Evening journal., 1914-03-20
.SUFFRACISTS
ARE HOPEFUL
AFTER DEFEAT
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every State to deny the right 10 vote
on the grounds Of race. color or
previous condition Of servitude." was
defeated. as to 10, many democratic
Senators voting against IT, Another
amendment introduced by Senator
Williams. OF Mississippi. which would
have changed the suffrage amendment
to make It read only that no white
person should be deprived Of the
right Of suffrage on account OF sex,
was voted down. "A TO 21.
Senator Williams in answering "a plea
for the, negro by Senator Gallinger of
Now IL pshire. commented u lt Sena-
Ton Oallinger could argue until hc was
gray headed without convincing the SEN
ator from Mississippi that he really be-
licved IN the equality Of the races.
senator Callinger is bald all the way
down TO the ears. and he rose n little
Indignantly 20 inquire what Senator
Williams had said After hearing again
hc said;
"And the Senator from Mississippi
may argue until ho is baldhcoded lScna-
tor Williams has a spare crop of gray
hairl without convincing me that l am
wrong. but would like to ask him
about the Democratic platform ol 1884
on which Grover Cleveland was elected,
and which promised Tint the negroes
vote should not be disturbed
"1lmt plank was inserted just TO
catch a few loose votes.' laughed Sena.
tor Williams. ooh, let'f be frank about
these thngsr
May 4 ask it IL resembles in that re-
poct the provision with regard TO the
exemption oftolls TO coastwise ships IN
the last Democratic PLATFORM inquired
Senator Callmgcr
Precisely, and il probably was slip
ped into the platform ia the same way,
answered Senators Williams
Suffrage has not proved panucea
for an the evils in Colorado, the State
of the senator who is So strongly u,e-
ing this amendment declared Scnntor
MARITIME. of New Jersey. "An impartial
investigation recently made by a we'll
known magazine showed that conditions
ont there. politically and In other ways,
are Just as bad as they were before and
certainly the strike situation, would
seem TO lead TO that conclusion
senetor Thomas said he had nesoc as.
serted that suffrage would be a general
panorra for an evils"
Strike out the general and leave
'panaoea' them" restored Senator
MARITIME "l am not a lawyer, thank
God, and am not making quibhles
The Senator knows what / mean.
Coming down from New York the
other day / saw hundreds of pretty,
sweet faced young women, mere 81 ps
of girls. herded together by older
women with great sashes on them
saying. in letters. four inches high, j
want TO vote. and ! could not help
thinking that more than the vote
and more than anything else they
needed the care of some kind-heart-
ed. motherly woman"
Senator Ollie James. of Kentucky.
attacked the suffrage movement say
ing that seventy thousand negroes I'm
Kentucky voted az every election
/ now. and he did not want to double
] that problem. He said that at a re-
cent school election 2l0 negro wOm-
on voted at his home prec net and
4 only twenty-one white women.
How Senate Lined Up.
Senators voting for the Suffrage
amendment were:
Ashurst. Brady. Brisiow, Burton,
Chamberlain. Clapp. Clark (Wyol,
Ganineer, Gronna. Hollis. Hu hes,
Jones, Kenyon. La Folette, Lane,
: Lea. Meyers, Nelson. Newlands. } or
ris. owen. Perkins. Poindexter Rams
dell. Shafroth. Sheppard. Sherman,
SmOot. Stephenson. Sterling Suther-
land. Thomas Thompson. Townsend
and Works-35.
Senators voting against the amend
ment were.
Bankhead. Borah. Bradley. Brande-
gee Bryan. Catron. ID bingham. du-
pcnt, Gore. James, Johnson. Lee
(Maryiand). Lodge, NJ Cumber. Nc.
Lean. Martin. MARITIME. Oliver, Over
man. Page. pittman. Pomerene. Reed
Shields. Smith (Ga). Smith (Mll
Smith Is. c.. Swanson. Thornton
Tillman. Vardaman, Weeks, West and