Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-23
EFFECTIVE WILL
 BE ELECTION LAW E'ramers of Measure Plan to Make Successful Steals
 Impossible.
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Legislature Will Again Be Asked to Take Steps to Extend Ballot to Women, and Indications Appear
 Favorable for Success.
(By A. w. Parke)


 Little Rock, July 22.-The new state election law, which is being prepared by the committee appointed by the state Democratic convention, will be tight as a drum head, and be able to stand alone, according to Judge Joseph M. Hill, one of the committee. Each member or the committee, of which Stephen Brund- idge is the chairman, is now making a rough draft of the sections he he thinks should be embodied in the new law, and there will soon be a meeting at which the best of these will be selected, and the work of framing them into bill will be as- signed to one member of the commit tee.
 According to Judge Hill, the bill must contain caluse which will for felt the nomination in Case a con- test is sustained, and ways will be devised to provide a tribunal for the hearing of protests, where the con- testants will have ample protection
 The members of the committee are convinced that the people want an election law that will force absolute honesty ill elections, and that they willinsist that the legislature adopt the report of this committee, if it is drastic enough to insure the candi- date receiving the highest number of legitimate votes, the nomination.
 Woman Suffrage Bill.
 One bill will come before the legis- lature in 1915 which has been there several times before, but it will not be treated like bloomer when it re- turns this time. This is the woman's suffrage question. The bill, provid- ing for a constitutional amendment to be submitted to the people, will be one of the early measures of the session, and from the momentum the cause has gained in Arkansas, and the powerful lobby of willing workers that is sure to be snatching button holes about the legislative chambers, success seems assured. If the bill is put through campaign eclipsing anything staged in the Southwest, may be anticipated. The gubernatorial contest of Texas and Oklahoma, and the senatorial battles of Arkansas and Louisiana will fade into insignificance in comparison to the stumping the women orators would do. In addition to these will ing speakers, many of the leading men of Arkansas are aligned with the movement, and they have aXpress- cd willingness to speak whenever called upon.
 The leaders of the Political Equal ity league showed their aversion to politics when they passed up the Democratic state convention, to have the Republicans put a suffrage plank in their platform. It is like a heavy batter being given base On balls in ball game, to permit the pitcher to get at weaker batsman. The wom- en did not even ask the Democrats to indorse their cause, but landed with both feet on the Republican conven- tion, which looked on with fear and trembling, and inserted the plank in evident fear there would be English militant tactics attempted.
 The platform committee of the Democratic convention did not have much to do, so good show was spoiled by the suffragettes not ap- bearing at Pine Bluff and asking for the plank the Republicans later built for them.
 Fort Smith Begins Fight.
 Within ten days Fort Smith will be added to the "dry" towns of Arkan- aas, unless some legal step can be