The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09

AitSf tno party nAQ otnClAlIy muorHeu tne
amendment, treacherously bartered 1t for
a campaign fund to elect Mckinley and
barred the suffrage speakers from their
platform They still maintained their policy
Of silence, though al exposure OF these
actions would have won for them thousands
Of votes.
The leaders OF the suffrage campaign
In New Hampshire in 1908 discovered such
a political conspiracy among the Boston
and Maine Railroad, the manufacturers
and the Republican machine: as would
have electrified the public, hardened as
It Ia 10 such combinations, and this they,
could undoubtedly nave turned 10 the
advantage OF the suffrage amendment,
but they preserved absolute silence then
and thereafter.
THE OREGON CAMPAIGN.
In all Of the nearly twenty suffrage amend
ment campaigns there never was such
an open, shameless and vicious fight made
on the measure as that in Oregon last year.
The Southern Pacific Railroad, practically
all the large corporations in the State,
the Wholesale Brewers and Liquor Dealers
Association, the gambling houses, the
brothels and the small but wealthy Anti
! outrage hbbOCldIlOH Vi WOIlAbu
forces, raised an immense fund, hired lawyers
and agents and over their own signatures
in the newspapers and through circulars
implored the voters TO defeat this amend
ment.
They made in the open the same kline
Of a fight hat in other States had been
made in secret. Their paid attorney and
manager was 30 we'll known 10 earn his
living by acting legally for the houses OF
III lame that when he appeared before
the Mavor TO ask some favor for these
! places that official told him to send the
women themselves. az he had more respect
for them than for their attorney, After
the election this lawyer stated in one OF
the Portland papers that he had been backed
by the TRUSTS" the LIQUOR interests and
both political parties. The liquor dealers
themselves openly boosted that thew raised
a fund OF S25o,ooo for the campaign and
the corporations were credited with as
much more. o.
The suffrage leaders openly denounced
theae and many more Of the corrupt methods
Of the campaign by press and platform
in Oregon and through their own official
organs, but one feels that the whole country
should have been made to ring with the
exposure and that Mt the national suffrage
convention held in Chicago last February
the dis g~raceful story should AVE been
told from the platform in such detail as
could have been spread broadcast by the
papers Of that city. II the public could
actually know the methods used to defeat
this measure, the character OF its oppo-
nentS, the combinations formed against it.
sympathy. and indignation would 20 far
toward Rrousing the indifferent and crys-
tallizing into practical shape the sentiment
already in its favor.
"DID BRoDIE DO THAT?" AsKED ROOSEVELT.
The situation in Arizona IL n case in
point. A few years z n woman suf-
frage bill was passed. by it's Legislature
and immediately vetoed by it's Republican
Governor, Brodie, an appointee Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
When a committee Of women afterward
called the Presidents attention to this he
said. did Brodie do that? I wish 7 had
known in time, I might nave done some
thing to prevent IT," During the last
winter the women decided to try to get
another bill through the Arizona Legisla-
ture. put this time they were wise enough
to go first to the present Governor. Kibbey.
He stated frankly that he would veto such
a bill.
When he was told what the President
had said he il reported TO have answered.;
'On the contrary. it is we'll known that
Brodie got a promotion because he vetoed
that BILL To a politician IL would seem
as If this whole thing should at once have
been made public in order to smoke out
the truth, but the suffr gists have preferred
to keep it perfectly quiet because they
still hug the fond delusion that before Mr..
Roosevelt goes out OF office he will throw
the great weight Of the Presidential influence
in favor Of their cause.
WHERE DOES THE PRECEDENT srAND2
He voted for it when in the New York
Legislature and recommended it when
Governor and he is 30 strenuous an advocate
OF the square deal" that they do not see how
he can fail them. But as he has refrained
from expressing himself during his six
years in office. although begged to do so
by Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony up to
almost the last hour Of their lives, there
would seem to be small hope for it now,
on the eve OF a Presidential campaign,
when every political factor must be care
fully considered and all OF them are opposed
to woman suffrage.
The ~forbearsnce OF women with the out
rageous violation Of the rights of women
citizens by Congress is also past compre-
hension. In all these sixty yearSonly three
times has the question Of woman suffrage
been permitted to come to a discussion in
the Senate. and once, or possibly twice, in
the House, and then only because there
was a party advantage to be gained by it.
During the last twenty years, except
for the discussion on admitting Wyoming.
this question has been ignored alb solutely
by our Congress, and yet during this time it
has been discussed and voted on by parlia-
ments in all parts OF the world and lie con-
sidered annually in that Of Great Britain.
The ama8ement lie not that Congress has
been thus dereliot but that our women
have allowed it. They might at least have
made the members miserable.
Great Britain never in her history has
forced q colony or a dependency TO dis
franchise Its women. but our Congress did
this in Hawaii in spite OF the opposition
OF the Governor and the Supreme Court
Justice sent here 20 arrange for the annex
alton.
SETBACK FOR FILIPINO WOMEN.