Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-07-22
Senator Thomas On
Congressional Union
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dar. When the National Suffrage as
ISOLATION desires this amendment act
ed upon, l shall move its considera-
ton. | have so informed Mrs. Gait"
This correspondence, Mr.. Presi-
dent, discloses that the association,
a member of which yesterday inter-
rupted the president of the United
States on the occasion mentioned, is
not itself willing that the senate take
any action upon the amendment, and
il is, to put it mildly, somewhat in
consistent that an association should
request the postpOnenent of the
measure and at the same time some
Of it's members should rcprOach the
president for not being more active
in its support.
Mr.. President, as stated here, and
as chairman OF the committee, | be
lieve that in view Of the enormOu
amount of important business before
the senate, and in view of the fact
that the national organization at the
present time does not feel disposed
TO have this matter considered, the
committee has been fully justified in
asking no action up to the present
time.
This statement might perhaps be
sufficient: but inasmuch as it was an
uounced at the organization Of a So
called Woman's Party, having its
birth ,contemporaneously with the
obsequies of the late lamented "bull
moose" at Chicago, that this new
party can influence and control the
sutfragcs of 100000 women OF the
suffrage states-as that announce
ment has not only frequently been
made and reiterated, but has been as
deem it entirely appropriate to de-
clare that no such body of women, i'll
my Judgment, is engaged in or iden-
tilted with or controlled by this So
called Woman's Party movement.
| think that the aggregate wOmens
vote of the suffrage states IS some
where in the neighborhood Of 4,OO0,-
600. Speaking for my own state,
know that the Democratic wOmen Of
Colorado are not identified with the
sO-called Womans Party; that they
viii not be identified with it; and
that they have no sympathy with its
aVOwed purposes and objects. The
women of my state. Ike the men OF
my state, divide on party lines. and
they will continue to do so, if I am
any Judge OF human nature or am
able TO draw any lesson from the ex-
periences of the past.
The Woman's Party is the out
growth OF the Congressional Union.
In my state that party actively op-
posed the Democratic ticket in 1914
and actively ~espOused the cause OF
the Republican party, as it proposes
to do in 1916. One of its advocates,
a very sweet-voiced little canary,
tWittered from every twig upon the
Republican tree in my commonwealth
to enthusiastic audiences, very gen
e~rOusly furnished by those who affil-
iated with the Republican organfza-
ton. IDS only effect was to arouse
the antagOnism Of the Democratic
women and to bring them to the
polls in far greater numbers than
would otherwise have been the case:
and in that respect it was a great
benefit to some of the successful can
didates, myself among the number;
but that action, Mr.. President, has
left, and very naturally so, a spirit
of antagOnism in the ranks OF Demo-
cratic women. the seeds Of which
were then sowed cry actively in the
commonwealth. and | am satisfied
that that is the case in every one OF
the states where this movement was
carried on.
In my state the Democratic ON
are SO filled with resentment toward
the past course and announced policy
OF the Congressional Union, that its
leaders visited the state executive
committee just prior to the last Dem
ocratic convention and protested
against their receiving or hearing any
delegations from that body, declar-
ing they would consider it an affront
to them if their protests were not
needed.
have no desire. Mr.. President. to
criticise any further than may be nee
essary the attitude of the Congress
sional Union, but | think it is per
fectly appropriate that I should as
sert that the control of the 100000
wo1nen voters of this country by any
organization is a wholly unwarranted
and %unfounded assumption. 1t con-
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