The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-11-01
Third Term Candidate Was Con- sistentIy Their Enemy Till
 He Needed Their Votes.
COULD HAVE CARRIED OHIO
But Big Bull Moose Took to the Yer mont Woods-Noted Woman Ex-
 poses His Change of Front.
By IDA BUSTED HARPER.

The PrOgroSS1Ve party naQ us HrSI
 opportunity to show it's loyalty to the
 woman suffrage plank in its platform
 when the vote was taken in Ohio on a new constitution Forty-two amend
 ments were on the ballot, and all were
 adopted except the one for woman
 Suffragei
 Ohio is one of the banner" Progress sive states, and MT. Roosevelt expects
 to secure it's electoral vote. In order to do this a plurality of the electors must be Progressives, and they could therefore have easily. carried the sui frage amendment if all the others had voted against it, as the vote on the
 constitution was very light, only | few hundred thousand out of more than a million who were eligible. Did { he issue any orders to this effect? Did he say to his followers: Now, here is our first chance to show the women that we mean business. Of course if we win in November we, will give the franchise to all in the United States, ; but just now we can make good by ; giving it to those in Ohio, so let every Progressive vote for the woman suf' frage amendment?'' Did he do this? On the contrary, he completely ig- nored the matter, although he passed through Ohio the very day of the cleo ton.
 A few days before, at St. Johnsbury, Vt, MT. Roosevelt had devoted large part of his speech to showing how strongly he believed in the ballot for women and how anxious he was for them to get it. The question was not an issue there or likely to be, but it was vital issue in Ohio, to be settled in four days, and yet not by spoken or written word did he show to the peo- pie of Ohio that he knew of it's ex- istence
 Two days after the Progressive par ty in Ohio permitted the defeat of this amendment it's state convention met. If any women were elected delegates the press dispatches failed to mention it, and in the platform woman suf- frage plank was conspicuous by its ab- sence. "The Progressive party pledges itself to the task of securing equal suf- sfrage to men and women alike" says it's national platform, and Ohio has just given the first example of the way it apparently means to keep that pledge.
 In MT Roosevelts second term the suffragists determined to make every possible effort to secure an indorse- ment from him. As Miss Susan B. Anthony's most eloquent letters to him received no answer, she went in person to see him in November, 1905, just four months before her death. With all her powers of persuasion she pleaded with him to recommend in his forthcoming message some recognition of woman's claim to a voice in the government. Laying her hand on his arm, she looked up into his face and said, 'T beg of you to be the emanci- pator of woman as Lincoln was the emancipator of the slave" He was not resembling Lincoln so much in those days as he is at present, and he re- mained totally unmoved by her ap- peals.
 Scant Courtesy at White House.
 Shortly before he left the White House several officers of the National Suffrage association, realizing his great influence on public opinion, made one last effort to have him speak favorable word. He came into the outside lobby of the executive of flee, required them to state their busi- ness before the crowd waiting to see him and would hardly give them a chance to speak, but kept saying, "Go and get another state" He shrugged his shoulders and turned on his heel, and then they said, 'If we will get up a petition of a million names will that influence your" "No," he replied. mot one particle"
 That was in 1909. The next year a letter from him was read at an anti suffrage meeting in the Berkeley thea ter, New York, in which he said: "I am very tepid on woman suffrage"
 The cause of woman's enfranchise- ment has no more implacable enemy than the Outlook, and MT. Roosevelt is on the editorial staff Last Feb ruary he had in that magazine a ten column article entitled "Woman's Rights but the only right considered was that of the suffrage. The article was such an excellent exposition of the attitude of women who do not wish to vote that the Anti-suffrage as- sociation ordered copies for distribu- tion. In this article he said again, "In our western states where the suf- 1 frage has been granted to women am unable to see that any great differ ence has been caused as compared with neighboring states.''
 And yet just four months after this publication, when MT. Roosevelt had definitely decided to make the contest: | for the presidential nomination, all his scruples about forcing suffrage on hostile and indifferent majority van ished in thin air because a million and a half already had votes and the colo; nel wanted them, and he knew they