Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-08
THINKS MRS. BELMONT
SHOULD KEEP HANDS OFF
Mrs, Medill Mccormick Criticises
Attempt to Halt Vote
on Suffrage.

: Replying to the threat made by Mrs.
20 H. P. Belmont of New York, in a
TELEGRAM sent to Senator Ashurst of
ARIZONA. Friday. opposing vote in the
>Senate on the pending woman suffrage
constitutional amendment, Mrs. Mediil
ZMcCormick, chairman of the congress
-sional committee Of the National
american Woman Suffrage Association,
ISSUED a statement last night in which
yshe said that Mrs. Belmont does not
represent any Of the $4,000 women OF
athe national organization.
For the first time since the woman
suffrage movement became prominent
factor in national politics a majority OF
the Senate has insisted that there shaii
sRAe~ vote, Aand at the request or every
woman interested in the movement so
liar as / know, the majority was acting
Hin accord with the wishes of suffras1sts
lin urging consideration and vote upon
1.-THE resolution" said Mrs. McCormlck
,i."That is the position of the national as
!. ISOLATION, and the congressional commit
s.tee has been carrying out its wishes.
I. Classed as "Antagonist."
y Eat the recent hearing before the
,judiciary committee one of the mem
,bers Of the executive committee of the
iCongressional Union, a faction which
IDS acting in antagonism to the National
iAmerican Woman Suffrage Association,
tswhen asked to give the number of the
members which the Congressional
rUnion represented. declined to do so,
.tbut asserted that the union had 'un-
ilimited financial resources 1t has been
published that Mrs. Belmont
i,contributed $1,000 to the Congressional
Union. and in view of her telegram to
! Senator Ashurst l naturally infer that
'l,she was the unlimited financial re-
ftqOurCeS' faction r.
Tiers in Washington, which has been
slanta gonizing the organized suffragists
.iof the country
l. But leaving all of these minor annoy
ances out of the question, it is the desire
:.of the suffragists of the United States to
i have vote upon the resolution which
they have been advocating for so many
iiyears. We know that if the resolution is
t,set aside. it is doubtful if it ever can be
X brought up again. The debate in the
U Senate has been most useful and instruc-
! tive. Diffe: ent members of the Senate
have shown their point of view and voiced
1.-THE sentiments existing in their respective
4 states. 1t has brought forward informa-
/, ton which is useful to the suffragists
& Everywhere.
i Victory for the Cause"
Il "The fact that we have secured a ma
4 tority in the Senate to keep the resolu-
ton in its place of advantage is a dis
: tinct victory for the suffrage cause To
elay it aside at the beheast of one woman
X who is not authorized to speak for the
organized suffragists of the country
!, would be a great mistake and set back
. the cause of suffrage for years.
b The Congressional Union announced
blast night that hearty responses are
& being received from suffragists in all
II parts of the country to the invitations
I. to participate in a nationwide suffra ge
= demons ration May .. In Illinois the
+ governor has been asked to make the
say a legal holiday. In Philadelphia
3 a large parade will be held that day.