The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-26
Listen to the Majority,
 MT. Governor
(From The Hartford Post.)

If Governor Holcomb wants to follow the undoubted majority opinion of the state and Of the po- tttcal party to which he belongs he will call a special session of the Legislature to ratify the woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution in time so that the women may vote in the election of 1920.
 There is not the slightest reason to doubt that fact He received a petition for such a session signed by e1 per cent of the members ot the Legislature, more than two thirds. Sixty nine per cent. of the State Senators and the Lieutenant Governor of the state signed the petition, and 50 per cent of the members of the House of Repre- sentatives. A group of Republicans who are representative of the best and most progressive sentiment in the Governors own party pleaded with him to call a session. Out standing political leaders in every section of the state have formally requested it = to mention only Col onel Isaac M. Ullman, the undIs- puted Republican leader of New
 
 John T. King, equally undisputed Republican leader of Bridgeport, and Sunield. who is qualified to be State Attorney Hugh NJ. Aclorn of called a leader of progressive Re publican thought and action in Hartford county.
 In addition to this, more than 100000 women, all of voting age have signed a petition asking that they be granted the right to vote in the 1920 election. This Is a greater number of persons, men or women, or both, than ever before have peti- toned for any political right in the history of the state of Connecti- cut.
 And what arguments are offered upon the other side and by whom? The opposition Is confined to the i State Chairman of the Republican party, who objects to suffrage be- cause 1t would interfere with his business of political manipulation, i the Executive Secretary to the Gov i ernor, and group of their satellites 1 who, all told, could be enumer- ated upon the fingers of two hands, | so far as importance in political i leadership is concerned; and the anti suffrage association of the | state. The antis talked of a peti- l ton against suffrage when the Leg l islature was in session and claimed 1 10000 signatures to it, but they produced no petition and it was commonly understood that their list l of 0,000 names was several years old and included names of thos I who have died since signing - petition or have been converted to suffrage. Even admitting the valid | ity of the whole list of 10000 names, | the antis were out numbered more 1 than two to one by those who signed the suffrage petition
 If the Governor is seeking for ! the preponderannce of evidence he must find it on the side of those who have petitioned for a special session. It has been overwhelm- l ingly expressed to him in a variety | of ways. It is unfortunate that while the group of opponents is so
 small in number as to be negligible 1 in quantity. it includes those who
 seek his ear at every opportunity.
 But if the Governor listens to this, group and permits his action
 to be guided by their whispering he
 will actually give ear to the minor 1 ity and refuse consideration to the
 majority And of such a policy as that Hartford newspaper sup