The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-06
SUFFRAG|STS CERTAIN
OF DEMOCRATS HELP
Leaders Resent Efforts to Turn
the Cause Into an Adjunct
of Republican Party.
WON OVER By PRESIDENT
~ Have Come Here TO Fight WITH
YOU" He Tells Then-"Wilson
Voted for Suffrage; Has
Hughes?" Asked One.


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
without being told by women who
| never had the 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
I'm an interview by Nixola Greeley
Smith. nationally prominent as
writer on the staff OF the New York
World, with Mrs Alexander ThOmp-
son. Democratic National Committee
man from Oregon, and Mrs. Theresa
NJ. Graham OF Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
zone would think" observed Mrs.
Thompson TO Miss Greeley Smith,
THAT if any instruction in suffrage
matters had TO be given 1t would come
from the women who have won the
vote and do vote rather than from
Suffragists in the East who are still
DISTINGUISHED. / am a young woman,
but / have been through three cam
paigns for the vote In Oregon. In the
final campaign we won through the
cooperation and help and belief I'm 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
Union sent speakers to Oregon 10 tell
us to vote against all Democrats we
laughed at them. Why, at the last
election they campaigned against
George f. Chamberlain, who introduced
the first Suffrage bill IN Oregon and
who had been the friend OF the WON
en- all through their fifteen years
fight.
II agree with every word that Mrs
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs
Graham. 1.-The conditions In my State
, are the same as In Oregon, except that
we have had the vote for twenty years
, and IL was given to us without our
having TO fight for it. The Congress
, siOnal Union has speakers in Idaho
l now urging us to slaughter the Demo
Gratis 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 a candidate
. unsupported by his party, that he.
!, personally In favor OF Fedora
a amendment? Woodrow Wilson voteC
for Suffrage. Has Charles e. Huuhe'
o ever voted for suffraoe7 Wilson ha'
9 done everything consistent with be
!. lief In State rights, one Of the funda
3 mental principles Of Democracy. SUI
fraoe can never win as partisan Is
: sue Alternate the Democrats en- mass
and you have killed every chance SUI
b fraee has"
IS Won by Wilson'S Speech.
:. Ii is admitted by practically all SUI
J, fragistS that their cause has bees
y helped greatly by the speech Presiden
4. Wilson made before the convention q
!. The National Woman's Suffrage Assoc
alton mt Atlantic City recently on Sept
Sth. When the President told theT
no had "come here 10 fight with you
he 1000 sudragists gathered in Nixon
Theatre arose and cheered him er
enthusiastically.
n This pledge by the President le
~ Yrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, presider
IL the association, TO say:
:. You touched our hearts and wo
our fealty when you said you ha
come here 10 fight with us
THE astonishing thing about IN
movement" said President Wilson.
rot that it has grown so slowly. b'
IN that il has grown so rapidly.
lily get little impatient sometim
ga about the discussion OF the channe
'ha and methods By which 1t is to prevn
ne. 1t is going 10 prevail. and that Is
/, very superficial and ignorant view
ICE il which attributes 1t To mere sOci
ore unrest. Ii is not merely because {
me women are discontented. il is becau
ner the women have seen visions of du
aud that is something which We L
Nh only cannot resist, but. if we be II
nv Americans, We do not wish
age resist
ell, Il have felt as sat here tonight
NY. wholesome contagion of the occasi'
ush Almost every other time that ! eN
az, visited Atlantic City / came Ia t.
IL somebody. hardly know how 10 c.
wo. duet myself when ! have not come
ark fight somebody. but with somebody
Il have come 10 suggest. amc
iles o,ber things that when the forces
ure, - Or steadily working and
tide is rising IT. meet the moon,
need not be afraid that IL will
corae 10 it's Hood. We feel the Il,
IN we rejoice in the strength of H.