New-York tribune., 1918-09-21
Suffrage Leaders Anxious
to Have Test of Strength
in Congress
Victory Is Predicted
Workers Prepare to Assist
Liberty Loan Campaign
as Celebration
.<ne-.ol Dispatch 10 Tho Tribmc'

lSpec;oi Dispatch 10 Tho Tyi6auc)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2O.-Oflicers of
the National American Woman Suf-
irage Association are confident that
the Federal suffrage amendment will
mass when it comes TO vote on Sep
;ember 26. Even those who arc most
conservative in expressing opinions
about the success of the measure say
.ha, thev shink the time has come OF
these Mrs Maud Wood Park, chairman
If the Congressional committee, is
one. She said to-aav:
we are ready for vote in the
senate We expect The amendment to
carry.
Sufraeo headquarters cannot accom-
modate the women who have arrived
70 sec the amendment through. Among
.hose arc many women who have been
we'll known in state politics. who have
never taken much interest in the ma
.onal aspect of women's suffrage be-
lore.
Time was when the women in suf-
rage states weren't interested in
whether any other women could vote
or not said Mrs. Marie Stuart Ed
wards, president of the Indiana Suf-
irage Association. "Something has
changed tnis. Perhaps it is the war
work that women have been doing that
haS brought a sense of sex solidarity.
Anyway, in the last few months the
women Of the suffrage states have been
persistent in working for the Federal
amendment. The delay in June crys-
tallized the feeling Of all women into
a firm Intention to work to sec the
amendment through. They have never
stopped. Democratic and Republican
women alike have worked tirelessly.
Enormous pressure has been brought
to bear. a campaign of resolutions has
been carried on ever since the Senate's
failure TO pass the amendment last
June. These have come from orcani-
cations, and there has also been clever
and persistent work on the part of
some very influential Individuals
Mrs Gait Is Confident
The vote will surely be taken this
tme, said Carrie Chapman Gait,
President Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, "and no
one who has watched the progress Of
inc Senate amendment can doubt that
II will pass. 1t has advanced rapidly
since the Republican Senator'S de
Manded an carly vote, and we have
every assurance from our Republican
and Democratic friends of daily IN
cFeaslnG sentiment in favor of the
measure The demand for it from the
voting states, as presented to Presi-
dent " llson and Senators by the South
an act
Washington this week, has influenced
many Senator's"
Many New York women arc corn
mutlng' between Washington and New
York until the amendment is voted
upon. However, Mary Garrett Hay, one
O. the recently appointed members of
inc Noman's National Republican EX-
ecutlve Committee. who is also second
vice-presi9ent Of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association, is
IN Washington morning, noon and
night until the amendment is passed,
as she Is sure it viii be.
New York women are more inter
ssied in this vote than any other
women who already have suffrage, ,"
sad Miss Hey to-day, "because we had
sach hard fight ourselves. We real
lle from our own hard fight what diff
lculties some OF the women are up
ssgainst. Fortunately for the New
York womc,, the constitution OF their
state was not difficult of amendment.
and the women of New York wanted
20 see them get it. We felt that we
haa haa no right to give up until all the
o'hers had the same chance we had
And' besides, it might be affecting
some OF our own New York women
suppose New York woman's husband
saouid have to move to North Carolina
lOr business reasons. In New York
n0th husband and wife would have had
vote When they took up their resi-
uence IN North Carolina the woman
would lose her vote.