The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-17
DEMOCRATS CON-
 PLETE PLATFORM
Party Platform Includes Wilson Plank on Americanism With out Amendment, Also Con tains Suffrage Plank.

St. Louis, June 16.-The Demo cratic National convention finished its work today by adopting the party platform exactly as approved by Pres ldent Wilson and submitted by the resolutions committee, including the blanks on Americanism and woman suffrage, but not until the harmony of the last three days had been rip pied by row over suffrage
 For a time it looked as if the suf- frage plank had been lost, but after Senator Walsh of Montana had told the convention that President Will son himself considered it vital to par ty success, it was voted into the plat form by a ballot of 8S8 1-2 to 1S1 1-2. The whole platform was then adopted without roll call. As it went into the platform the suffrage plank stands.
 We favor the extension of the franchise to the women of this coun- try state by state on the same terms as to the men," The suffrage lead CTS considered it a much more favor able declaration than they got at Chi cago. They threw all their forces be- hind it and won the support of the administration leaders who were found fighting for them when danger threatened.
 Haggard and worn from an all night session the platform makers were not ready with their report until afternoon, when Senator Stone, sleep less for more than thirty hours, took the speakers stand, found that ne was too tired to read the document and gave his task to Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator Hollis of New Hampshire. They spelled" each other reading the long declara- tion.
 The fight on the suffrage plank was in the air. Everybody was key ed to it and when at the conclusion of the reading, Martin Lomasney of Boston, a delegate, claimed the atten- tion of the chair, it was thought ke was opening the fight, and it was sev- eral minutes before the noise could be stifed sufficiently to hear that he wanted to put the convention on re- cord as sympathizing with the people of Ireland
 The real fight broke immediately after, however, when Governor Fer guson of Texas, who headed the min ority report. was given thirty min utes in which to present it. The minority plank was this: "The Dem ocratic party has always stood for the sovereignty of the several states
 n control and regulation of elections We affirm the historic position of our party in this regard and favor the continuance of that wise provision of the federal constitution which vests in the several states the power to prescribe tLe qualifications of their electors"
 With Governor Ferguson, it was signed by former Representative Bartlett of Georgia, James R. Jug ent of New Jersey and Stephen D. Fleming of Fort Wayne, Ind. The burden of Governor Ferguson's ar gument was that suffrage being pure ly a states right question the word ing of the majority plank was pre- recommendation to the state on how to conduct their cleo torate. Anti-suffrage delegates on the floor piled the governor with questions which brought out in the answers argument against the admin istration plank and when Governor Ferguson had finished the convention was in confusion.
 When Senator Stone took the speakers place to defend the plank he was bombarded with a running fire of questions and arguments on the floor which eventually exhausted the time allowed to him without permit ting him to speak. Anti-suffrage delegates loudly challenged his refer ences to Ferguson's statement as That's not what he said," and that's not fair"
 Many delegates took the position that the question was becoming much confused. Finally Senator Stone yielded to Senator Pittman of Ne