The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-01-31

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the creation OF an expert bureau with
nothing to do but to pass on the Eng
| lish of bills.
The espousing OF the cause OF this
| legislation by the senator from Okla
homa gives the authority OF definite
| legislation intention to the report
which was published in this CORE.
spondence not long ago that the Dem
ocrats might take means to prevent
in the future the Introduction into con.
| gress OF bills containing jokers. There
| probably will be NO open antagonism
| to such measure unless 1t be based
ostensibly on the ground of expense.
! Sometimes when members of con-
| gress want to nip prospective legisla.
dion and do not care to give their
real reasons, they plead economy Of
service. A bureau OF experts would
cost some money, but in the minds of
| the advocates of such a bureau the
money saved would many times re-
| place that spent for salaries for the
bureaus experts
Activities Of Suffragists.
| In the presidential campaign OF the
summer and fall of 1912, Mrs. Medill
Mccormick of Chicago, who is the
daughter of the late Mark Hanna,
| showed tina. she was re5ourceful
leader and an organizer who knew
how to make strong the foundations of
campaign. Mrs. Mccormick has
just come to Washington to make the
leadership Of the suffragist commit
tee on congressional action.
1t can be said that from what Is
known of them in the past that Mrs.
Mccormick and her companion In
Washington are good strategists.
They have made simultaneous an
nouncements that they intend to get
the congressional action necessary to
secure a suffrage amendment to the
constitution, and that, second, and
even more important from their point
Of view, they intend to undertake Wig
orous campaigns in every COMPRESSION.
al district in the United States next
fall to defeat candidates who do not
declare themselves in favor Of the
woman suffrage movement
1t may be that few southern men,
bers of congress will be influenced to
vote for the necessary amendment by
the prospects OF a woman campaign
against them In their Districts, but
there are a good many northern mem.
bers, anti-suffragists at heart, who may
think they see visions of defeat unless
they show kindness toward the cause
which is bound to come into it's own"
The suffragists have just completed
their campaign or organization.
There are generals, field officers, troop
and company commanders, and pri-
Yates In plenty In the ranks to engage
in the campaign. 1t Is a militant or.
ganization, but nothing of the English
woman's type Of militancy enters into
the plans.
Rules Committee Against Them.
The rules committee of the house,
which has under consideration the
matter Of appointing a committee on
suffrage. Is antagonistic in spirit to
the plan, and It probably VIII be in
act unless the women who are Id
charge of the campaign for this form
of recognition of their cause can move
the members out Of the frame OF mind
in which their willing souls would
sit Chairman Henry OF the rules
committee had his sensibilities much
ruffied recently by a sharp encounter
which he had with one or two Of the
aggressively inclined suffragists. This
encounter was prior to the time that
the women had formulated a definite
plan OF gentle attack" 1t is said
that Mr. Henry has been Modified
somewhat and that with his col.
leagues Of the committee he will give
patient attention to the further pleas
which are to be made to him and that
he soon mayofnd himself willing to
compromise ~ not to yield all that
Is asked.
AS soon as the nominations for rep.
resentatives in congress are made by
the different parties next spring or
summer, the proper local organizations
Of suffragists will appoint tactful but
acute committees to call upon the
nominees and to ask them how they
stand on the question of suffrage II
Is taken for granted by the women
that all candidates of the Progressive
party for congress will be in favor OF
woman suffrage. for the party is com
mitted to the cause.
Not All Progressives.
1t must be remembered, however,
that the woman suffrage movement IL
not a movement solely Of the Progress
sive party. There pc thousands OF
women who believe in suffrage who
are inclined politically 10 Democracy
or Republicanism. 1t is probable that
the Democratic candidates will be ap-
preached by women of the Democratic
faith, and that the same rule of ap-
proach will apply. In the case of Repub-
licans. A candidate of the Democratic
party may find that he is in danger
OF losing votes to a Republican antag.
onist II the latter declares for woman
suffrage while the former declares
against 1t. The women may not be
able to vote, but their influence. as
men know. always has been the case
with woman's influence, probably can
make itself felt