The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28
WOMEN WILL VOTE
IN 1917. SAYS CLARK
Inevitable, Speaker Tells Dele
CATION Of Suffragists In
Washington.
MARSHALL NOT so CERTAIN
vice-Prcsidcnt Explains Wife
Doesn't Approve Of
Movement.
MARSHALL NOT so CERTAIN

WASHINGTON, June 27-By 1917 or a
little later, women will be voting in
every state in the Union for national
officials, Speaker Clark told a suffrage
delegation to-day after the delegation
had presented 800 petitions from thirty
eight States.
Woman suffrage il as inevitable as
the rising Of to-morrow's sum-" the
Speaker said, $50 / hope you will con-
tnUe in the peaceable ways in which
you have started"
In presenting the petitions bearing
100000 signatures, DR.. Anna Howard
shaw. Jane Adams and Mrs. Henry
Desha Breckenridge urged the Speaker
to have Congress act on the suffrage
question at once.
wants the states ENCOURAGED.
I'VE feel that our method Is so slow
IN our campaign In the various States"
said DIR. Shaw. that not as much prog
ress will be made In this way as would
I've possible II Congress encouraged the
States"
Throughout his talk the Speaker In
dcated to the suffragists that they
would have little success II they forced
Congress to act on an amendment TO
the Constitution at this time. He said
the best way for them to do is to con-
tinue their fight in the various States,
and added that III the question comes
up In Missouri I'll vote for suffrage"
For 5000 years" said the Speaker,
men have been trying TO run the
world and some people think we have
made bad mess OF it, II you women
run it, hope you will improve over U.S."
You are going at this thing in the
right way. The frst article OF the
United States Constitution provides that
every one shall have the right to petition
Congress or the Government. hope
that you will continue in the peaceable
methods you are now using.
Qualifications of Electors.
Now to go back to the root Of this
whole thing. Article OF section of
the Constitution provides that the
electors in each State shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors in
the most numerous branch OF the State
Legislatures. Ii has been considered a
matter for State management this vot-
ing business. except in the case OF
Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, which everybody knows
were shot into the Constitution. The
special necessities were what made the
people take that method Of getting wha,
they were after instead OF tho usual
method Of procedure among the States
There are two methods of amending
the Constitution. You can begin here or
YOU can begin in the States. When
ever three-fourths of the States recon-.
mend an amendment to the Constitution
then It goes No one seems to hav,
paid much attention to the method Of
beginning with the States. / think you
are going at It in the right way.
THE only question for you folks tc
consider is how you can expeditiously
get what you want, because l think
you are going to get 1t. My own judg
ment Is that you can get 1t quicker
through the States than through Con.
gress. At the rate you are going now Il
looks to me as II you might get 1t In
three, four or five years.
VIII Vote for II Himself.
MY own position, and l might as wei
make that clear to you now, because
have got to do It some time, is that
think women should vote. Whenever Il
Ia submitted in Missouri ] am going e
vote for II. When you do get the vot,
hope that you will vote for the bes
principles and the best men"
Vice President Marshall was not &C
aaftafartnr,, In
Clark Mrs. Breckenridge demanded tc
know what reason he had for not grant.
ing women the ballot at once, IL he
believed woman suffrage to be good
thing, as she believed he really did.
u wish the men in Congress would
get away from the usual masculin,
case" she said.
drawled the Vice President, II can"
get away from my wife. You know
Mrs Marshall Is not a suffragist. Ant
! don't want to. either"
"Of course you don't want to gel
away from your wife" said Mrs
Breckenridge. but you ought to us,
your persuasive powers TO convert hel
to woman suffrage"
Eioauence Wasted on Marshall.
Or. Anna Howard Shaw also used he,
eloquence on the Vice-President, bu
there was no appreciable softening o
his intent.
Miss Adams said that the Govern
ment was gradually taking over tn,
work which has been done by womer
IN lettering civic and sanitary condi
tons
She urged that the ballot be given Il
women so that they might continue 4
work for better conditions.
Mrs. Medill Mccormick was amonI
the besieging suffraglsts. Anothe
woman for the cause who Is yer!
plump wandered out into the corridor
by herself and had a stroke OF luck. Sh
captured" Secretary BRYAN while h
was on his way TO discuss the Me
aTaguan treaty She almost embrace,
him u arguing "the cause" ana the Sec
rotary had to resort to strong arm
tactics, assisted by a willing elevate
man, before he could extricate him
self from tho aifnatinp