Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-18

AAS SAAAoSASN
tional change thus will
come effective in time for
the II, 900, 900 women of
the country to vote in the presidential
election in November, unless the low.
er house Of the Tennessee assembly
rescnds its action Of today in adopt
ing the ratification resolution so to
as
Speaker Walker leader of the anti
sulfragists, put opponents in posi-
ton to demand reconsideration by
changing his vote from nay to aye
and moving to reconsider. The house
/ adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow,
when the speakers motion will have
| he right OF way Suffrage and anti
! suffrage forces frightened their lines
( this afternoon for the final fight, and
both sides were claiming victory
| The suifragists, however, had the
| advantage of tOday's victory and ex
| pressed confidence that Speaker
! Walkers motion will be voted down
tomorrow The next step in ratifica
ton then will be the certifying the &C.
| ton of the Tennessee assembly to
| the secretary of state to the United
! States, who upon its receipt will is
sue a proclamation declaring the
amendment ratified.
The Tennessee senate ratified the
amendment last Friday by vote of
% to 4.
The lineup on the vote for ratitica.
ton follows:
Democrats-Aye. 35; no, 81 alb
sent, |
epublicans-Aye, 10; no. ~; abb
sent. 2.
Cox Withholds Statement
! Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 1S.-Governor
! Cox, Democratic candidate for the
( presidency received his first naws
! this morning OF the action on the
womans suffrage amendment from
/ the Associated Press. He said he
would withhold a statement on the
subject until later
Ready for All Attacks.
New York. Aug, lS.-The National
American Woman, Suffrage associa-
ton is preparing to meet any attacks
which may be made to prevent the
suffrage amendment from becoming
law. according to statement issued
today by the New York headquar-
tors of the organization. upon rattica-
ton of the amendment by Tennessee.
1t expects the Secretary of State
to proCla m the amendment at once as
ratified, the statement SAID.
Ends Fight Of Many Years.
Washington. Aug DISQUALIFICATION
of the suffrage amendment to the con-
stitHtion ends a struggle which began
in this country before the colonies
declared their independence. 1t will
eventually entranchise 25,000,UOD
women.
Woman suffrage first raised It's
! voice in America in Maryland in l647,
when Mistress Margaret Brent. heir
of Lord Calvert, demand a place in
the legislature of the colonay as d
property holder OF wide extent. And
in the days OF the revolution Abigail
Adams wrote her husband, John
Adams. at the continental congress
which was framing the laws of the
infant nation. that 'if, in the new
laws. particular care and attention are
not paid to the ladies we are deter
mined to fOment a 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 right convention in Seneca
Fails. y. Y, in 1S4S. which was called
by Iucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. early leaders of Massachu-
=, sets and New York, in response to
bn DrpnCnI nv tho
refusal to permit women TO take part
in the anti-slaNery convention of 1910.
From the date Of that convention the
suffrage movement in the United
States began the fight that lasted
seventy years ami ended with victory,
Another convention followed in 1852
at Syracuse. \. \. at hich delegates
from Canada We're present, and it was
there that susan +. Anthony assumed
leadership OF the cause to which she
devoted her life.
In 1869 the National Woman SUI
irage association. with Miss Anthony
and Mrs stanton at its head, was
formed in New York, and in the same
year the American Woman Suffrage
association was organized in Clev"-
land with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward
Howe its its leaders. AT first dtie".
, ing widely in policy, the national assn-
citation working to put suffrage
amendment through he federal con
gress and its sister organization bend
: ing its efforts to convert the country
state by state, the two associations
later united under the name of the
: National Woman Suffrage association.
fCapffouod m NARA 4 oOl a.