The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-06-10

10 celebrate the passage of the
amendment the national association
will give reception at it's Washing
ton headquarters to the members of
the house and senate who voted for
the resolution and to their wives.
These will be the only guests.
Miss Paul, chairman of the Ma
tional Woman's Party, issued a state
! ment, in which she said: "There
is no doubt of ratification by the
states. We enter upon the campaign
for special sessions of legislatures
to accomplish this ratification before
1920 in the full assurance that we
shall win
THE last stage of the fight is toI
obtain ratification of the amend-l
ment so women may vote in the
Presidential election in 1920" said
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. presi- |
dent of the association. This we are |
confident will be achieved The
friends of woman suffrage in both
parties have carried out their word. |
In the result we can turn our backs |
upon the end of long and arduous
struggle, needlessly darkened and |
embittered by the stubbornness of |
few at the expense of the many.
Eyes front is the watchword as we
turn upon the struggle for ratifica-
tion by the states"
Prospects OF Ratification.
suffrage leaders say quick ratifi-
cation is assured in twenty-eight
states in which women now have full
or Presidential suffrage. These are
Wyoming. Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
Washington, California. Kansas.
Arizona, Oregon, Montana. New
York, Oklahoma. South Dakota,
Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Rhode
Island, North Dakota, Iowa, Wiscon-
sin. Indiana, Maine, Minnesota,
Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas. Ne
vada and Texas
Legislatures now in session are:
Illinois, will adjourn late in June:
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,. ad-
journ end of June or first of July;
Wisconsin, Florida, in session until
June L, cannot ratify, because an
election must intervene between sub
mission of amendment and ratifica-
ton.
Legislatures to meet comparative
ly soon, or with prospects of meet
ing soon, are: Michigan and Texas.
extra sessions called in June: Geor-
Sia, TO meet this month; Alabama.
to meet in July; Louisina, possibility
or extra session before September;
New Jersey, movement for extra
session soon Maine, special session
in October; Iowa, special session in
January; Kentucky, South Carolina,
and Mississippi, meet in January;
Virginia. meets in February: Mary
land. meets during 1920; Ohio, meets
in June.
The victory for suffrage ends
fight that really dates from the
American Revolution. Women
voted under several of the colonial
governments. During the revolution
women demanded TO be included in
the governmert. ABIGAIL Adams
wrote her hUsbond. John Adams:
IF women are not represented in
this new republic there Will be an
other revolution" From the time
of the revolution women agitated
for suffrage by means of meetings
and petitions. In 1913 a woman's
rights convention was held at SEN
eca Falls, n. Y, arranged by Lucre-
tia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
as the first big suffrage demonstra-
tion. From 1S48 to the civil war ef-
forts were made to have state laws
altered to include women. and Su-
san b. Anthony became leader of
the movement
For five years after the civil war
suffragists tried to secure intcrpr"-
tation OF the fourteenth and fiji
teenth amendments which would per-
nit them to vote. In 1872 Miss An
thony made a test vote at the polls
was arrested, and refused to pay her
fine, but was never Jailed. In 1881
Miss Anthony drafted the proposed
federal amendment. the same one
that was voted on. In 1873 the
amendment was introduced in the
senate by Senator Sargent OF Cali
fornia. 1t has been voted on in the
senate five times. In 1873 the vote
was 16 yeas to "a nays; in 1914 IL
failed by Il votes. in 1913 it fail