Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-10-06
.SUFfRAGISTS CERTAIN
OF DEMOCRATS HELP
Leaders Resent Efforts to Have
Them Support Hughes.
WON BY WILSON'S SPEECH.

II Have Come Here to Fight WITH
You,' He Tells National Convention.
"Wilson Voted For Suffrage; Has
Hughes" Mrs. Graham Of Idaho
Asks.
Western women who have had the
ballot equally with the men for several
years resent the interference Of one Of
the factions of suffragists and the at
tempt to turn the suffrage cause into
an adjunct of the Republican party
They believe they know how to 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 writer
on the staff OF the New York World.
with Mrs. Alexander Thompson. Dem.
ocratic natio-al committeeman from
Oregon. and Mrs. Theresa NJ. Graham
Of Occur d'Alene, Ida.
Zone would think" observed Mrs.
Thompson to Miss Greeley-Smith. that
If any instruction in suffrage matters
had to be given 1t would come from
the women who have won The vote
and do vote rather than from suffra
gists in the east. who are still disfran-
chised. | am a young woman. but l
have been through three campaigns for
the vote in Oregon. In the final cam
paign we won through the co-opera-
ton and help and belief in Us of the
men Of Oregon.
Aidto by Democrats.
1--WE have been voting only i've
years. and we are still grateful to our
men. So when the Congressional Un-
ion sent speakers to Oregon to tell us
to vote against all Democrats we laugh.
ed at them. Why. ut the last election
they campaigned against George e.
Chamberlain. who introduced the first
suffrage bill in Oregon and who had
been the friend of the women all
through their fifteen years fight"
II agree with every word that Mrs
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs
Graham. proxy member Of the Motif.
cation committee from Idaho. 1.-THE
conditions in my state are the same as
In Oregon. except that we have had
the vote for twenty years. and 1t was
given to us without our having to fight
for It. The Congressional Union has
speakers in Idaho now urging US to
slaughter the Democrats and free our
sisters in the east. How silly that isl
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
suffrage? Wilson has done everything
consistent with belief in state rights,
one Of the fundamental principles Of
Democracy. Suffrage can never win 90
q partisan issue. Alternate the Demo.
Gratis On vnasse and you have killed ~.
cry chance outrage has"
Won by Wilson's Speech.
It is admitted by sunfragists that
their cause has been helped greatly by
the speech President Wilson made be-
fore the convention of the National
Woman Suffrage association at Allan
tic City on Sept. 8. When the presi-
dent told them he had come here to
fight with you" the 1000 suffragists
gathered in Nixon's theater arose and
cheered him enthusiastically.
This pledge by the president led Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. president of the
association, to say: