The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-11-03
women OPPOSE
PRES. WILSON

Miss Lucy Burns, one of the lead
ing women Of the country, is CAM
paigning in Montana against Presi-
dent Wilson and the national Demo-
cratic candidates because of the demo-
cratic party's unfair treatment of
women. Miss Burns is pointing out in
her addresses that President Wilson
has not only turned a deaf ear to en-
treaties from the women of the East
and South, who are politically not free
but that he has refused to answer
appeals from the voting women of the
west that justice be meted out to the
mothers of our land.
"Voting women will, at this cleo
tion," says Miss Burns, "speak to
President Wilson and his party in a
language that they can understand
If logic cannot move the party in
power, then loss of votes may"
In a statement issued by Miss Burns
from the Montana headquarters, she
scores the president for his failure to
use his influence to pass the Susan
B. Anthony amendment in the last
session of congress and urges the
Montana women to vote in a body
against him and his party to show the
Loyalty of women to women. Miss
Burns, in commenting upon the fact
that Wilson supporters ere trying to
becloud the national suffrage issued
by calling attention to his one vote in
New Jersey for the hopeless state
amendment, says:
president Wilson did vote for
suffrage in New Jersey.
"ln Congress, where the chances for
the success of woman suffrage were
good, he turned his whole party
machine against it; in New Jersey,
where defeat was sure, he cast soli-
tary vote in it's favor.
."He did this after the congressional
union had campaigned against the
democratic party in 1914 on this suf-
frage issue; and after ten thousand
men and women, gathered together at
the closing session of the Woman
Voters Convention in September, 1915
had despatched messengers to the
president to tell him that women
would put the enfranchisement of
their sex above the interest of any
national political party
"a vote for suffrage in New Jersey
helped the presidents case with wo-
men voters, and did not bring votes
sor women in the east one step nearer.
The national activities of the suf-
rage movement in every part of the
Union had pushed the president to the
'tates' rights position--that comfort
lble halting place at which profess
onal politicians are wont to declare
hat they are withheld from giving
you any help whatever by their de-
,otion to the constitution or their
passion for local self government"
"Once arrived at this point, on what
ground could the president have re-
used to vote for woman suffrage
when it came up witnln his own state? ?
"His vote for suffrage in New Jer-
ey was cold political necessity.
"1n announcing that he would sup
'ort suffrage in 1915, President Will
on gave out chilly statement, de-
'oted far more to his opposition to
uffrage in congress than his support
f it in New Jersey. He said, in part:
III intend to vote for woman suffrage
n New Jersey because believe that
he time has come to extend that
and responsibility to the
women of the state; but | shall vote
>ot AS The Leader Of My Party In
he Nation, But Only Upon Ny
'rivate Conviction AS A Citizen Of
Jew Jersey called upon by the legis-
ature of the state to express his con-
lotions at the polls
"Why should the record of Mr.. Will
on, Citizen of New Jersey be Of
cred to the voting women of the
'est? WOMEN OF MONTANA!
OTE FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE
WOMEN OF AMERICAw