The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-03
By ANNIE G. FORFEIT.

The objection is being brought against the tour of the Suffragists, which is to start on the Prison Special or Democracy Limited" on Feb. g, that it has been delayed too long. People are saying that if it had been carried through earlier it might have resulted in winning the votes which are still needed to put the amendment through the Senate, but that it is now too late for the present session, and therefore useless.
 As a matter of fact the tour was planned for last October. It would have been carried through before the elections in November, and if carried through then it is very probable that 1t would have been more effective and the amendment might now have been passed and ratified by the state legis- latures. But the influenza epidemic intervened. In very many states it was impossible to hold public meet ings, and the tour was quite utterly impracticable. The National Woman s Party was obliged to postpone the en- terprfse, and it is therefore not the fault of the National Woman's Party leaders that it has been delayed so long.
 After the election was over, it looked at first as if enough votes could be counted upon without the trouble of this long tour. If Senator Moses vote could have been one, there would have been a safe ma jority-two-thirds majority-for the amendment. And the condition laid down at first by Senator Moses seem ed to promise so well that the Ma 1 tional Woman's Party thought it bet | ter to take up the challenge of the Senator and to throw their strength l into the campaign in New Hampshire | for signatures of the majority of the members of both Houses of the New 1 Hampshire legislature to the petition asking Senator Moses to vote in favor | of the amendment. Then when the Senator refused to accept the petition | and laid down the further condition l that there must be a vote of the legis- lature, the Suffragi again took uI | the dare, and went to work to push
 the resolution through as soon as the
 legislature came into session.
 Everyone now knows the result ot | their work. They won in the large | lower House by a majority of "A anG | failed In the Senate through the di.
 rect and persistent efforts of Senator
 Moses to persuade the Senators who
 had already signed the petition to gc
 back on their word. The Senator die not play fair" and his lack of fail play has marked him down in thu
 estimation of the women as ma1 who cannot be trusted.
 It was after this disappointment
 with Senator Moses, that the Nationa Woman's Party turned again to tn,
 project abandoned last fall It ii
 late in the lifetime of the Sixty-fiftf i Congress, but there is still time fol 1 the Senate to take & vote on the amendment. The tour will not bt
 over until the last day of the session
 and the women refuse to give up al
 hope of action by the Senate until tht
 SIxty-fifth Congress is actually nt
 more. The day after it's demise, i
 by that time it has not passed thu | Federal Suffrage amendment, it vii be fully time for the Suffragtsts to be gin work on the sixty sixth Congress
 and they will be the more ready t
 do this as there are already rumor
 of an extra session, which will giv