The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-06
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT WILL COME
 BEFORE SENATE MONDAY, FEB. 1 Q

The news, published last Tuesday, that the National Woman Suffrage Amendment would again be voted on in the Senate on Monday next has , naturally stimulated to the highest point of excitement and activity. the interest of every Suffragist in the United States. Senators at Washing ton are receiving letters and tele- I grams by tens of thousands, urging them to vote for the amendment, and every bit of influence that voteless women can bring to bear is being used to secure the majority of two thirds of the Senators necessary for the passage of the amendment.
 The women have so often felt sure of a successful vote by the Senate 1 that they were not inclined to make too confident predictions this time. Yet 1t does seem pretty certain that the vote would not have been ar | ranged for unless Senator Jones, the chairman of the Woman Suffrage Committee of the Senate which has the bill in charge, were pretty certain that the amendment would pass He would not have called up the business had he felt that it would be again a
 
 will rebound very gently to the detri- ment of the Democratic party if the amendment is defeated in a Demo- cratic Congress and passed as soon as Republican Congress comes into session.
 In the Sixty Fifth Congress the Democrats are in majority in both l Houses, and the Democratic majority l ir
 a majority of the Democratic Sena- tors are in favor of the amendment, l but it is also true that nearly three fourths of the Republican Senators support it. If the Democratic Sena- tors were supporting it in anything like the same proportion as the Re- | publicans there would be no doubt | whatever about it's passage. Two thirds of the thirty-three Senators who were opposed to the Amendment when the vote was taken last Oc- | tober were Democrats, and the Ma tional Woman's party is therefore fully justified in holding the Demo- crats responsible for the defeat at 1 that time.
 In Connecticut, as has frequently been remarked, the position is rever- sed. Here the Democrats are the friends of woman suffrage and the i Republicans are the opponents. Not all the Republicans opposed either state or nation of woman suffrage but the party, as par.y, is stand ing in opposition to the Federal Suf- frage Amendment, and to state wo- man suffrage also. The position in the Senate is most unfair to the Suf- | fragists. Connecticut is represented 1 by two Republican Senators at Wash | 1ngton, and both these senators are opposed to the amendment. In the House the representatives stood three l in favor to two opposed, when the | vote was taken last year in January 1 That vote at that time fairly repre- sented the division of feeling on wo- man suffrage in the state. Since then | there has been a tremendous growth 1 in suffrage sentiment, and yet the whole of this feeling is utterly unrep- resented in the United States senate and according to the position taken | by Senator Mclean and Senator Brandegee, the whole of Connecticut might be opposed to woman suffrage. In justice to the Suffragis of Con- | necticut, the Senatorial vote ought not to be cast solidly against the amendment. It would represent the ! state much better-and especially it