Arizona republican., 1916-09-28
THE PUZZLE OF DEMOCRACYS
 ATTITUDE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE

doised and promised action of na- tiOnal suffrage, the women are get ting back of Mir. Hughes merely be i cause he alone can he elected to the office in which a supporter of sui fr9ge can give the women the action they want.
 1 Her description of her experiences ] ir the big suffrage parade, when she was constrained to control a large and salubTious Kentucky banner. was aS amusing a piece Of speaking as has beer heard here in a long time. Serious again. she told of the 1 visit of the prominent democratic women to the president, of his unc- tUous reception of them and his later utter refusal to do anything for them. They had not asked that he choke the amendment down the throats of q policy ridden congress merely that he use his influence to get the com mittee to report the bill His an- swer was that the negro question blocked the action.
 Why" she asked. should men have the vote automatically when | they reach the age of twenty-onea . 1 Why should this nation amend it's constitution to give the vote to the negro? Why should it extend the l franchise to Indians. aliens ard Fil- ipinos. and refuse it to women?"
 Miss Todd related the incident of William J Bryan and the suffrage 1 workers in Tucson, TT incident that added numoerless chuckJes to the nation wide laugh that h3s spelt the poiitlral decay If the golden tongued Neblaskan. The inconsistency of spoutins glittcring things about hu- imanltV' right of voice in government aHi justice 10 all people, and then cold- d-shoulderirg persons just because they are women, was pointed out
 MlSS iodd's remarks were well re- ceiFec, her dry humor won many a sincere laugh. and her strong arpu ni"nts convinced many of the power Tomen are to wield in the coming
 The ushers: Dorothy Palmer, Gladys Lindsay. Ruby Thompson. Edna Row CTS, Florence Randy. Ruth Rand,, Mary Goodson, Beatrice Birch Mere. dlth Bishop, Dorothy Bishop. Eunice Abbott Katherine Stearns. Isabel IF. Nlhe' jennie Hudgins, Eleanor Harring ton Ellie ERrce, Miss Centerwihte
 Mrs. c. E. Hull. Maricopa county chairman of the Woman's Party nre' sided. Mrs. Frederick A. Stafford one of the vice chairmen for the state oavt Ine address of welcome and introduced MISS f1eien Todd. On the nIatfornr were Dr. Marian Walker WiIliams Arizona member of the Advisory Com, GIL and Miss May Noble. secretary fo, Maricopa county io'
 Precedlng the meeting several nj the young women ushers rode in a dec. orated automobile, accompanied bv tb, pand from the Indian school. On th. pack or the automobile was the famou. susan B. Anthony amendment in nnr. Ple letters on yellow and white felt
 Ihls amendment banner has been ir every, county seat of Arizona. formeC the chief decoration at conference or. ganlzations, and even travelled over tb. uesert to remote places.
 After the meeting both men anf women rushed up to shake hands wifi MISS Todd and remained to join tb. Woman's Party. Many of the men anf women were democrats converted tG the Idea of placing principle above party. "ooF'
 Miss Todd and Miss Calderhead wil IeaVe tnls morning for Prescott. whert a meeting will be held tonight in tht Odd Fellows hall. Miss Vivian Pierct mas gone on ahead to arrange meetines Tn Frescott, Flagstaff and Kingman,