The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-09-30
WOMEN MAY MAKE WAR
SENATOR FROM IDAHO
UNION BELIEv-
ED TO BE PLANNING TO oP-
POSE SENATOR RoRAH.

The Congressional Union, the mill.
tant ~suffragist organization with head
quarters at Washington, while voieing
its disapproval of Senator Borah's
stand in refusing to support the suf-
frage amendment to the constitution,
and predicting that because of his
stand he will not have the support of
the members of the union In Idaho If
he becomes a candidate for the repub-
lican presidential nomination, stops
short of openly declaring war on the
Idaho senator, though its preliminary
warning may be a %forerunner of OPP
position yet to come If the senator
looms up large In the republican race,
says a Washington correspondent.
War on All Democrats.
In the campaign last year the con.
gressional union waged war on the
democratic candidates for the senate
and house of representatives prospect
I've of their personal stand on the suf-
frage question, explaining it's course on
the ground that the democratic admin
lstration and democratic had
refused to pass the suffrage resolu-
ton. "The democrats having refused
TO do u bidding must be swept from
power" cried the congressional union.
Now Appeal to Them.
Less than a year has passed since
the election of 1914, and the congress
sional union has forgotten its cam
.paign of last year and now Is appeal
ing to both democrats and republicans
to support their resolution in order
that a suffrage amendment may be
submitted to the states for ratification
They are appealing to the men they
fought in the last campaign as well as
to all others in congress, And it was
while pursuing a general that
a delegation representing the union
appealed un~successfully to Senator
Borah to support the proposed consti-
%tutlonal amendment.
In Embarrassing Position.
The congressional union would find
itself in a most embarrassing position
next year If Senator Borah should
chance to be the republican nominee.
for on the question of a constitutional
amendment Senator Borah and Presl-
dent Wilson occupy the same ground:
each maintains that the suffrage prob
lem should be worked out by the
states rather than by attempting to
amend the federal constitution. There
Is this difference: Senator Borah is all
believer in woman suffrage ana
his stand on that issue is well known
What President Wilson'S stand would
If the issue were raised as a state
in New Jersey no one seems to
know. But both men occupy a %
non ground on the issue that Is be-
ng pressed by the congressional union
If they should be the opposing
candidates in 1916 the militant ladies
would be in a quandary.
Broadside for Senator.
1t is more than likely that in due
ime the congressional union win come
tut with a broadside directed at Sena-
or Borah and in that event an appeal
will be made to the women voters OF
state having equal suffrage to ar
themselves against the Idaho sen
tor. The union refuses to admit that
here is any foundation for Senator
contention that the suffraye
question should be settled by the states
than by a constitutional amend,
1ent; they deny that there is as much
s a possibility of defeating the Ii
mendment, c it is submitted, and Il
q their enthusiasm assert that many Il
I the southern states will hasten to Ii
atify the amendment once congress Il
asses the suffrage resolution. That /
lie resolution will get q two-thirds q
in both senate and house Ii
session the union accepts as a b
conclusion. IN
New York state gets more of the a