South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-13
MAY -. 1920
CONTEMPLATING THE LADIEsl

Women who have been fighting for suffrage for
years finally attained it through federal amend
ment-soon ratification by another state is
tained.-ought be delighted, indeed by the insult
thrown into their teeth in the report from Wash
ngton that Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge is to tenn
porary chairman OF the republican national conven-
ton and will deliver keynote" speech. Sen
Lodge was chairman Of the committee on resoIu-
tons four years ago and was the grand opponent
70 the suffrage plank therein. finally comp romising
states rights reservation; always long on
''reserva tions' Sen. Lodge is! always voted
against suffrage too wherever and whenever he has
had the subject to cast.
Those who attended the 1916 convention in Chi
cago will remember very well the unpleasant sur
prise that the senator served the ladies in read
ing the report the committee on resolutions: in
other words the platform:
The republican party rea firming its faith
in government Of the people. by the Leople and
for the people a measure of justice
half the adult people of the country. favors the
extension of suffrage to women
he read, and the suffragists present. having been
promised federal suffrage plank thought they had
it. and cheered, and cheerec and their hand
kerchiefs and cheered whiIs Mr.. Lodge bowed AM
smiled and bowed scme more until they had sub
sided and then went on:
But recognizes the right Of each state to
settle this question for ITSELF
after which the cheers changed into Kisses and
groans- Is It possible that Chairman Will Hays and
the "cId guard" can find no one better fitted to
open the convention this year than that double
crosser to American womanhood? Say nothing Of
other insults American intelligence OF which
Sen Lodge has been guilty, his chameleonke atti-
tude all things other than woman suffrage-in-
Guiding his change of color the League of Ma
tions to make OF 1t partisan footba1l.-the
OF the country have right to resent his presence
in the convention in any such capacity.
The senator has stood firm against woman suf-
frage. and stood that subject quite alone
But for his leadership in the senate. the federal
suffrage amendment would have been passed by the
s5th congress, in time TO have gotten before the
various state legislatures Of 1919 which case
complete ratification would have been accomplish
ed long ago. Hoping to kill it indefinitely. he
argued that it should be held over until a major
republican congress ushered in, that the repub
leans might have the credit. but then he fought
right on. and voted against the amendment still
To Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge. more than any other
of men. is chargeable the expense OF the
ious state legisiatures-incuding that of Indiana
that have been called into extra session. that this
federal amendment might be ratified and one state
needed still
OF course. it is not our funeral we merely men
ton it in passing that the ladies may witness the
performance more understandingly. The democrats
carried the same sort of plank in their 1915 plat
form as did the repubhcans-but the father OF it.
and the major advocates of it, are being pushed
the Platform the present day spokesman OF
the party. They're down south where the opposi-
ton TO suffrage is based the ignorance OF the
"colored msmmies' and poor whites"-rather than
as with Mr. Lodge TO the vote being extended to the
intelligent and highmnded of the north.