The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-24
TREND IN DELAWARE
TOWARD REFERENDUM
Women Busy Working fol
Passage Of Amendment.
Red and Yellow Banners.

pover. Del, March 2&.---DsIawaye may
decline to ratify the Anthony federal
suffrage amendment and put the Issue
70 q referendum at the November cleo"
This proposal developed today after
the organization OF both branches OF
the legislature shortly after noon.
The legislature was summoned IN exy
traordinary session by Gov. Townsepd
to consider ratification Of the nineteenth
or suffrage amendment and two state
Henry r. Isaacs, Wilmington. demo-
cratic state chairman, Is authority for
the report that sufficient democrats ana
republicans Will buck ratification. but
would favor a referendum.
There Is q decided trend toward .
referendum" said Isaacs, after . con-
ference with democratic assernbiymen.
THE suggestion OF q referendum ID
ridiculous" declared Mrs. Florence
Bayard Hilles. OF New Castle. the state
Mrs. Iiiles was joined today by Mrs;
Lawrence Lewis, suffrage worker. OF
they blame the "antis'' for suggest
ing referring the enfranchismert Of
women question directly 10 the electors,
as q means to block approval OF the
Anthony amendment.
Congressman Caleb II, Layton,
Washington. though he comes from a
district which Is said to be nearly 100
per cent. against suffrage, canvassed
the republican legislators before the
senate and house convened.
Galleries Crowded.
T think the amendment VIII pc nlti. .
mately rntined," said Layton, but
there Is q stir fight ahead"
Galleries OF both houses are Allied with
suffragists and "antis." On dresses
and coats OF the former were yellow
roses, while the "antis" Haunted RED
roses. No demonstration was staged by
either side, though workers zealousIy
Pressure from throughout the coun-
try Is being exerted upon Gov. TOWNS
end and the legislature for prompt ac-
ton on the Anthony amendment. Menu
bers OF the Wilson cabinet have sent
blymen, urging their support Presi-.
dent Wilson Is expected to send one OF
his famous may I not" greetings
Republicans, jockeying for political
honors in having Delaware add the
final state vote necessary to have the
suffrage amendment attached TO sne
and telegraph wires hot TO the state
house. Thirty-four states have already
ratified and the legislature of the state
OF washington, which met today, Is ex-
pected to ratify the nineteenth amend
ment speedily.
Kilograms Received.
Cows. Burnquist. Minnesota' Shoup,
Colorado, and Harding. Iowa. In mes
sages to Gov, Townsend, urge Della
wares ratification. So also did Frank
Morrison. secretary of the American
Federation Of Labor, In telegram the
governor received today.
situation in Delaware on Suffrage
occasions great concern throughout the
west" wired, Albert M. Sames, repuh-
lican national committeeman from Ari-
zona.
Both Of Delaware's senator's, l..
Helsler Ball and Josiah o. Wolcott and
| Congress- Caleb r. Layton. the solitary
representative in the house. are here.
Spring weather" and not the suf-
| frage situation, they say. lured then,
here. Bah, a republican. voted for suf-
| frage, and his democratic colleague
voted negatively. Layton, coming from
a district hostile TO suffrage, supported
1t az Washington,
Nine republicans and the same mum:
| her Of democrats In the house are said
to have Joined hands In agreement ia
block Delaware's approving votes for
1 women.
AS for the women suffrsgists and an
| tisuffragists their sopranos echo over
Dover green in front OF the state house
| in their battle for legislative supremacy