The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-09-28
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 10 Fight WITH
Nov." Ae Tells Them-"wllson
Voted for Suffrage; Nss
Aushes7" Asked One

ballot equally with the men FOR several
years resent the Interference ~ unr Of
The factions of ~SunraglstS and the NJ
tempt p" iurn 'he suffrage cause into
un adjunct ~ the Republican party.
They believe they know how to vote
without being told by women VII"
never had IN" vote and they refus" to
turn against the Democrats Who have
done 80 much for their cause In their
respective states.
This attitude II brought nut clearly
~ an interview 10y Nixola Greeley.
Smith nationally prominent M a
writer IN m" stan of the New York
World, with Mrs. Alexander Thopp
son. Democratic National Committee.
man from oregon. and Mrs Theresa
VI Graham ~ Occur d'Alcnc. idaho
"Ou, would thlDk.' observed Mr..
Thompson 20 Miss Greeley Smith,
that II any instruction In suffrage
matters had to he given II would come
from the women who have won the
yot, and 10 vote rather than from
Sunrncists In the East VIII" are still
disrruurhi>cd. | am II young woman,
bur | have been through three Ca'u-
pniCns for The vote In Oregon. IN The
final campaign wc won through the
cooperation and help and belief IN H.
~ the men 81 Oregon.
Aided by Democrats
W have been voting onlN nv"
years and we are still grateful To our
men So. when the Congressional
linton sent speakers 10 Oregon 10 toll
w. 10 vote against all Democrats We
laughed az them. Why. ~ the Inst
election they cnmpalgned against
Georg" f. Chamberlain. who introduced
the FIRST Suffrage bill In Oregon and
who had been the friend of rhc WON
cn all through their tftccr wears
fight.
y agree with every word thai Mrs
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs
Graham. The conditions In my stat"
are the same ms In Oregon, except thu
Ne have had the vote for twenty wears
and II IA given "a us without our
having Ia fight for Il. The Cuugr",
Sioual Union has speakers IN ldah"
now urging us 10 slaughter the Demo
Gratis and free our sisters In the E.as'
How silly that is Are women In N"
East 80 foolish rs 10 h. led away b,
the rner' declaration Of "A candidate.
unsupported by his party, that he's
personally In favor of Il Federal
amendment Woodrow Wilson voted
For Surrh -. Nss Charles E. Hughes
ever voted for Suffrage? Wilson has
done everything consistent with a be.
lief In State rights, one Of the funds.
mental principles Of Democracy. SUI.
frsse can never win az a partisan Is.
sue. ALLEVIATE the Democrats en- masse
n you have killed every chance SUI.
TRACE has"
Won by Wilson'S Speech.
II Is admitted 10y practically all SUI
'~r6giStS that their cauSc has beer
helped greatly by the speech Presldrn'
Wilson mad" hefor" m" convention Of
"a" National Woman's Suffrage AsSoci
alton A. Atlantic city recently. on Sept
>ih. When the President told them
h" had come here to fight with you
the 1900 sunraglsts gathered in Nixon's
Theatre arose and Chrrrpd him en-
Enthusiastically
This pledge 10y the President led
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
nt the association, 10 say
You touched our hearts and won
our fenlty when you said you had
com" here 10 fight With us."
tn" astonishing thing about this
movement, Snid President Wilson, us
not that II has grown 50 slowly. hut
that. II has grown = - rapidly. .
J go Il little impatient sometimes
about m" discussion OF tn. channels
and methods by which II Is 10 prevail
II Is going to prevail. and that Is "A
very superficial and ignorant view of
DO which attributes II 10 mere soclIl
unrest, II Is not merely because the
women are discontinued, IL Is becaus,
III" Wumcn have seen visions Of duty,
and that is something which We not
only cannot resist, but, II We be true
Americans, We do not wish 10
resist.
Il have felt as ! sat here tonight the
wholesome c%ontngion ~ the occasion.
Almost every other time that I ever
visited Atlantic city | cane 20 fight
somebody. | hardly know how TO con
duct myself when | have not come o.
Fight somebody, but with somebody.
Il have come TO suggest, among
other things, that when the forces oi
nature are steadily working and IN,
tide ~ rising Ia meet the moon, you
need not he afraid that II viii no,
come 10 It's flood, We Feel the tide;
We rejoice In the strength Of H."