Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-18
Suffrage Fight
Had Inception
Among Colonies
BY Associated Press.

WuSiilIlSI IOii, Aus. flo.lNtttihShlo9
Of the suffrage amendment to the
constitution ends struggle which
began in this country before the
colonies declared their independence.
It will eventually enfranchise 25,-
100000 women.
Woman suffrage frst raised It's
voice in America in Maryland in
1647, when Mistress Margaret Brent,
heir OF Lord Calvert. demanded a
place in the legislature Of the colony
as a property holder OF wide extent.
And In the days Of the revolution
Abigail Adams wrote her husband,
John Adams. at the continental con-
gress which was framing the laws of
tho infant nation that, fin the
new laws, particular care and atten-
ton are not paid to the ladies. we are
determined to foment rebellion and
will not hold ourselves bound to
obey any laws in which we have no
voice."
Organized work for woman suffrage
began in the United States with the
woman's rights convention in Seneca
Falls. N. Y, 1S4S, in which was called
by Lucrctia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, early leaders Of Massachu-
ssets and New York. in response to
the Indignation aroused by the>fe-
fusal to permit women to take part
In the anti-slavery convention Of
1910. From the date of that con-
vention the suffrage movement in
the United States, began the fight
that lasted seventy years and ended
with victory. Another convention
followed in 1852 at Syracuse. N. Y,
at which delegates from Canada were
present and 1t was there that Susan
B. Anthony assumed leadership Of
the cause to which she devoted her
life.
In 1869 the National Woman Suf-
frage Association. with Miss An
thony and Mrs. Stanton at it's head.
| was formed In New York and in the
same year the American Woman
Suffrage Association was organized
| In Cleveland with Lucy Stone and
Julia Ward Howe as its leaders. AT
first differing widely in policy. the
National Association working to put
a suffrage amendment thru the fed
erel congress and its. sister organi-
zation bending ita efforts to convert
the country state by state. the two
associations later united under the
name of the National Woman Suf-
frage Association. The associations
drive for the vote. was led in turn by
Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, DR..
Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, the latter Of whom is
now its president.
The nineteenth. amendment, which
bea.s her name, was drafted by Miss
Anthony in 1875 and was first intro
duced in congress in 1878 by Senator
A. A. Sargent, OF California, and it is
In the same language that the new
principle Of the national law reads:
rSection 1.-The right of citizens
Of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on ac-
count Of sex.
Section 2.-Congresst shall have
power. by appropriate legislation, to
enforce the provisions Of this ar
ticle."
The amendment holds the record
of being before the country longer
than any other successful amend
ment to the constitution. It was in
troduced as the sixteenth amendment
and has been i'uccessively the sew
enteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth.
and has been before every session Of
congress since it's initial appearance.
Durig the first thirty-five years
S,ok,, tv,A
the amendment made practically no
progress and ur,til seven years ago it
had not been debated on the floor for
thirty years. But the campaign for
the movement was slowly but stead