The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-20
NOT DlSMAYED BY
DEFEAT In JERSEY
Predict Adoption Of Amendment
to Constitution by Necessary
Number Of States in
Near Future
BY United Press.

by United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.--Wiu Pres
ident Wilson's state vote for suffrage.
and his cabinet members declarations
IN favor of suffrage precipitate ma
tional woman suffrage victory for the
women warriors who have waged thc
battle Susan 3. Anthony started in
Washington in 1869?
The suffragists believe so.
They point to these facts:
For the first time in history presi-
dent and majority of his cabinet
Officers have declared themselves for
suffrage. Last session for the frat
time suffrage was brought to vote
in the house.
The acquisition of eleven full suf-
frage states and one with partial sur.
frage, favorable reports from commit
tees and the great demonstrations in
Washington, within the last few years.
led suffrage workers here to believe
the amendment declaring "the right
Of suffrage shall not be denied or
abridged-on account of sex" will this
year go to the states for ratification.
Returns from yesterdays election in
New Jersey showing the defeat of the
suffrage amendment by over $4,000
votes failed to dempen the enthusiasm
of the "suff" leaders They plan TO
launch another campaign in that state
at once.
January 10, 1869. Miss Anthony and
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton called in
Washington a convention of workers
to bring the amendment to the atten-
ton of congress. The capital looked
askance at the little group of women
asking for some strange thing called
"women's rights They were pictured
by cartoonists as persons who wanted
to wear trousers"
BY hard work Susan B. Anthony
secured a hearing on the proposal TO
extend the suffrage to women OF the
District of Columbia instead of takirg
it away from men. There was no fur
ther result.
The workers planned long cam
paign. With representatives secured
from nineteen states, they formed the
national woman suffrage association.
and petitioned congress. For time
they believed proper legal action
would allow the women to vote under
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments granting suffrage to negroes.
In 1872 Susan B. Anthony asked the
senate judiciary committee for such a
ruling 1t was denied. Several women
tried to vote under these two amend
ments and the case of one was taken
TO the United States supreme court,
where it was adversely decided.
Meantime. campaigns were being
conducted in number of states.
The amendment was drafted ia
1875, and was first introduced into
congress by Senator A. A. Sargent OF
California in 1878. The resolution has
been presented to every congress
since. From then until her death in
1906. Miss Anthony addressed house
and senate committees at all hearings.
Women workers for suffrage have
appeared steadily before congress be-
tween 1878 and 1914. One vote, un-
favorable, was secured in the senate.
With the addition to the electorate
of between three and four million
women voters in the west the issue
took on new life. The vote finally
reached in the senate in 1914, lacked
but eleven votes Of two-thirds ma
jority and that in the house last jan
uary but seventy-eight.
The amendment. # adopted, will be
sent to the state legislatures for rati-
fication A favorable vote by two
thirds Of the states is necessary to its
success.
There Sre nov under way four cam
paigns for suffrage. IN New York. in
New Jersey, Massachusetts and Penn