The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-09-25
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 70 Fight WITH
YOU" He Tells Them--"Wilson
Voted for Suffrage; Has
HuphesT 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 suffraglsts and the at
tempt TO turn the suffrage cause into
an adjunct of the Republican party.
They believe they know how tn 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 stan of the New York
World, with Mrs. Alexander Thomp-
son, Democratic National Committee
man from Oregon, and Mrs. Theresa
MI. Graham of C0eur d'Alene, Idaho
zone would think" observed Mrs
Thompson to Miss Greeley-Smith,
"that IL 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
Suffragists in the East who are still
dsfranchised. / 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 r.. Chamberlain, who introduced
the first Suffrage bill in Oregon and
who had been the friend Of the woIn-
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 it was given to us without our
having to fight for 1t. The Congress
sional Union, has speakers in Idaho
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's
personally In favor Of a Federal
amendment? Woodrow Wilson voted
for Suffrage. Has Charles E. Hughes
ever voted for Suffrage7 Wilson has
done everything consistent with a be-
lief In State rights, one Of the funda-
mental principles OF Democracy. Suf-
fraae can never win as partisan is
sue. Alternate the Democrats en- masse
and you have killed every chance Suf-
fraoe has"
Won by Wilson's Speech.
II 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-
ation at Atlantic City recently, on Sept.
sth. When the President told them
he had ''come here to fight with you
the 1000 suffragists gathered in Nixon's
Theatre arose and cheered him en-
Enthusiastically.
This pledge by the President led