Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-01
OHIO WOMEN
 WANT SUFFRAGE: Question Will Be Voted Tn Buckeye State Next
 Tuesday. MANY NEW CLAUSES In New State Constitution Will Vote
 To Abolish Capital
 Punishment.
MANY NEW CLAUSES

their prediction campaign for the adoption of the eqaal suffrage blank included in the new Ohio eonstitu- ton to be submitted to the voters of the state on Tuesday.
 In every town and hamlet advo- oates of equal suffrage addressed in terested throngs of tewnspcople and farmers. Postal cards were dispatch ed to the male voters of the State entreating them to support the entire constitution as framed by the consti- tutional convention which ended it's labors here in July last and particu- larly were they adjured to vote for the suffrage plank. section No. 9l, which provides for tine removal of the word white male from the pro- visions of the constitution, prescrib- ing who may exercise the franchise in Ohio"
 This clause, if adopted, will give the women of Ohio a voice in the polls and will add over hundred thous- and voters to the national electorate
 in time for the presidential elections in November.
 The campaign of the women for ] the inclusion of this plank in the con- stitution adopted by the constitutional convention was most strenuous and has been supplemented by a we'll or dered and forceful war upon the anti suffragists of the State in order to swing popular opinion to the side of l WomanS suffrage
 The manner of placing the consti- tuition before the voters of Ohio on Tuesday favors the adoption of this plan, every clause with the exception of the liquor license plank being printed under one head. The 1iquor clause is to be set at onse side on the ballot. This makes it not inn expressing their favor of the majority of the up-to-date and radical chages adopted by the constitutional conven- ton, will carry the suffrage plank to victory
 | The proposals of the new consti- tuition for Ohio cover almost every subject of political discussion ill the last ten years.
 Among these proposals are the ini- tiative and referendum without the re- I call, the licensing of the liquor busi- l ness, the giving of home rule to muni- cipalities, the reform of the civil jury system by allowing nine jurors to return a verdict, the reform of the judicial system to provide one tf and one review in most cases, the taxing Of incomes, inhertances, min eral production and franchises, sim plification of the method of amend l ing the constitution and provisions 1 for the issuance of bonds for the state highways.
 The need for revision of the Ohio constitution arose from the prOvin- cialism of it's original document. The first constitution was framed in 1851, when the population of Ohio was small in number and largely engaged l in the pursuit of agricultural enter prises. Tn making over this document the Ohionians of 1912 have framed constitution looking we'll to the needs of the present race of city dwellers.
 The new constitution contains among the other clauses the follow ing:
 To put private banks under State inspection, heretofore, impossible, and , to make stockholders of banks liable to depositors to the amount of double their stock
 To allow the enactment of laws to regulate the sale of stocks, bonds,
 securities and other personal prop
 erty.
 To modify the governors veto pow CT by roQuCluS HUH Ino-.hiA o' '
 three-fifths the proportion of the As sembly needed to overturn an eXecu- tive veto.
 To allow women to be appointed
 notaries public and to positions ln
 State institutions where women ana
 children are cared for.
 To allow all nominations, state county, district and city, to be made
 at direct primaries. Exempts villages and townships, but required preslden- tial preference primaries. f To abolish capital punishment. To give the Assembly power to en- act conservation laws. To allow the use of voting ma chimes.