The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-07-18
WANT BORAH'S VOTE
NATIONAL SUFFRAGE
National Suffrage
Organization Is
Active.
REPRESENTATIVE HERE
Only One Vote Required to
Insure Passage of Amend
ment in Senate.
REPRESENTATIVE HERE

tSS Margaret Whittemore, ma
MI tional organizer of the Ma
tional Woman's party ot
Washington. ID. c., arrived in
the city Tuesday evening and will re-
main here for several days for the
purpose of interesting the women of
Shoshone county in the efforts being
made to induce Senator Borah TO vote
for the national suffrage amendment
to the constitution, which has now
passed the house and will soon come
to vote in the senate In reply to
a recent letter from s. ID. TAYLOR,
chairman of the republican state
committee, Senator Borah stated that
he could not vote for the amendment
because it was his conviction that the
question of suffrage was one which
should be decided by the states, and
he gave various other reasons why he
regarded it unwise to adopt the ma
tional suffrage amendment. 1t ap-
needed to insure the passage of the
amendment in the senate, and the
suffrage batteries have therefore been
concentrated upon the Idaho senator
as the most likely prospect to secure
that much desired vote, in view of the
fact that he represents a suffrage
state.
What Miss Whittemore Says.
Miss Whittemore has for several
years been prominent in the national
campaign for votes for women, and
she has been sent to the northwest
by the national organization to rally
the women Of Idaho and other north
western states to use their Influence
by personal appeal to Senator Borah
to vote for the amendment In dis
eussing the situation Miss White
more said
"The passage of the national suf-
| frage amendment to the United States
constitution has become imperative as
war measure, according to the ten
women who are at the head of ma
tional war service in Washington. The
amendment has passed the house and
is now pending before the senate re-
quiring only one vote to secure its
passage. Senator Borah is opposed
to the amendment
every effort is being exerted to Sc
nationally and in Idaho.
"He stands alone from the west in
his opposition. The republican party
at it's national executive convention
in st. Louis in February endorsed the
passage of the amendment; the re-
publican party of Idaho through its
chairman, S. D. Taylor, officially ask
ed Borah to vote yes the republican
national suffrage plank in it's plat
form. Will Fl. Hays, national repub-
llcan chairman is most earnestly urg-
ing the senator to take favorable ac-
tion. Four fifths of the republican
party in the senate are already pledg-
ed to the support of this measure.
I'VE feel sure that with continued
pressure from his own constituents
that he will give us the necessary
vote to insure it's success.
"The federal amendment to the con-
stitution giving American women a
voice in their own government Is the
shortest. most efficient method to es-
tablish that democracy at, home for
which we are fighting abroad.
American women are asking the
government to equip them at this
time with all possible power, that the
big tasks confronting them may be
done with all power available
"The constitution provides for its
own amending and it is therefore con-
stitutional to pursue that method to
gain suffrage for the women Of the
nation. This provision is agreed to
by each state on entering the union
and being so accepted by each state
does not intrude on state rights.
Senator Borah has said that this
would complicate the negro problem
in the south. The United States
census shows us 6,3O7S37 more white
women in the fifteen southern states
than there are negro women; 2,017,2S6
more white women than there are
negro men and women together
"The federal amendment forbids the
disfranchisement of women solely on
the ground that she is woman.
State qualification of voters will apply
equally to men or women, and where
a woman measures up to the stand
ards required of man she shall not
be disfranchised because she is a
woman"