Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-07
A CHANCE FOR SUFFRAGE
|. MEN SIDE WITH WOMEN
Three Cabinet Members Now Com
mitted to Equal Suffrage.
TUMULTY WILL VOTE FOR 1T.
Declaration BY Members Of the Officia
Family Give Rise to Belief President
Wilson Fayors IL.

Close on the heels OF the announce
ments of Secretary of War Garrison
and Secretary to the President Tumulty
that they would vote for woman suf-
frage in the New Jersey State election
there came Monday at Washington for
NAL statements from Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo and Secretary of
Commerce Recfeld, two other mem
bars OF President wilson's Official fam
lly. that their votes will he for woman
suffrage in the coming New York state
election.
New York and New Jersey will vote
upon equal Iflrage amendments TO the
State Constitution in November. Pres
ident Wilson has stated that he will &C
20 New Jersey TO vote on the amend
nent proposed in that State, and from.
thA way members of his Official family
arc lining up fer woman suffrage pre-
cages. many persons believe. that the
President will vote in favor of giving
the ballot to the women.
The President has made no announce
i1ent Of mis- intention, but il is Under
stood he will do so shortly before he
goes home to vote. Secretary of State
Lansing was asked whether he intend
ed TO support the equal suffrage amend
neut IN New York in the November
election. He replied that he had not
made up his mind, but the belief is
strong that he WI cast els ballot in
favor of giving woman the right Of suf-
frage. Secretary McAdoo left Wash
ington on Monday to register for the
election in New York on November 2
In respones to inquiries as to how he
intended to vote on the woman suffrage
amendment TO the New York State Con-
stitution, he gave out the following
statement:
81 shall vote for the woman suffrage
amendment to the New York State Con-
stitution Women are an economic
factor of constantly increasing if1pcrt-
snce in organized society. In business
and Industrial life they have been fore
ed to play a larger and more CON
spicucus part than ever before in the
world 5 history. They have met these
new demands end responsibilities with
cut impairment of their higher and par
amount duties to society.
Il am sure that all the theoretical
objections against their exercise of the
right of suffrage will prove groundless,
4s were the earlier objections of the
same sort tc tEeir larger participation
in the business and industrial life of
the nation. The right to vote may, and
hope will, strengthen the power of
women to assist in bringing about
many social and moral reforms in
which they are equally. if not more vi
tally, Interested than men. Suffrage
may give them the opportunity of con-
tributing notably 20 the progress of civ
and the advancement of the
general welfare Certainly as the
weaker sex, women are entitled to at
least an equal opportunity with the
stronger sex, and especially in all that
concerns the welfare of both
THE American women have made a
game fight and fair fight for suffrage,
and are entitled to WIN. They have ap-
pealed to the reason and intelligence of
the country and have not adopted mil
itant methods. They have also taken
the right course in resorting to each
state Tor action upon question which
is peculiarly within the province of the
states themselves"
Secretary Redfield,in statement to
the Baltimore Sun, said:
II am in favor of the New York
The more anti-suffrage ar
guments / have read and hear, the
stronger become for equal suffrage"
The position taken by the high officials
in the Wilson administration is that
woman suffrage is a state issue and not
a national issue, and that the states
themselves must settle the question
President Wilson some time ago told
delegation of suffrage leaders that he
regarded the issue as a state question
and not a Congressional one.