The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-05
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
UNDER WILSON
Democratic Congress Defeats 1t
Three Times and Twice
They Strange 1t.
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY FOR IT.
What Record Shows Regarding Who
Are Real Friends of Suffrage !
American Congress.

Three times during President VIII
sons administration has a Democratic
Congress defeated the proposition TO
SUBMIT an amendment TO the Consti-
tuition giving women the right to vote.
Twice more within that period both
branches of Congress refused to let
the Woman Suffrage resolution come
to a vote.
The complete responsibility of the
Democratic party for these FIVE de-
feats to the cause of Woman Suffrage
during wilson's administration is fixed
by the fact that during all this time
the Democrats had a majority in I
branches of Congress, controlled all
the machinery, had a majority on all
the committees, practically all the
c~hairmanships and controlled the Com
mittee on Rules.
The first defeat was in February and
March, 1914. The Democrats, control
ling the House by a majority OF 19O,
~caucused against Woman Suffrage Feb
ruary 3, 1914, and refused to let the
subject be brought before the House.
II was forced to a vote in the Senate
March 10, 1914. Counting those who
voted and those who were paired"
but on record, the party lineup on the
resolution was:
For Woman Suffrage: Republicans,
90; Democrats, 10.
Against Woman Suffrage: Republic
ans, IS; Democrats, 27.
The Republicans voted two to n In
favor of the resolution, the Democrats
three to two against 1t. Only four
votes for the resolution came from
south of the Mason and Dixon line.
During the summer of 1914 Demo
cratic leaders in both branches of
Congress got together" and refused to
allow the question of suffrage TO be
presented to either branch of Con-
gress.
The second open defeat the Demo
cratic administration administered TO
Woman Suffrage was January II, 1915.
when Ii came to a vote In the House,
which had a Democratic majority of
100. The vote stood 204 to 176 against
suffrage. The Democratic majority
furnished III of the 2o4 votes against
the resolution, and the Republicans
furnished only SO. During the same
session the Democratic leaders In the
Senate held a conference and refused
to let suffrage come up before the
Senate.
Early this year II found a place on
the House calendar and came to q
vote. 1t obtained the necessary votes
to pass the House solely by reason Of
Republican support. The Republicans
voted five to one In favor Of L. The
Democrats cast a majority of their
votes against 1t. The vote stood:
Democrats: For, 90; against, 103.
Republicans: For, 172; against, SO.
When 1t came up for a vote in the
Senate In September, although the
Democrats had a clear majority in the
Senate, they furnished less votes for
the resolution than did the Republican
majority, and they furnished over
TWICE AS MANY VOTES AGAINST
1T. TWENTY-ONE DEMOCRATS in
the Senate voted against Woman suf-
fraqe and defeated 1t for the third time
In less than five years, besides having
strangled it In committee or two other
occasions.
OF these twenty-one Democratic
votes nineteen were Southern. They
cannot be changed. The South is
against giving women the ballot be
cause 1t believes federal enfranchise-
ment of women will permit negro wo.
men to vote, and the South is against
recognizing the negro as a citizen OF
giving him any citizenship rights. The
South is the Democratic party. Nc
Democratic Congress can exist with
out the Solid South. No Democratic
Congress can exist which is not con
trolled by the Solid South. The Sole
South is against Woman Suffrage. i
did not listen to the Presidents per
sonal appeal, personal letters and pub
lie address in favor of Woman Suf
frage. The big thing is not that he die
make this appeal to the South, but tina
the South refused to heed his appeal
and always will upon this question be
cause 1t runs contrary to their rae,
prejudices.
The hope of Woman Suffrage is in
Republican Congress free from South
ern domination.