The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-07
SUFFRAGE VOTE
WILL AFFECT
POLITICS FOR YEARS
Southern Senators Were
Afraid the Negro Women
Would Vote
COLLEGES NOW ON
A WAR BASIS
Serious Charges Against
an American Consul

(From Washington Correspondent |
Washington, Oct. 5-Political cam
paigns fol several years to come
where affected more OF less directly |
by the rejection by the Senate this
week of the Woman Suffrage amend
ment, even after President Wilson
appealed to the American "House of
Lords" to submit the constitutional
amendment to the states for ratifica-
ton as d war measure.
The direct appeal by the President,
the more spectacular because it was
unprecedented for a President to
urge one House of Congress to pass
any particular measure, and the more
annoying to the anti-suffragists in
that the President of the United
States has no function to perform on
resolutions amending the constitu-
ton, will probably have the effect of
preventing any of the suffrage work
ers campaigning against candidates
for the House and Senate merely be-
cause they are Democrats.
The democrats were particularly
fearful that the women would con-
centrate against Senator Henderson
in Nevada, who is being opposed by
republican. Representative Rob-
erts, who is personally very popular
The wcman's party element was
insisting up to the time that the
President went before the Senate
that he was responsible and he
could force the amendment through
if he wished. This element is not
only stronger in Nevada than pro-
badly in any other state, but one OF
the prominent women Of the organi-
zation is candidate for u S. Sena-
tor on al independent ticket So
that any campaigning by them
directed particularly against the
democratic party might easily have
the effect Of electing Roberts.
The national Importance of the
election in Nevada, one of the small
est states in the Union in population,
is that from present prospect it is
not Impossible that the control Of
the Senate may be so close that a
Democratic Senator from Nevada
would result in the democrats con-
trolling the organization and all the
committees of the Senate for the
next two years, while a republican
senator might give the republicans
that important measure of patron
age and power.
Only two senators from states in
which women vote voted against the
amendment, Senator Wadsworth of
New York and Borah of Idaho. Of
these, Borah alone comes upsfor re-
election this time, and the women say
they are putting up hot fight
against him. However, his position
against the Federal amendment has
been consistently held, and yet in the
recent primaries in Idaho, in which
women, of course, voted, he was no.
minated by popular vote of about
three to one.
There are not many senators
among these who voted to kill the
amendment who come from doubtful
states. Of these Senator Salisbury
Presidwel.t pro tenn of the senate, is
perhaps the most prominent He
faces a bitter fight in Delaware this
time, and the women are hoping tc
beat him.
Woman suffrage was defeated be-
cause of the intense objection on the
part of senators from southern states
to permitting negro women to vote
and thus complicating the race pro
blem
The educational institutions of the
country will be turned, in a few days
into a part of the country's war pre-
paratory machine. Between half ant
three-quarters of a million young
men below twenty will be inductet
into the amy, and then will be as
signed to the colleges, where they will
undergo military training and sleel
in barracks for about three months
After that, most of them will be as
signed to officers training camps, O
to technical schools or camps, if the,
have not displayed talents aloni
those lines, to a cantonment fo
training as enlisted men. Thei
places at the colleges will be take
by fresh crop. Thus it is intende
to give all of the boys three month
PC1IOO vi u etC SOllCSS.
The training period of West Point
the military academy, which from tn
foundation of the country has sup
piled the majority of the army off
GERS, has been gradually pruned fror
four years, the original course, unit
this week it was announced it woul
be one year for each class from no.
until the end of the war.
Old West Pointers are bemoanin
that this will sweep out of existenc
all the traditions and class institr
tions of the old school. Graduate
of other universities and colleges al
no less perturbed about their aim
matters.
The war department, in taking owe
collusion with Germans so far file