Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-08-25
TENNESSEE AT LAST RATlEIEs
Suffrage Amendment, Making it Pos.
sible for Women 10 Vote.

" IdlllS thS Sucoh sAhltOhS TCH-
eral suffrage amendment. The con.
stitutional change will thus become
effective in time for 100000 wo-
men in the country 10 vote in the
Presidential election in November,
The amendment was ratified to-
day by vote OF % TO 1. The meas
ure had previously been adopted by
the lower house by vote oc SO 10
46.
Suffrage leaders declare thHt they
will not slacken their efforts, as It
! is their desire to have at least ono
other State ratify before the NCyem-
| ber elections, as they expect that a
| fight will be made against Tennes-
| sees action because Of the clause in
the State Constitution which pro-
| hibits any Assembly from acting on
an amendment not submitted before
the members were elected.
| Some History of Woman Suffrage.
Washington, Aug. 9.-Ratiflc. :
| ton Of the suffrage amendment to
| the Constitution ends struggle that
began in this country before the col
onies declared their independence.
1t will eventually enfranchise 25,-
| 100000 women.
| Woman suffrage raised it's voice
| first in America in Maryland in 1647,
when Mistress Margaret Brent, heir
Of Lord Calvert, demanded place
in the Legislature of the colony as
q 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
the infant nation that "if Tin the
1 1or o,ffo Il -
tention are not paid to the ladies',
bellion and will not hold ourselves
bound to obey any laws in which
we have no voice"
Organized work for woman suf-
fraGe hes%n in the United States with
the Woman's Rights Convention in
| Seneca Falls, \. Y, Tin 1S48,) which
was called by Lucretia Mott and Eliz-
abeth Cadv Stanton, the early lead
ers Of Massachusetts and New York,
in response TO the Indignation arotls-
ed by the refusal to permit women
to take part in the anti-slavery con-
vention of 1910. From the date Of
that convention the suffrage move
ment in the United States Degan ii! g
fight that lasted seventy years and
ended in victory. Another conven-
ton followed in 1852, at Syracuse,
n. Y, at which delegates from Cam
ada were present, and it was there
that Susan B. Anthony assumed the
! 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 its head,
was formed in New York, and in the
same yea: the American Woman Suf-
| rage 33sOcin tion was organized in
| Cleveland, Ohio, with Lucy stone and
Julia Ward lowe as It's leaders. At
FIRST differing widely n policy. the
National Association working 10 nut
a SUNragc amend.enj tlrUIgh the
FndcrA' Congress, ana It's sister or
ganization bending its efforts to con-
| vert the country State by State, the
two associations later united under
| the name Of the National Woman
Suffrage Association. The ssocia
tons 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 it's president.
The nineteenth amendment, which
bears her name, was drafted by Miss
Anthony in 1875, and was first in
troduced in Congress in 1878 by
Senator A. A. Sargent, Of Califor-
MIA; and It is in the same language
that the new principle of the national
| law reads:
"Article -, Section l . The right
Of citizens Of the United States to
| vote shall not be denied or abridg-
ed by the United States or by any
State on account Of sex.
Section 2. Congress shall have
power, by appropriate legislation,
to enforce the provisions Of this
article"
The amendment holds the record
of being before the country longer
than any other successful amend
ment to the Constitution. 1t was
introduced as the 10th amendment
and has been successfully the 18th,
18th and 10th, and has been before
every session Of Congress since it's
initial appearance.
! During the first 80 years after its
Introduction into Congress the
amendment made practically no pro-
gress, and until seven years ago 1t
had not been debated on the floor for
80 years. But the campaign for the
movement was slowly though stead
| lily gaining ground in the States.
Meanwhile Miss Anthony made
test OF the right of women to cast
the ballot by going to the polls and