Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-17

St. Louis, Mo. June 16.-The demo- cratic national convention finished it's work today by adopting the party platform exactly as approved by President Wilson and submitted by the resolutions committee, including the plank on Americanism and that favor ing woman suffrage, but not until the harmony of it's three days session had been disturbed with a row over the suffrage plank.
 No Voice Against Amerieanisn Plank. No voice was raised against the viz orous declarations of the Americanism plank, but at one time it looked as if the suffrage plank had been lost. Af- ter Senator Walsh of Montana had told the convention that President Wilson himself considered it vital to party success, however, it was voted into the platform by a ballot of SS8 1-2 | to 1S1 1-2. The entire platform then was adopted without roll call.
 Suffrage Plank as Adopted. As it went into the platform the suffrage plank stands:
 We favor the extension of the fran 1 chtse to the women of this country, state by state, on inc same terms as to the men"
 The women suffrage leaders consid- . cred 1t much more favorable decla- ration than they got from the repub- | ltcan convention at Chicago; they 1 threw all their force behind it and won | the support of the administration lead CTS, who were found fighting for them when danger threatened.
 Platform Makers Exhausted. | Haggard and worn from an aIl-nigh4 l session, tile platform makers were not ready with tlieir report until after for more than thirty hours, took the speakerss stand and, explaining thai | he was too tired to read the docu- ment, gave over ti1fs task to Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator Hollis 1 of New Hampshire. They 'ispelled' each other reading the long declara-
 Fight on Suffrage Plank.
 The fight on the suffrage plank wal in the air. Everybody was keyed uI to it and when at the conclusion of tho reading Of the platform Martin Lomas- ney of Boston. a delegate, claimed thf attention of the chair, 1t was though he was opening the fight, and 1t wa, several minutes before the shouts O. approval and cries of disapprova could be stilled sufficiently to hea, that hn wanted to put the convention on record as sympathizing with '+th' people of Ireland.s
 "Raus init nimi" roared BaltimOr,
 The real fight broke immediately af ter, however. when Governor Ferguson of Texas, who headed the minorit. report against the administration plank, was given thirty minutes il which to present it. The plan offere, by the minority vast
 Plan Offered by Minority. "The democratic party always E1a stood for the sovereignty of the severa states in the control and regulation o elections. We reafhrm the histori position of our party in this regar and favor the continuance of that wis provision of the federal constitution which vests in the several states Q , the union the power to prescribe tn , qualifications of their electors" Besides Governor Ferguson, the re port was signed by former Representa- tive Bartlett of Georgia, James E Nugent of New Jersey and Stephen E Fleming of Fort Wayne, Ind. |. The burden of Governor Ferguson argument was that suffrage, bein purely a states right question, tn
 wording of the majority plank was
 presumptuous recommendation to tn } states on how to conduct their cleo l torates.
 Suffrage Delegates Piled Cues
 lions.
 Anti-sufrrage delegates on the foo ) piled the governor with questions an } brought out in the answers fresh ar guments against the administratio } plank. When Ferguson had fniShe
 tn econvention was in confusion an the tone of the uproar in the dele gate section was indicative of sympa Uly with the opponents of the admins tTation plank.
 , When Senator Stone took the speak CTS place, to defend the plank, he wa
 bombarded with a running fire ( | questions and argument from dele | 1an f<a1z ,..1I
 exhausted the time allotted to hi1 without permitting him to speak te { successive minutes.
 Anti-suffrage delegates loudly chal
 lenger his reference to Ferguson
 statements with cries of 'sThat,s nc
 what he saidi" and That's not fatrl Many delegates openly took H1e posi- : tion that the question was becomin
 much confused by the manner of il presentation. Finally Senator Ston yielded to Senator Pfttman of Nevad
 one of the suffrage champions.
 Crowd Wanted to Howl PIttman Dow e The crowd wanted to howl Pittma l down, and cried nVotel Vote!" Q ~Yess l know you want to vote Q Putnam shouted at his opponent
 You'd rather do anything else tha
 hear the truth,
 Fl Are You men who are willing \ hear women denounced afraid to hear q man say something in tJleir behalf? . want to appeal to you to give yot $ sisters and daughters and mothers u
 right to vofe.s
 What's that got to do with this . ch0rused the delegates,
 Finally, ignoring lesser outbreal 2 and shouting above the din and COT 2 fusion, Pittman managed to g
 through with his speech.
 : Impassioned Speech by Senator Wal.
 Tn an inpassiened speech Senati
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