Arizona republican., 1914-10-06
MANY S0L0NS
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Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Swamp ed With Appeals to Call Off the Dogs of War i'll Suffrage States
BY MISS JANE PINCuS

Protests against the national cam pai2n policy of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Of oppos ing all of the democratic candidates for congress in each of the nine states where women vote, have been pouring into the Phoenix headquarters at 112 Central avenue and the national head quarters at Washington, D. C., have been overwhelmed with protests from all nine suffrage states. The demo- cratic members of congress at Wash ington are evidently reading their home newspapers and they realize that the threats that the Congressional Union have been making for the past year to fight their reelection have be- come a painful reality. The Washing ton headquarters reports that num- Der of democratic congressman from the suffrage states have called within the past week. Each one made an earnest plea that the campaign be called off and assured the leaders at the Congressional Union headquarters that he would do everything possible b their campaign against him and his colleagues.
 The Congressional Union, ever since the fail campaign policy was an nounced. has stated distinctly that the campaign was not against individuals, but against the democratic party na- tionally because of it's record through out the 63rd congress of opposition to. woman suffrage. The policy of the Congressional Union is based on the fact that the party in power at Wash ington-at this moment the democratic party-is responsible for the fate of the suffrage amendment just as it is con sidered responsible for action on the tariff, the currency, or the trust ques- ton. It is based on the fact that our government is a government by party that the personal opinion of the indi- vidual counts for little when in oppo sition to the party position. It recog- nizes that it will not avail simply to return to congress men who believe in woman suffrage" Thirty-four men who believed in woman suffrage have sat in the house as representatives of the equal suffrage states since April 1913 and have not been permitted to cast vote on suffrage. Why? Because the democratic leaders in the house smothered the suffrage amendment in committee.
 The democratic party in the 63rd congress has made record of very decided unfriendliness toward the suf- frage amendment. It has made this record through the action of it's leader, the president, in seven times refusing aid to deputations of suffragists, through the action of the democratic
 leaders in the senate in charge of the measure in bringing it to vote at moment when it's defeat, as they them
 selves admitted, was certain, and
 through the failure of the democratic party in the senate to put the party machinery back of the amendment; and finally in the house through its con- trol of the rules committee in pre- venting the creation Of a suffrage con- mittee and in refusing to allow the suffrage amendments even to be dis cussed on the floor of the house. More over, the party very frankly went on record against suffrage when it eau cussed against even allowing a suffrage committee to be created and has gone | on record as saying that suffrage was not even a matter for national con | sideration.
 The Congressional Union has ex- | plained this to the democratic con- gressmen and it has been pointed out to them that they have accepted all of | this hostility to suffrage on the part | of their party without making any re- monstrance and that it was not until
 they saw suffragists beginning to | threaten to defeat members of their
 party that they became aroused on the suffrage question and began to give l evidence of interest in it.
 The Congressional Union has furth- ermore pointed out that suffragists
 have no more of a grievance against the democratic party than the repub- | iican party but that they intend to op- , pose any party in power that uses such