The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-06
EQUAL SUFFRAGISTS
 ARE BIDDING STRONG
 FOR FAVOR IN GAME
Leaders Divided Into Two Classes, Those Grown Fat on Party Management and Office-Hungry Chiefs
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

Chicago, April o.-(Special)- con-
 vention city is thronged by a remarkable
 and spectacular crowd. It is a crowd
 which has completed a pilgrimage, al-
 though those who compose it. are not pil-
 grims; rather are they spoilsmen. each
 striving to devise means whereby he
 might profit at the expense Of his neigh
 bor
 For on the one hand, there are the
 progressives attempting to force, through
 threats, the republicans to nominate
 Theodore Roosevelt, and on the other,
 there are the republicans attempting to
 beguile the progressives into new alli- ance as result of which the old party, without loss of prestige, might extract from it's flesh most irritating thorn. The spoismen are the modern money changers in the temple. They have en- tered upon the nomination of a president apparently without the patriotic fervor that such an undertaking should inspire THE SPOILSWOMAN
 And there are the females. They, too, are in the temple. They come, like those who have set the example, to acquire the object of their dream through a pro- cess of intimidation.
 The suffragettes-and they are the
 real article, not the peach-and- variety which plays at politics in the south, having failed through long win
 ter to "bullyrag" the democrats into the enactment of the Susan B. Anthony
 amendment, are organizing a woman s party for the purpose of conferring
 thefr favors on the mans party which l first knuckles.
 | The Amazons declare that they can 1 cast 100000 votes and that with their strength they will put in power the party which writes in its platform an equal suffrage plank. It is the boldest game American women have ever played again in the North sea and even should the estimate prove excessive the dam age done to the German battle cruisers will put an end to raids on England coasts. After the Doggerbank battle | the Derfflinger and Moltke were five months is dock and it is believed that 1 the German ships of this class engaged l in last weeks battle were more severe | ly damaged than the two named which were in the action in which the Butcher was sunk. The Derfflinger and her sis l ter ship, the Lutzow are believed to be l the battle cruisers which the British have included in the list of supposed l German losses. while another battle cruiser, the Seydlitz, is reported from | a neutral source to have been seen on Thursday morning badly damaged and ! being pursued by British warshlps. RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED I The result of the battle, it is also | suggested, puts an er6 to the German l ambition, which many believe they were attempting to realize last week, l of forcing way through the British | blockade for few fast cruisers which, 1 if the scheme had been successful, would have undertaken to raid allied shipping in the Atlantic. With the loss l of three. if not four, light cruisers | and damage done to others, Germany, l it is argued. now has not the ships suitable for this undertaking.
 1 Another advantage claimed from the
 outcome of the battle is that it re- lieves the pressure on the Russian | army wing in Courland to which the German fleet was giving valuable SUD- port while the sinking of nine Ger
 man destroyers and the damage to the others will make it easier for their | submarines to enter the Baltic and ! cruise there. It is already reported l from Copenhagen that German cruisers have been withdrawn from the Cour- | land coast, while German destroyers ] have not been seen for week in the
 southern Baltic