Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-08-15

Senator Jones Of Washington CAV,
this testimony. Il come from a state
whore the right of suffrage has been
extended to women. and that some OF
the prophecies of those Who were op
posed to il have been fulfilled, and
that practically all the hopes of those
who were in favor OF it have been re-
! allied" Senator Thomas said thai
woman Suffrage in Colorado is no
longer an experiment. II has been
tried, and it has risen in full meas
ure to the expectations of those who
were originally its advocates" Sen
ator Shatfroth of the same state added
speech bearing favorable testimony
for the women.
Senator Works Of California said
I am sorry to hear any woman de-
mand the suffrage as a right or claim
it as privilege. should rather hear
her call for it as giving her the OPP
portunity to perform a sacred duty
she owes to her country and state, an
opportunity that will enable her to
assist in raising the standard of poll
Tics, of citizenship, and the purity of
our civic life" Senator Ashurst of
Arizone said that the granting of the
| lective franchise to women would add
% the strength, efficiency, justice and
! fairness of government l have not the
slightest doubt, and this is especially
true in the United States, where all
power is reposeG in the people, with
universal suffrage as the primal basis
of it's exercise"
Senator Poindexter of Washington
appeared as vigorous champion for
the cause for which he marched,
fought and suffered" in the great pa
rade of March 3. He said: This
movement for woman suffrage is a
part of the general tendency of the
lge toward enlarging the participation
If the people in the government 1t is
,lso part of the age-long rise of wom-
from the state Of servility and sub
ection which they formerly occupied
n domestic as we'll as in political af-
airs" Even Senator Gallinger of
Jew Hampshire declared in favor of
,uffrage, and Lane of Oregon, one of
he states where women vote, made an
address endorsing the movement, as
lid colleague, Mr.. Chamberlain.
Townsend of Michigan said that DE
lieving as do that women should have
he same political rights as man,
shall cheerfully do what I can to Sc
cure such right for her." Mr.. Smith
Of the same state gave an interesting
estimony. He said: 81 presume few,
f any senators have had the distin-
guished honor which have personally
enjoyed of accompanying my mother
o the polls as full-fedged voter in
he state of California did not feel
that the dignity of the American peo-
pie or the strength and perpetuity Of
the republic were endangered by that
course"
Senator Owen of Oklahoma declared
that "the reasons for this request on
the part of the women in the country
are overwhelming unanswerable." Pom
creme of Ohio gave favorable testimony.
Senator La Toilette said he could not
-emember a time when l was not in
favor of extending the suffrage to
women" and he added that the civil
lzation is best and most advanced
where men and women cooperate and
mutually respect each other" Senator
Sherman of Illinois made a favorable
speech, stating that 81 do not content
myself with merely the idle presenta-
ton on my part of these petitions"
Senator Crawford spoke of the situa-
ton in South Dakota: 81 am satisfied
that their demand for it has grown
steadily and widely throughout the
state"
Thus 1t appears from the above pick
ed selections from addresses by Amer
ica's great senators that it is no longer
unpopular to advocate woman suffrage
in high political places.