas. Arizona, Missouri. Texas,
Utah, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
The amendment was proposed by a
Republican Congress.
Suffrage leaders have held aloof from
party politics ever sine, the organiza?
tion of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association in 1869. Under the
leadership of Susan B. Anthony, they
Hceepted the services of men in both
parties in Congress and in the states
where suffrage campaigns were waged,
but never became identified with either
political group. Therefore, the suf?
fragists of 1920, th.- 27,000,000 worn ?:.'
votes, are a mystery to the politicians.
There is nothing in suffrage history to
indicate how the majority of the women
will jump. Individual women have
joined the great parties and more will
do so in the next few months, owing to
the pressuT' ui the campaign and on
the advice of Mrs. ("arrie Chapman
Catt, president of the National Am >ri
ctn Woman Suffrage Association. "Get
into the parties" was adopted at the
victory convention in Chicago as the
slogan of the suffragists for the com?
ing year. There is no plan to organize
?x woman's party.
The suffrage amendment was first in?
troduced into Congress on January 10,
1878, but never passed either house un?
til forty years laver, when the House
of Representatives gave It a majorit?
of one on January 10, 191g. The ?>aj.
age in the Sonate was prevented u'nt.i
June 4, 1919, tl!
During the forty years tnat suffrae?
was battling unsuccessfully f?jta:r?*
opposition in Congres*, it was makm*
slow but steady gains in the sev?raf
states. .Suffrage leaders in those yean
put their chief endeavor on "state bv
state" victory, knowing that when ?
majority of the states had wo?
voters their Representatives in (J?a.
gross would quick?j the iirf*
After Wyoming, the following sute/'
came in: Colorado, Uta , Wm;h
iiigton, California, f ''egon*
Arizotia, Alaska, Montana, N'?vada!
New York, South Dakota, Michigan ana
Oklahoma.
Jersey Antis Raise
New Technicality
Constitutional Provision
Cited in Plan to Keep
the Ballot From Women
TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 1*. While
suffragists through? I I state were
rejoicing in the news front Tennessee
and announcing plans for active par
ticipation in the fall cont? sts fot state
and county offices a ' .' ta of ;h?
suffrage movemi . t ing to
day that ratifical ndmeai
by Tennessee did nol necessarily i&
d i cate that women permitted
to vote in New- Jersey.
Opponent ig? were suggest
ing to-night that New J? rsey reje:te<
the proposal to ise women b?
a decish . ?? ? ind it ii
cited further that the state constita
tion specifically pi ? ?t onl?
"male" persons can < cerci ?? the righ
of the ballot.
It is contended ' .' until the stat
constitution is amended women will b
barre:! from the polls, ai d the pain
also is made that a prop sed amend
mer.t to the constitution must first b
submit ted to -. oters of t?
state for their decision.
Govern.-/: Edw isked'?i
torney General Tho - ran fc
an opinion as to the status of N'ewJei
sey worn n at ti i, as cted i?
the ratification by Tenn? ?-. but tl
Attorney G?nerai said he would be ui
able to determine the various points;
issue until he' made a thorough s;tic
of the law. It is Attorn?
General will g; inion within
few days.
Holcomb Still I ndocided
On Extra Session Ca
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. IS..
Whether Governor ? ?olcon
will call a special session of the Co
necticut General Assembly in conne
t i'jn with the register ? ' of women
the state following ratification of tl
woman suffrage amendment will not
di rided until the pi : - statute
studied, according to Executive Seci
tary John Buckley to-n ?
Governor Hoi lid not
reached, but Major Buckley said: "T
issue will be mel ' ernoraft
the Federal State Departmi
sued t !-?? proc an
Federal amendment effective, and aft
it has been detei r t
? statute in ( mnect it off?
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