Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-04-01

NEXT TO MEXICO AND TRUSTS, 1T
Is SUBJECT THAT MOST IN
TEREsTs CONGRESS.
WOMEN MAKING HEADWAY
Plan for Invasion of South, Where the
Opposition Is Strongest-Farm-
ers Are Said to Be Com
ing Over Strong"
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

5y GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-Next to Mexico and
The trusts, suffrage is the chief sub
lect OF enlivening interest to congress
and the populace in the city of Wash
ington today. Senator Ashurst OF
Arizona has charge OF the resolution
proposing constitutional suffrage
amendment and every time he brings
1t within sight OF his brethren of the
senate there is a clashing OF arms
And sounding OF trumpets.
Ii seems that some of the senators
think 1t is best to wait yet awhile
for political reasons" before voting
On the constitutional amendment
proposition. They have an idea that
suffrage will prevail In two-thirds OF
the states before long as the result OF
state enacted laws and that then
every senator can vote for the amend
ment without any fear OF trouble at
home, because he can say to his OPP
posing constituents that two-thirds OF
the states OF the Union are in favor
OF it and therefore it Is useless TO
kick against the pricks.'
1t is apparent in Washington that
even the strongest opponents of the
woman suffrage movement seem to be-
lieve that eventually it will prevail
all over the United States. Those
who so think base their belief simply
on the progress which suffrage has
made within the last few years, vir-
tually an uninterrupted progress.
some men who are opposed to it say
they are just as much opposed to it
as ever, but that it is TO come into
its own and therefore before long
they must get themselves into a mood
TO accept the inevitable. These same
men say that If it does come it will
prove itself to be a failure because
they have an idea that woman will
get tired of voting and that in time to
come. while the privilege will be hers,
she will not take advantage Of it,
Hardest Fight in South
The women of the county who are
devoted to the suffrage cause have
realized for great many years that
their hardest fight is to be made in.
the South. Most of the southern
members in congress are opposed to
woman suffrage. At the suffrage head
made to invade the South in behalf
of the cause of suffrage. commit
tee composed Of noted women. good
speakers all OF them and represent
ing every element in the suffrage
cause, soon will make a trip through
the South in a private car and will
speak in many OF the larger cities and
probably in scores OF the smaller
places which lie between
Or. Anna Howard Shaw. president
OF the National Suffrage association,
heads the list of the invaders With
her will go Mrs. Stanley Mccormick
Mrs. Susan Fitzgerald and Mrs
Rautz-Reese Of Boston. Mrs. An.
toinnette Funk a sister-in-law of the
Progressive party's candidate for gov
ernor of Illinois; Mrs. Desha Breck.
enridge, a member of the famous
breckenridge family of Kentucky.
and Mrs. Medill Mccormick daughter
of the late Senator Mark Hanna OF
Ohio.
Farmers Being Converted.
The farmers of the country showed
in the last campaign that they were
not as strong for the suffrage move
ment as the women expected Now 1t
Is declared at the headquarters Of the
suffragists ia Washington that the
farmers are coming over strong"
They say. taking Ohio as an example
that from all over that state there Ia
demand for suffrage speakers, and
for suffrage organization. and that tho
movement is so general that women
are confident that at the next election
their cause will be sanctioned.
woman suffrage amendment to tho
Ohio constitution is to be submit
ted AT the next general election in
that state
Congress is tremendously stirred up
over this woman suffrage question and
II has been so stirred UP all winter
/ There are a good many representa-
tives. especially from the northern
states. who while AZ heart opposed to
woman suffrage are afraid that WON
ans opposition may hurt them at the
polls. The women are taking advan-
tage OF this situation and are now pre-.
pairing to wage campaigns against all
anti-suffrage candidates for congress
IN the campaign ~ next fall
Freight Case Undecided.
The months are rapidly passing
and yet the interstate commerce
commission IS still AZ its work try
ing to determine definitely and prop.
erly whether or not the great rail
road corporatcLs OF the western
country arc entitled 10 tack five per
cent additional on the charges for car
rying freight 10 VA thought recently
that no decision iu The case could be
reached until next september. Presi
! dent Wilson became worried over the
/ delay and while be- could not inter.
I pose personally 'or fear OF having 81
charged that DO was trying 20 preju-
dice the coae. 81 was announced
quickly that decision probably would
be reached before june