Arizona republican., 1919-05-31
The Democrats and Equal Suffrage


 For plain and senseless lying we commend the following extract from the statement of the demo- cratic national committee promulgated at Chicago on Wednesday:
 As the first national political organization
 10 record itself in favor of woman suffrage,
 and the first to welcome the women into full
 participation in party councils, we depore and
 condemn the dilatory tactics of the republican
 party in the closing hours of the last session
 of congress- which resulted in the failure of
 the suffrage resolution at q time when it's
 proponents were assured of the requisite mum
 Der of votes to accomplish it's passage.
 There is nothing in this that will deceive anybody outside of a Iunatic asylum and under the suffrage laws of most states inmates institutions vote Throughout the sxty-ffth, the sixty fourth and the sixty third congresses the republican majority favored the federal amendment. President Wilson refused to recommend it's adoption. A great majority of the southern senators and representatives were against it. Though the president afterward sented it's adoption and in his cabled message urged it's adoption the attitude of the democrats es pecaly the southerners unchanged. In the votes in favor of the amendment in the congress the republicans though in the minority were in the ma ority in the house and in the senate in all preliminary voting the republicans led.
 Nothing could be farther from the truth than the assertion in the that it the diatory tactics of the republicans in the senate the closing hours of the last congress that brought about the failure of the resolution It was the avowed purpose of the democratic leaders in the senate not to let resolution come to vote, the same purpose now which has inspired them to throw every obstacle in it's way in this session.
 There is argument in the statement of Kichin, of the opponents of the resolution that the repub licans in sixteen years of control had not adopted resolution In the sixteen years of republican control the demand for national suffrage was uncertain. It fully developed in 1916 midway in the democratic control of both branches of the government noth ing done toward the submission of the question 10 the legislatures.
 On May 21 the resolution was adopted by the re- publican house of representatives almost the first act of legislation by the new congress Two hundred republican votes were cast for the resolution and only nineteen votes were cast against it. The demo- orats cast 1O2 votes for the resolution and against it. The following is a list of the opposing republicans all of them with the single exception of Hull of Iowa. practically unknown and without influence:
 Brooks of Pennsylvania, Browning. Dunn.
 Focht, Garland Greene of Massachusetts Hull
 of Iowa, Lampert, Luce, Moore of Pennsy-
 vania Mudd, Paige Sanders of New York
 stephens of Ohio. Tlson, Tinkham, Voight
 Watson of Pennsylvania.
 And here is the list of the opposing democrats which reads like roster of the southern membership of the house embracing the of the former 1oor leader, the chairman Of the late committee on military affairs and many other men who have di- rected democratic policies or have been the SUD- porters of President Wilson's policies during the last dx years:
 Almon. Bankhead Bell Benson Black
 Blackmon, Bland of Virginia Brand Brinson
 Buchanan. Byrnes of South Carolina Candler
 Clark of Florida, Coady. Collier Crisp Dent
 Dewalt. Dominic, Dorenus Doughton Eagle
 Flood, Gard, Garner. Garrett, Hurdy of Texas
 Harrison Haflin Holland Hull of Tennessee
 Johnson of Mississippi, Ktchin Langford, La
 zaro, Lesher. Lever McDuffie Mansfield
 Martin Montague Moon of Tennessee Nicol
 of South Carolina, Overstreet Park Pou
 Ragsdale, Rayburn, Riordan. Robinson Of
 North Carolina, Rouse of Kentucky Sanders
 of Lousiana Saunders Of Virginia Slsson
 small, Steagall Stedman, Steele, Stephens Of
 Mississippi Stevenson. Venable. vnson Wat
 kins. Watson of Virginia. Webb Whalev
 Wilson of Louisiana, Wise, Woodt of Vir-
 ginia, Wright.
 mere IS nothing the democratic committee can say there IS no appeal that democratic orators can make can remove the impression of the steady hos tiity of the national democratic party throughout the last six years to the giving of votes to women