The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-26
PROCLA AIMS
WOMAN
SUFFRAGE
Right of Women of U. S. To
Ballot Given When Secre-
tary of State Signs
Ratification.
WOMEN MEET COLBY
They Watch Him Place Signature on
Document and Then Cheer While
Camera Men are
Left Out.
WOMEN MEET COLBY

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. The
right of women to the ballot was
formally made a part of the consti-
tuition of the United States .ooay
when Secretary of State Colby pro-
claimed ratification of the nineIennta
amendment.
Colby announced the proclamation
when he arrived at his cfice To-Day,
having signed it shortly before a. his
home here.
4 The official certifcation that Ten
inessee had become the thirty,sixth
state to ratify the amendment was
taken to his home early today
] A group of suffrage leaders who
had waited until late hour last
night for the arrival of the Tenncs-
See certification were hurriedly sum-
lmoned to the state department and
met Colby.
They cheered when told the asst
step to make the amendment opera
tive had been taken.
Among them were: Alice Paul,
chairman of the national woman's
party: Mrs Abby Scott Baker, Miss
Julia Emorty, Baltimore; DR.. Lydia
ALLEN Devilbis, of Georgia: Miss Mary
Moore Forrest, Scituate, Mass; Mrs.
Anne Calvert Neely, Vicksburg, Miss;
Mrs. B. c. Kalb Houston, Texas;
Mrs Cyrus Mead, Dayton, Ohio; Miss
Emile Grace Kay ST. Paul, Mimi,
and Miss Emma Void, Portland, Ore.
The Tennessee certification was
taken to Colby's home by Charles l..
Cooke, master of ceremonies of the
state department and Colby and
Frederick Nelson, state department
solicitor, went over it for possible
legal flaws They found none, it was
said.
Suffra gists had expected Colby to
make the ceremony of proclaiming
the amendment a public one and
were evidently disappointed They
requested him to go through the cere-
imony again for their benefit and for
moving picture men.
Colby said he would consider going
over the ceremony again and went
into his office.
The women, however, left the state
department without waiting for Col
by's decision. They held jubila-
ton at their own headquarters, short
distance away.
Miss Alice Paul declared that the
suffragists will not relax their vigi-
lance until they are sure that no fur
ther attempts will be made to take
from the woman what they have won.
1--WE are confident that the signature
of Secretary of State Colby completes
the suffrage struggle in this country
she said. Despite every obstacle
that our opponents could put in our
way women have won the right to
equal voice in the affairs of the gov
eminent"
Miss Paul will go to New York i'm
mediately to attend conference.
where the date of the naticnal wo-
mans party convention VIII be decid
ed. This convention will decide the
future of the party. ,..
Too Much Al gument.
Colby said the rea ON he had not
made a public ceremony of the proc
lamation of the amendment was be-
cause of considerable contention"
as to what groups of suffrage work
ers should participate.
According to Colbys aides, his de-
cision was made because groups of
women at his home last night got
into spirited argument as to who
should be represented at the pro
posed ceremony. a'
This secondary aspect of the
subject has regretfully been the
source of considerable contention as
to who shall participate in it and
who shall not. Inasmuch as I am not
interested in the aftermath of any
of the frictions or collisions which
may have been developed in the long
struggle for the ratification of the
amendment, | have contented myself
with the performance in the simplest