Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-02-26
LETTERS TO EDITOR
; fq The SuiTrare Amendment

TO INC Editor Of the Evening Capital:
VIA you permit me 10 use some-os
the space in your paper to reply 10 a
Tart OF the Tong editorial upon This
Suffrage Amendment" which appear
cd iu the issue Of February 18th, and
which only came 20 my .lo'l.e yrstei-
day.
You say. ;hat one Q. Tie weak.
ne<ses in the position Of the Suifrag
lists in campaigning dufi4g tais SEES
slcL was apparently ~ overlook tie
~, that Sunrate is strictly a .Siate
question and that the Democratic
State platform as controlling.
Maryland Snnragists maintain that
Suffrage is National ques, ion. 1t
could never be satisfactory or just for
b woman to be obliged 10 lose the right
Of franchise because she moved from
State where women vote into one
where women DO not vote. II is true
the State regulates that il shall be
done and fixes the qualifications. Re
sarding the platform. surely Tie editor
% the Capital knows that there were
many. delegates who were nominated
before either the platforms were writ
ten and very few indeed of the candi-
dates were consulted about planks
Maryland Sunragists weni into the
campaign with no illusions about what
lay before them. They knew all about
| the platforms. They knew all about
the dominant minds chat control the
! political parties in Maryiandf especi
ally the Democratic party
They knew that both of the men
chosen TO preside over the Senate and
House were ayowed ants, and they
| knew that the committees named by
these two officials TO consider and TO
report on the Federal Suffrage Amend
ment--the committee on Federal Rela
tions,-were antagonistic almost to a
man.
| The Sulfragists knew that nothing
F.; ali OFT of a miracle would pass the Fed
eral Suffrage Amendment.-the mira.
Gle Of the blind receiving their sight,
and they remained III the State House
!
Bring about this result
They presented the assembly men
with sheaves oil literature, they show
red them statistics anent the closed
vote. they gave them the very latest
news on ratification, receiving the
news direct and having hand bills
mada ard placed upon the desk of the
members before the press gave il.
They urged the desirability OF hay
/ ing Maryland take her place honor
! ably among the first thirty-siX. The
| Suffragists whose male ancestors have
| always been affiliated with the Demo
, cratic party. used every honorable and
/ dignfied means of making the leaders
OF that party see that the hope OF thu
party for the najorities such as It
I used 10 enjoy a few years ago lay in
The giving OF the ballot 10 the women
of it's Stale But every effort failed,
and the blind remained blind. The
Democratic women Of Maryland hoped
20 lind a Democratic man big and fear
,ess enough 70 do a stupendous thing
LOT lHC oidlc anu iOi tiS pa cNi
men relatives and friends told us we
were foolish 10 entertain such hope
but we had an ideal, which we longed
10 have become real. and so We hoped
on to the very last, vainly. it is true.
Now. what is the result? Only that
tie State mas been placed in "a disad-
yantageous position in the nation. and
that the Democratic party has of its
owil yoliticn placed Itself in a hazard
Gus position This party will have its
leaders 10 blame for whatever comes 10
il iii the future And the Suffragists?
Well they rejoice that there are men
somewhere in the United States, If not
in Maryland who are Democrats, and
through whom political equality will
come 20 al women of the nation. Suf-
fragissS rejoice that the battle is over
and ira; it is won! And Suffragists
rejoice most OF all that never again
will they be obliged to petition Mary
land Legislature for freedom, Justice
and liberty.
NJ A. Moss.
tNirs Robert Moss.)