Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-17
Sufragette Plank Gains Par tial Success, Being Recom- mended To Various States For Passage
 STARTS ONLY ROW
 OF CONVENTION Southerners Declare States Rights Are Invaded, But Votes Squelch Them. Ire land Talk Howled Down
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ST. LOUIS. 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 blanks .on Americanism and fa- voring woman suffrage. but not until the harmony of it's three days ses- sion had been rippled with row over the suffrage plank
 No voice was raised against the vigorous declarations of the Ameri- canism plank. At one time it looked as if The suffrage plank had been lost, but after Senator Walsh of Mon- tana had told the convention that President Wilson himself considered it vital to party success it was voted into the platform by ballot of Sssis to 1S1is
 The whole platform then was adopt ed without roll call.
 As it went into the platform the suffrage plank stands:
 Urged on States.
 sWe favor the extension of the franchise to the women of this coun- try state by state. on the same terms as 10 the men,
 The women suffrage leaders con sidered it much more favorable dec Iaration than they got from the Re publican convention at Chicago; they threw all their force behind 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 un- til after noon when Senator Stone. sleepless for more than 90 hours. took the speakers stand and assert ing that he was too tired to read the document. gave over this task to Senator Walsh of Montana and Sen ator Hollis of New Hampshire.
 Irish Talk Taboo.
 The fight on the suffrage plank was in the air. Everybody was keyed up 70 it and when Martin Lomasney, of Boston. a delegate. claimed the at tention of the chair it was thonghs :. that he was opening the fight and it was several minutes before the shouts of approval and cries of disapproval could be stilled sufficiently to hear that he wanted to put the convention on record as sympathizing with the people of Ireland"
 "Raus init him." roared Baltimore delegate and the convention han rocked with laughter.
 States Rights2
 The real fight broke immediately after. however. when Governor Fer gusOn of Texas. who headed the mi nority report against the administra- tion plank. was given thirty minutes in which to present it.
 The plank offered by the minority was this:
 The Democratic party has always stood for the sovereignty of the sev- eraI states in the control and regula ton of election.
 We reaffirm the historic position of our party in this regard and favor the continuance of that wise provision of the federation constitution which vests in the several states of the Union the power to prescribe the qualifications Of their electors"
 With Gov Ferguson il was signed bv Former Representative Bartlett of Georgia. James R. Nugent of New Jersey and Stephen R. Fleming of Fort Wayne. Indiana.
 The burden of Governor Fersuson's argument was that suffrage beirg purely a states right question. the working of the majority plank was presumptuous recommendation to the states on how to conduct their cleo torates.
 Antisuffrage delegates on the floor piled the governor with questions which brought out in the answers. fresh argu~ents against the admin istration plank and when Ferguson had finished. the convention was in confusion because every other party has done the same.
 "I ask you" he cried. ''if you're go- Continued on page thres)