The Washington herald., 1920-08-19
HEADQUARTERS HERE IS ALL BUT SWAMPED
WITH CONGRATULATIONS OVER RATIFICATION

! of American women. We welcome
our newly enfranchiscd citizens Ia
their rightful share in the govern
ment of the country"
Attorney General Palmer: Poll
iiCal democracy has become TODAY a
real fact in the United States
through the victory of woman suf-
iragc, and the women of the coun-
try are to be congratulated on the
success Of their Ions and strenuous
nght. The country is proud Of its
newly enfranChised citizens and
ashamed only of the length and diff
ficulty of the struggle which they
had to wage to secure what was
obviously their right"
Women Give Views.
Officers and leaders of the National
Woman's Party made the following
statements on the final victory OF
the suffrage amendment.
Alice Paul, Moorestown. y. j..
chairman National Woman's PARTY:
. After seventy years of the most
dithcult and exhaustive struggle.
after the expenditure of time. money
ana health, after repeated arrests
and jail sentences, American
women have at last won political
equality.
Hard as the struggle has been.
however, women will not take time
now to look back over the efforts
necessary TO win the vote. They
Will at once turn their faces toward
the future. planning how to use it.
Now that suffrage is won women
are determined to overcome the
other handiCaps placed upon them"
Mrs Lawrence Lewis, Philadel-
phla' Pa. treasurer, National Wom-
an Party: With a sigh Of relief
we cease our work of raising funds
Tor the suffrage fight. begun years
ago and carried up to the very day
of victory.
The National woman's PARTY
alone has raised almost $1,000 900
since its formation in 1918. All Of
TINS money has been spent in ayi,a
tlon for the Federal suffrage amend
ment, first for its passage through
congress and then for its ratifca-
tiOn.
women have given willingly and
generously to the struggle for their
poIltlcal emancipation. but thcv have
given with constant feeling Of
Lepel!l"h at the necessity for .uch
long continued sacrifice on behalf
OF thClr rights. Now. having finally
completed the struggle. thcv arc
free at last to enter the political
llt" OF their country and to take
thcl' part in shaping its dcstinieS." "
MRS. ABBY Scctt Baker. Washing
ton d. c., political chairman. Ma
tional Woman's party: "PoIiticians
nave used against women every
weapon in the political arsenal. The
women of this country have proved
by their triumph TODAY that they
are able to defeat the politicians, at
their own game and to secure the
triumph of great cause in spite
of every kind of opposition"
Are Now Up to Date.
Mabel Vernon, Wilmington. Del,
secretary. National Woman's party:
with ratification of the Federal
suffrage amendment by the thirty
sixth State American women have
at last caught up with the women
OF the twenty-one foreign countries
IN which full suffrage has been for
years a fact. In no other country
mas harder or longer struggle been
needed in order to secure real po-
Htical democracy. Women are hap
py at their victory today. but they
are also very tired"
Anita PolIitzer, Charleston. S. c.,
secretary of the Legislative Com
mlttee of the National Woman's
Party: The campaign for suffrage
ratlhcation has meant just as siren
uous work on the part of the mem
bers and officers of the National
Woman's Party as the campaign to
get the amendment through Con-
gress necessitated. Women realize
that the victory which is ours today
Is result of no mere chance. no
glft OF politicians or statesmen. but
or earnest and devoted work, of re-
peated sacrifices, by hundreds of
thousands of women to whom lib
erty was more precious than ease
and comfort"
Lavinia Dock, Bloomington, Del.
hrst and last suffrage picket. (Mrs.
Arniel was in the first picket squad
In 1916 and in the last group jailed
for taking part in the watch fire
demonstration in February, 1879:
am proud to have been a SOL
dler in the women's war for inde-
pendence and to have lived to wit