Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-21
The Arkansas Victory.

Arkansas has joined the procession of suffrage states. It has given wo- men what is virtually the full ballot. This is the fifth victory in the first three months of this year: North Da kota, Ohio, Indiana, Ontario, and now Arkansas, have all come into the fold. But this is more than an ordinary ! victory. It is not merely one more suffrage state, it is the first Southern state to give suffrage to women; and this fact has more than local signifi- | canoe.
 Mrs. Catt has said that what we needed was one suffrage state in the l South for suffrage to spread from one object lesson showing that the predicted dangers and disasters were all imaginary. Now we have it. She said what New England needed was one New England state for suffrage to spread from, in like manner. If Maine carries, we shall have that. In the meanwhile, three cheers for Arkansas, the sixteenth suffrage state, and the first one south of Ma son and Dixon's line!-Alice Stone ! Blackwell.
 President Wilson's telegram to the president of the Tennessee senate: | "May 1 not express my earnest hope that the senate of Tennessee will re- consider the vote by which it rejected the legislation extending the suffrage to women? Our party is so distinctly pledged to it's passage that it seems to me the moral obligation is com- plete."
 Extracts from Mir. Gurney's speech before the Maine house of represent | atives:
 "I do not believe equal suffrage will bring to the front the millennium of pure politics.. do not advocate it be- cause I believe that woman is a poli- tical vacuum cleaner, but l do insist that when you give the vote to these women you will place big bomb in the front trenches of political corrup- tion, and upon the hills of good gov- ernment you will place a, sentinel who will not sleep, and against whose for ces the immoral influences of politics will charge to their own death and de- struction." How They Do It in Illinois. According to The Chicago Herald, the women's influence in politics has been of great public benefit. They have gone at their work systemati- cally and energetically. They met in convention and proclaimed platform of public duty, not only in relation to their own interests in politics, but en- bracing the whole scope of govern mental obligation to the people.-Wo- mans Journal. Arkansas First Southern State.
 At big suffrage mass meeting, March. 6, Governor Brough of Ark ansas signed the bill which gives the women of that state the right to vote at all primaries. As the primary vote is practically equivalent to an elec-
 tion, this Arkansas right is almost full suffrage for women. For chiv- airy, true democracy and modern po- | litical progress Arkansas is now far ahead of every other southern state.
 While it's women may not be more
 intelligent or able, the men of the
 state certainly excel in honcring and
 trusting womanhood. Arkansas wo-
 men are now on a par with women of
 California, Illinois, Oregon, Kansas
 and other influential states which rec
 ognize women's right to a ballot as
 we'll as her duty to pay taxes, Ark ansaS has set the pace for the south. l-Southern States Woman Suffrage
 Press Bulletin.
 1 Maine for Submission. J North and south the votes for wo-
 men cause is spreading. Maine wo-