Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-03
NOT PLAYING GOOD POLITICS

So far as the women's party is concerned the issues
are made up Mr.. Hughes goes beyond his party plat
form and tells the he is in favor OF national sui
frage He saws he favors submitting the matter in the
shape of constitutional amendment instead OF sucking
by his party platform which favors equal suffrage but
SAYS is matter that should be left to the states to SET
tie for themselves.
President Wilson on the other hand stands by his guns
and the party platform which is practically the same as
that of the republicans He favors suffrage but beeve
it matter which each state should settle Tor ltse IL
is not entirely sided question: and the women nave
some strong arguments Why if part of the states have
equal suffrage all should have it, The strongest OF these
is the fact that woman living in state Where equal
suffrage the law is dsranchlsed when she moves INTO
state where are not permitted to vote inns Is
pretty tough and would make the average male voter,
even though he does not go to the polls once IN dozen
years. swear he being i'll treated and make the desire
TO vote mania with him. AS matter OF TACT the women
beng denied the right to vote is the thing that makes
them most desire the privilege Half the male voters
have to be almost forced to to the polls not consider
ing the privilege OF voting as OF any especal Vaue pul
that is because they have it.
Iavnp aside the rights and wrongs OF the question: II
is evident on the face of things that the women are tax
ING the right course to lose all chance OF gaming their
ends-the making of equal suffrage NATIONALITY thelf
course in this election.
IF hey carry out their declared intentions OF throwing
their vote and influence to one party and 1t matters not
which, they certain to lose whatever chance they
might otherwise have of winning the voting privilege
IF It is possible to get the solid vote of women for any
ISSUE then they become danger to the SYSTEM OF gov
ernment.
If the womens party can unite to accomplish equal
suffrage they unite any other issue Inc result
would be that instead of being government OF major
tiles depending on beliefs to political matters it would
become a government ruled by women aone for with
their vote made solid they would at all times carry the
balance of power and could and would control absolutely
the politics of the country-uness the men should drop
their old parties and form Mems party
In order to wn if the question is submitted as con-
sttutonal amendment they must carry two-thirds OF
the states Realizing the danger lurking in solid wo-
mems party those states not yet granting equal suffrage
will hesitate long before they do
1t is not probable the suffSagetteS can deliver the
goods that the women be controlled any more than
can the men, and the movement will fail on this account
though it will undoubtedly have some effect However,
should they wn and succeed in ousng President Wilson,
they will ose for the solid south against the movement
from conditions; that is the enfranchsng of the negro
women vote.
On the other hand should they throw their influence to
President Wilson, they would antagonze some strongly
republican states and would lose that account The
movement as it stands at present is to obtain by
force at once what they are rather rapidly obtaining by
peaceful methods
the same time is evident that in states the ques
ton has elements that do not exist here and that tend to
make it undesirable. The election alone can tell whether
the women deliver the goods but reasonable guess
judging them by the male voter is that they cannot and
will not The Spaniards have proverb the ladies desir
ing suffrage might profit by needing for it is weapon
peculiarly well fitted to the 1t is: "Pui per ducura
que per fuerca'-Nore by sweetness than by force