The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-11
|EM0CRATS WERE
 HEAVY SUFFERERS ROM WOMAN VOTE
epublicans Are Planning to Make Harding inauguration Most Elaborate In
 Many Years
By HUGH w. ROBERTS washington Bureau The Ags- Herald
 500 Davidson Ruiidiuu


 + washington, November 10-(Special) ) .f<le analysis of the vote cast by the ' pmen of the United States in the re- x knt national election, proves beyond
 ' 4radventure that the democrats, in rnak-
 N.g asidious and sincere effort to secure
 4 4}tiflcation of the Anthony amendment N2 time to permit full suffrage prior to
 f5oveinber 2, succeeded admirably in dig ing their own grave.
 jAsSo contrary to every expectation did iKe women vote, that one. theory is seri- 33-'siy entertained that the majority of
 Ese women who did cast their ballots
 #-ere not of that class of women which NP strenuousy fought for the right of #iffrage- This theory is substantiated to 'M certain extent iu the fact that Gov
 ss nor Roberts of Tennessee who did
 E ore, in the crucial moment for the
 &Rtification of the amendment than any
 X her man, was overwhelmingly defeated &Pr reelection. And again, every woman VI ho offered for exalted office was de-
 eated-with one notable exception. And Hhe woman of Oklahoma, Alice Robert #pn who was elected to Congress, was Mne known to have bitterly opposed Mqual suffrage, and who inflamed the #uffra gettes by the argument that the % lace of woman was the home
 % There is little question but that. when %Verything is duly considered, the dem- Ecrats did more effective service in se- Turing the ratification of the Anthony &mendment than the republicans. And Net, the republican party was in every Reasonably doubtful state, overwhelming fy sustained. Furthermore, the suffra- aettes themselves compiled the record of 8'enator Harding and declared him one ANho had been characterized by a most aacillating course respecting woman suf- rage. and that he had come across nly when it appeared to his advantage to take that position; and that Governor Fox, on the other hand, had always supported the cause of the women Fur knermore. following the nominations, Sem |ator Harding refused to petition a re- publican governor to call an extra ses-
 sion in order that the amendment might
 be ratified, whereas Governor Cox ex- pressed a willingness to visit Nashville 1n person in order to urge the legisla. ture of Tennessee to act in response to the suffragettes' petition. And yet tho women, in overwhelming numbers voted for Harding, and against Cox.
 There is still another angle which is regarded with unusual interest. The suf- fragettes were unable to line up the women of the country against their dear est enemies, Senator Wadsworth of New York was bitter against suffrage, while his wife was leader of the anti-suffra- gettes of the United States, Senator Brandagee of Connecticut was not only consistent against the Anthony amend ment, but was always sarcastic, and often vituperative, in discussing the in the Senate. Senator Pen rose of Pennsylvania had nothing from a standpoint of record or personality to commend himself to womankind. And yet the entire number was reelected with increasing majorities-this despite the fact that men considered in po- liticals sense, more moral than they. with perfect suffrage records, opposed them. Certainly, it is said in Washing ton, the women on whom the right of suffrage was, thrust against their will, proved themselves more successful in getting results than those whoa had fought for the ballot.
 The suffragettes, also, disappointed the Not only were Wads- worth, Brandagee, Penrose and others of that type. reelected. but Smith of Maryland and Beckham of Kentucky