Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-05

Tou," 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
gears resent the interference of one Of
The factions of sutfragists and the at
tempt to turn the suffrage cause into
an adjunct of the Republican party,
@NGey 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 a writer
y3U. the staff of the New York World,
with Mrs. Alexander Thompson, Dem
'3cratic national committeeman from
Oregon, and Mrs. Theresa NJ. Graham
IL Occur d'-Alcnc. Ida.
conc would think" observed Mrs.
Thompson to Miss Greclcy-Smith, that
il any instruction in suffrage matters
mad to be given it would come from
The women who have won the vote
and do vote rather than from sutlra-
giSts in the east, who are still disfran-
chised. | am a young woman, but /
have been through three campaigns for
she vote in Oregon. In the final cam
paign we won through the co-opera-
tioa and help and belief in Us of the
men of Oregon.
Aided by Democrats.
eve have been voting only five
years, and we are still grateful to our
men. So when the Congressional IN
ion sent speakers to Oregon to tell us
10 vote against all Democrats we laugh
sd at them. Why, at the last election
'hey campaigned against George e.
Chamberlain, who introduced the first
suffrage bill in Oregon and who had
5:seen the friend of the women all
Through their fifteen years fight"
Il agree with every word that Mrs.
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs.
Graham, proxy member OF the Motif
cation committee from Idaho. THE
conditions in my state are the same as
in Oregon, except that we have had
the vote for twenty years, and it 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 is!
Are women in the east so foolish as to
DE led away by the mere declaration
Of d candidate, unsupported by his
party, that he's personally in favor of
q federal amendment?
"Woodrow Wilson voted for SUFFRAGE.
Has Charles E. Hughes ever voted for
suffrage? Wilson has done everything
consistent with a belief in state RIGHTS,
one OF She fundamental principles of
Democracy. Suffrage can never win as
- partisan issue. ALLEVIATE the Demo-
<srats en- masse and you nave killed ev-
cry chance suffrage has"
Won by Wilson's Speech.
1T is admitted by suffragists that
'Ebeir cause has been helped greatly by
Ghe speech President Wilson made be
lore the convention of the National
Moman Suffrage association at Allan
tic City on Sept. S. When the presi-
dent told them he had come here to
1gnG with you" the 1000 suffracists
gathered in Niyon's thcater arose and
<Deered him enthusiastically.
This pledge by the president led Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of the
association, to say:
"Iou touched our hearts and won
ouE fcalty when you said YOU had
3 some here TO fight with us"
"Ihe astonishing thing about this
movement" said President Wilson. lis
noe that it has grown 50 slowly. but
shat it has grown so rapidly. Z $ j.
4 get a little impatient sometimes about
the discussion Of the channels and
tncthods by which it is to prevail. 1t
5E going to prevail, and that it is a
very superficial and ignorant view Of
It. which attributes it to mere social
IDrest. 1t is not merely because the
women are discontented; it is because
Che women have seen visions of duty,
and that is something which we not
a1ly cannot resist, but if we be true
.Alnericans We do not wish to re-
sslSt. $ Il Il
4 have felt as ! sat here tonight
TIE wholesome cOntagion of the occa-
sion. Almost every other time that |
ever visited Atlantic City l came to
sight somebody. I hardly know how
80 conduct myself when | have not
seone to fight anybody, but with some
@Gtody.
Il have come to suggest. among 9TH
,ea. things, that when the forces of ma
cure are steadily working and the tide
rs rising to meet the moon you need
gnae be afraid that it will not come to
4y 'dood. We feel tho tide; we rejoice
IN the strength OF it,"
Both Departed.
You don't often see all old fash
Ses,ed whittier nowadays"
M Tlle tyne Is drinn OUT. a1.S