Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-15
HARDING HOPES
!. BALLOT WILL BE
GIVEN To WOMEN n
At EARLY DATE
Republican Nominee Is In
different As To the Poll t..
iCaI Complexion of the
Next State TO RatIfy.
WANTS IT SETTLED BY
NOVEMBER ELECTION
G, 0, P, Is Entitled to the
Credit For That Reform
Ever Having a Chance for
Success, He Claims.


10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtRtl
Marion. o.. July 14.-Senator
Harding in statement tonight re-
iented what he characterized as
persistent misrepresentation" of
the republican party's attitude to-
wards woman suffrage and said to
that party belonged the credit for
hat reform ever having a chance
for success.
He deplored, however, efforts to
make political capital out of the
situation, and said he hoped rati-
fication would be accomplished
before November, no matter
whether a democratic or republi-
can state was the thirty-sixth to
approve the suffrage amendment.
Even If a democratic state
shall finish the business. the record
still will show that twenty mine re-
publican and seven democratic
states made up the roll of honor"
Senator Harding said, That is
good enough for us.
MY patience is sorely tested
some times over the persistent mis-
representations of the republican
party, its state governors and legis-
'ators In this matter of woman's
suffrage. Whether it emanates
from mere mischief makers or
from partisan desires | cannot help
resenting it. We must insist on
having fair treatment of the party
without whose persistent support
he great reform would never have
had a chance of success.
"A republican senate ana a fs-'
publican house submitted the con-
stitutional amendment for equal
suffrage. A democratic senate had
previously refused to submit it
Twenty nine republican and six
democratic states have ratified IT
six democratic states have re.
jected the ratification resolution
and another, Louisiana, has just
refused to give 1t consideration.
One republican state-just one,
Delaware-has rejected
Some Suffrage History.
"The first eight states to ratify
were republican states.
when, in 1919, the republican
senate finally mustered the neceS-
sary ma jority to submit the amend
ment there were thirty-six re- |
publican and nearly twenty demo- |
cratic senators voting against 1t; |
but there were seventeen democrat /
ic and only eight republican senator's |
voting against it.
Whether in the senate or house, |
in congress or state legislature, the |
record shows that the republicans
have been the persistent and effec-
tive supports of this measure. lnI
such circumstance /
that are thoroughly familiar to ev-
is simply amazing that
managers should now
have the audacity to be assuming
that they are the friends on whom
the cause must depend If 1t is to
succeed,
Anxious for Action.
For myself, and for the repub-
lican party, | earnestly desire that
may be accomplished
in time to give the whole body of
American women the ballot next
| am wearied with et-
forts to make partisan advantage
out of the situation. | hope there
will be ratification and ! do not
care a fig whether it is secured
a republican or demo-
cratic state. / will rejoice If North
Carolina will do it, or If Tennessee
will. Just as | would rejoice II a
state did 1t.
There will be glory enough for
he republican party, no matter
whether the thirty sixth state is
republican or not. If any word OF
nine could possibly be influential
With any republicans in the North
Carolina legislature, or in the Ten
lessee legislature that word would
De vote for ratification, and don't
worry about who gets the credit
If putting it over"
Senator Harding spent the fore
loon working on his speech OF ac- ,,
,eptance but later entertained at
A. P. Moore. publisher OF
he Pittsburgh (Pa) Leader, and
R. F. Wolfe. publisher of the CO.
umbus (Ohio) Dispatch and Jour-
lal. Later he conferred for nearly
IN hour with Mr.. Wolfe, who said
le had made only friendly call
Is he and the senator had been
friends for long time.
Trying 70 Complete Speech.
Tomorrow the senator plans to :
levote his attention principally to
lis speech which he now hopes to
ave completed by Saturday.
When Mrs. Harding sought to
btain a French flag today to sus-
,end from the porch of her home
n observance of Bastile day,
earch of the city showed that
one could be secured. Undismay- i
d, however. she at once hurried
own town, where she purchased
lue, white and red bunting and
n her return hecse quickly made
flag six feet long, which was
oisted to the top of the flag pole
ttached to the front porch.
"I'm entitled to celebrate Bastile
ay, not only on account of the
istoric associations of the Ameri-
an and French peoples. but be-
ause my grandmother was
'rsnch," Mrs. Harding said, II