Arizona republican., 1919-02-12
The Defeat of Suffrage

our lady friends will please take notice that the federal suffrage amendment was defeated largely by the votes of the senators from sunny. chvalrous south that comparatively small section of the country which for the last six years has dominated the policies of the country It always stood rock against the encroachmenis Of the suffragists il has yielded nothing 10 erosion.
 The president knew the south four years ago when he declined to advocate federal suffrage. He could drive all democratic senators and representatives to do some things but he dared exert pressure in favor of suffrage He doubtless knew that there their constituents stood behind their congressman. So the question of suffrage became of self-de- termination by the people each state for itself. Later the president advised the adoption of the amendment but he did not urge it in a that would provoke resentment or effect.
 But not less strong than the opposition of the south to suffrage was that of the New England states. where the republican senators with the ccpton of Fernald voted against the amendment which drew its strength from the middle west, the southwest and the Pacific coast states, but in that friendly region VIC find democratic against the amendment while the republican senators voted solidly for t.
 We can account for the strongholds Of opposition in tho south and the New England states The pana,on takes back some generations. 10 the be- ginning of the movement westward from the Atlantic seaboard Emigration took place along approxi- mately parallel lines The people from north of tho middle Atlantic crossed into Ohio territory and thence westward. whence the tide spread out fan shaped into the northwest and somewhat into the southwest.
 The southern emigration was a much slower movement. and force reached beyond Texas Tho great bulk of settled east of the Mis- vfs and oft tbr In it's pppearanec, the wave of emigration resembles as we sec. the Gulf Stream. starting from point on the Atlantic north Of the fortieh parallel, generally wid- rnng until 1t embraced the entire country the north to the Canadian border from a point west of Inc middle of northern New York. and sweeping with its other edge into the southwest washing what is how Oklahoma anu Texas.
 The New England states and the south below the Oho and east of the Mississippi were left in the backwash.
 We may describe this sweep Of emigration as a zone Of progressiveism It was there that people of different breeds and traditions rubbed against Another and exchanged ideas. It there that an- Euase modified, whereas in the districts Of New England and the south traditions accents were maintained It is said that in the mountains ot the south where generation after generation has grown up without admixture. what was probably the pure English of the seventeenth century is still spoken.
 It natural that progressive ideas should thrive in the progressive belt Equal suffrage had it's origin in the east. The seeds blown along the path of emigration until they found lodgment in the fertile soil of the for the farther west. the the people ntermngle. the greater the liberalism Once fairly planted in Kansas and Colorado the growth extended wherever the soil invited and thence sui frage spread north. south, and last eastward, always within the old of westward emigrat ton.