New-York tribune., 1918-11-25
Women Celebrate
Suffrage Victory
In Three States
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
Calls on Men to Aid in
Senate Fight
Progress Is Described
Workers Tell How Michigan,
South Dakota and Okla
horna Were Carried
Tribune Washington Bureau

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-It Is time
for men who favor woman suffrage to
tske up the fight This is DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw's belief, expressed this
afternoon at the victory celebration at
the National American Woman Suf-
f-nrc Association headquarters over
the success Of suffrage in Oklahoma,
SCUM .4kota and Michigan.
Every new democracy springing into
being gives women equality and jus
tee said Or. Shaw "The United
States has led the world in democracy
too long for it to lag behind now. We
women have worked hard and long.
wish that every man who believes in
woman suffrage would come forth and
work as the women have done"
Dr.. Shaw told of the long years she
had worked for suffrage. The cam
paign that bore fruit in the winning Of
the vote in Michigan was started by
Susan B. Anthony in 1874 DR.. Shaw. a
college girl at that time. was converted
10 the cause, to which she has devote d
herself.
The winning Of South Dakota. Okla
homa and Michigan brings the total of
full suffrage states 10 fifteen. AS an
answer TO one who says he favors suf-
rage by state action and believes wom-
en- should be content with winning
state by state, DR.. Shaw pointed out
that our men who went to fight in
France were not content with taking
fifty yards or one trench. So, she
maintained, the women of this country
we're not content with winning sun rage
state by state.
Just as our soldiers wanted the
euemy's surrender, the suffragists want
surrender" she said. ain the early
days woman suffrage had few friends.
| remember years ago when sixteen
men in the Senate voted for the
amendment and were known afterward
as the sweet sixteen Now woman
suffrage has nothing but friends every
where except in the United States
Senate.
'Tf in the Senate it had been mat
ter Of winning only q majority, we
would have won long ago. Now for
the necessary two-thirds margin we
lack only one vote. Personally | would
Just as soon win by one vote as by
twenty"
Part of the celebration was devoted
to an appreciation of the work for
suffrage of Senator Shafroth, Of Colo
rado, who was defeated in the last
election by Mr.. Phipps: Senator sha-
froth made short address and said
that he believed the Federal amend
ment would pass before March d.
Dr. Caroline Bartlett Crane, of Michi-
gan, described the last campaign in
Michigan and outlined some Of the
work that the women in that state ex-
pected to help put over with their new
facquired vote.
Senator Sterling sent a message ex-
pressing qualification at the passage of
the citizenship amendment by which
South Dakota enfranchised its women
and disfranchised its aliens.
at was the silent vote turned talka-
tive that put Oklahoma women across,
said Miss Marjorie Shuler, who cam
paigned in Oklahoma with her mother
Mrs. James Shuler. every one said we
could not win. But the women per-
sisted with their campaign. And when
the returns were counted there just
wasn't any silent vote. Oklahoma has
the distinction of being the first South
ern Democratic state to enfranchise its
women