The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-05-10
WoMAN'S SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION
428 Jefferson Street, Milwaukee.
Rx rHEopoRA W. YouMANs

ny tVGOOOnA W. HUMANS
The passage of the presidential suf
Grage bill by the legislature of Wtscon-
sin has attracted attention OF all polLt-
Zeal parties who are making ready for
the next campaign. In the United
States fifteen and one-hah MILTON
women, over twenty -one years Of age,
will have the right to vote for presi
dential electors in November. 1920. 1t
will be an extremely important cleo
ton. since all the great questions of
reconstruction will center in the party
platforms and their candidates.
In Wisconsin, in 1915. there were
447,134 votes cast by men only for
presidential electors. The number of
women eligible to vote in 1920 win be
somewhat less than that because there
are, or were, at the last census, SO, 296
more men than women In this state
However. more than 1000 women
will be eligible to vote and unless Wis
consin women are different from their
sisters in other states a large percent
age Of these will go to tine polls on cleo
tion day. Their presence and votes
will Inject into Wisconsin politics an
entirely new element. Many Of them
are inclined toward one of the maj
on minor parties but they are by no
means so partisan as men. They are
becoming keenly interested in public
affairs. The war taught women a les
son which they can never forget that
public affairs are their affairs, that
Law passed by legislatures and CON-
gress have a direct and vital influence
on their families and their homes.
Women will scan platforms and cam
didatees carefully before they cast their
ballots.
National political committees are
planning to take representative women
into their councils. and committees of
women will be appointed to enlist the
sympathy and support of the new ar
ray Of women voters
The visit to Wisconsin of Madam
Breshl1ovsky, 1.-THE little grandmother
of the Russian revolution is Of great
interest to all who believe in real de-
mocracy Madam Breshkovslxy has
been fighting for the rights Of the peo-
pie against the iron bound autocracy
of her native land for half a century.
Thirty years She spent in exile in ST.
IBERIA, punishment meted out to her in
consequence of her active democratic
propaga rde. When the czar was de-
posed Madam Breshkovsky was
brought home to St. Petersburg In trl-
tInph, the highest honors were lavish
ed upon her and she was lodged in one
OF the Imperial palaces. She was an
ardent supporter OF the kerenSky gov
eminent and intense in her denuncia-
Zion Of the Bolsheviki with their pro-
gram of violence and death. She
pleads for better understanding OF
the Russian situation and for SYM
pathy for a misguided people. Madam
BreshovsIy spoke at the Pabst thea
ter, Milwaukee. Sunday evening
May 4.
The appointments of Congre ssrnan A.
p. Nelson, of the Eleventh Wisconsin
district to a place on the Woman Suf-
frage Committee Of the House OF Rep
resentatives Is a great qualification to
friends of the woman suffrage cause.
This committee. under tine leadership
OF Mr.. Mann of Illinois, will at once
take charge Of the federal amendment
as soon as the house is organized after
the special session gets into wording
shap". During his pre- election cam
paign Mr.. Nelson came out squarely
for woman suffrage. adopting in this
particular the same policy as his pre-
decessor. Congressman, now Senator.
1enrOOt.