The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-10-12
SUFERAG|STS CERTAIN
OF DEMOCRATS HELP
Leaders Resent Efforts to Turn
the Cause Into an Adjunct
Of Republican Party.
WON OVER BY PRESIDENT
n Have Come Here to Fight WITH
You," He Tells Them-"Wilson
Voted for Suffrage; Has
Huahes?" Asked ons.

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
in an interview by Nixola Greeley.
Smith. nationally prominent as a
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-S Smith,
"that II 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 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 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
Union sent speakers to Oregon to tell
US to vote against all Democrats we
laughed 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 wom-
en- all through their fifteen years
fight.
Il agree with every word that Mrs.
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs.
Graham. "The conditions in my State
are the same as In Oregon. except that
we have had the vote for twenty years,
and 1t was given to US without our
having to fight for 1t. The Congress
sional Union has speakers in Idahc
now urging US to slaughter the Demo-
Gratis and free our sisters in the East.
How silly that is! Are women in the
Fast so foolish as to be led away by
the mere declaration of a 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 ha.
done everything consistent with a be.
lief In State rights, one Of the funda.
mental principles Of Democracy. SUI.
frage can never win as a partisan is.
sue. Alternate the Democrats en- masse
and you have killed every chance SUI.
fraoe has"
Won by Wilson's Speech.
1t is admitted by practically all suf
fragists that their cause has been
helped greatly by the speech President
Wilson made before the convention of
the National Woman's Suffrage Associ-
alton at Atlantic City recently, on Sent.
Sth. When the President told them
! lie had "come here to fight with Won"
I, the 1000 suffragists gath cred in Nixon's
Theatre arose and ch.ered him en-.
Enthusiastically.
This pledge by the President led