Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-09-29
SuFFRAGISTS CERTAIN
OF DEMOCRATS HELP
Leaders Resent Efforts to Have
Them Support Hughes.
WON BY WILSON'S SPEECH.

y. 1aNo OonS neTo 10 TI9Ht WIN
You,' He Tells National Convention.
"WiIson Voted For Suffrage; Has
HughesT Mrs. Graham Of Idaho
Asks.
Western women who have had the
ballot equally with the men for several
years resent the interference Of one OF
the factions Of suffragists and the at
tempt to turn the suffrage cause into
an adjunct Of the Republican party.
They believe they know how to vote,
| and they refuse to turn against the
Democrats, who have done so much for
their cause in their respective states.
This attitude is brought out clearly
in an interview by Nixola Greeley
Smith. nationally prominent as writer
on the staff of the New York World,
with Mrs. Alexander Thompson, Dem
ocratic national committeeman from
Oregon, and Mrs. Theresa NJ. Graham
Of Occur d'Alene. Ida.
Zone would think" observed Mrs.
Thompson to Miss Greeley-Smith, that
If any instruction in suffrage matters
had to be given it would come from
the women who have won The vote
and do vote rather than from suffra
gists in the east, who are still disfran-
chiSed. am a young woman, but l
have been through three campaigns for
the vote in Oregon. In the final cam
paign we won through the co-opera-
ton and help and belief in Us Of the
men Of Oregon.
Aided by Democrats.
1--WE have been voting only FIVE
years, and we are still grateful to our
men. So when the Congressional I'm.
to vote against all Democrats we laugh
ed at them. Why. at the last election
they campaigned against George E.
Chamberlain, who introduced the first
suffrage bill in Oregon and who had
been the friend of the women all
through their fifteen years fight"
II agree with every word that Mrs
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs
Graham, proxy member of the MOTIF
cation committee from Idaho. 1.-THE
conditions in my state are the same as
in Oregon, except that we have had
the vote for twenty years, and it was
given to us without our having to fight
for it. The Congressional Union has
speakers in Idaho now urging us to
slaughter the Democrats and free our
sisters in the east How silly that is!
Are women in the east so foolish as to
be led away by the mere declaration
Of candidate, unsupported by his
party, that he's personally in favor Of
a federal amendment?
Woodrow Wilson voted for suffrage,
Has Charles e. Hughes ever voted for
suffrage? Wilson has done everything
consistent with a belief in state rights,
one Of the fundamental principles Of
Democracy. Suffrage can never win a.
q partisan issue. ALLEVIATE the Demo.
Gratis en- masse and you have killed ev.
cry chance suffrage has,"
Won by Wilson's Speech.
1t is admitted by suffragists that
their cause has been helped greatly by
the speech President Wilson made be.
fore the convention of the National
Woman Suffrage association at Allan.
tic City on Sept. 8. When the presi.
dent told them he had come here to
! fight with you" the 1000 suffragists
checred him enthusiastically.
This pledge by the president led Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait. president Of the
association. to say:
hn0 rtc
our fealty when you said you had
come here to fight with u.s."
1.-THE astonishing thing about this
movement" said President Wilson, lis
not that it has gr'wn SO slowly. but
that 1t has grown so rapidly.
get little impatient sometimes about
the discussion of the channels and
methods by which II is to prevail. 1t
is going to prevail. and that it is a
very superficial and ignorant view Of
It which attributes 1t to mere social
unrest. 1t is not merely because the
women are Disconnected; it Is because
the women have seen visions Of duty.
and that is something which we not
only cannot resist, but if we lie true
AmerlcaHS we 20 not WISH u re-
| SfSt
II have felt as l sat here tonight
the wholesome contagion of the occa.
sion. Almost every other time that |
ever visited Atlantic City | came to
fight somebody. l hardly know how
to conduct myself when have not
come to fight anybody, but with some
body.
II have come to suggest. among 9TH
er things, that when the forces of ma
ture are steadily working and the tide
is rising to meet the moon you need
not be afraid that it will not come to
its flood. We feel til, tide; we rejoice
in the strengtt OF it,"