Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-24
Thursday, September "a, 1914
Let Congress Awake.

The latest move of woman suffragists
is to down Democratic candidates for
Congress, because the suffrage amend
ment was blocked in the Democratic
Congress. Indeed we hope they will
succeed-and then we hope they will
serve a Republican Congress the same
way if it fails to recognize that phase
of Christian progress which finds eX-
preston in equal suffrage.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, president of
the Political Equality Association of
New York and a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage has sent
an appeal to the women voters in the
nine suffrage states, asking them to
cast their votes against the Democratic
candidates for Congress in the nine
suffrage states, owing to the blocking
of the suffrage amendment by the
National Democratic party. She ap-
peals to them to use their voting
strength to secure the franchise for the
women of the whole United States.
Thousands of copies of this appeal
have been printed and distributed
through the Western states. The ap-
peal reads in part as follows:
Il, as an unenfranchised woman, re-
siding in the State of New York where,
under the law, women rank with mi
nors, aliens, criminals and idiots, send
this appeal to you, the women of the
West, living in an enfranchised state
and recognized in the community as
voting citizens possessing equal rights
with the men of our country.
THE treatment accorded the woman
suffrage amendment by the present
Congress enables you to judge of the
apparent uselessness of going before
any body of politicians empty-handed,
as voteless women must.
AT a conference of eminent suffra-
gists from many States held at Marble
House, Newport, August % and 80, the
Congressional Union, Of Washington,
d c., working in behalf of the federal
suffrage amendment, passed a resolu-
ton calling upon the women voters of
the enfranchised states to use the
power they possess, in a united effort
to defeat every Democratic candidate
for the United States Senate and House
of Representative until the Demo-
cratic Government recognizes the JUS
tice of our demand and facilitates the
passage of the Bristow- Mondell
amendment for woman suffrage l ask
you to remember that we have no more
OF a grievance against the Democratic
party than the Republican party. 1t is
Our purpose to oppose any party in
power that uses such power to oppose
the Acknowledgement of the women of
America.
LAS from time immemorial women
have stood together, shoulder to Shout
der, for the betterment Of civic condi-
tons, for reforms that political cor
ruptions make necessary, for the re-
servation of human life; for high re-
ligious standards, the protection of the
home, the uplift of humanity: SO now
we of the East are confident that the
justice-loving women of the West will
CO. operate in demanding of our gov
eminent the political enfranchisement
of the women of the United States.
II is in the power of women to free
women, the most exalted task the
world has ever set: and the achieve
ment viii glorify forever the sister
hood of a new era which heralds the
complete unity of the women of the
future"