Connecticut western news., 1920-09-02
CREDIT FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

. 1H6 CIVlllZdLlOH OI LIl6 WOTIQ IS savedw cries Governor Cox; and modesty adds that this achievement "is an earnest of the Democratic policy to pay its platform obliga- tions." MT. George White, also, who is Governor Cox's own manipulated Chairman of the Democratic Nation al Committee, rises to. remark that
 Whatever the Republicans have
 tried to do with regard to suffrage
 they have failed, and it remained
 for the Democratic leaders to put
 suffrage through.
 We'll, let us look at the record
 Miss Anthony presented her ap- peal to Congress for the first time in 1878. The House of Representatives then had Democratic majority, and her appeal was ignored. That was at the beginning of the campaign. At it's close the Anthony amend ment" was again presented to Con- gress in 1918. That body was then Democratic in both branches, and by Democratic votes it rejected the amendment. That fall, however, in answer to the Presidents arrogant demand for another Democratic Con- gress, the nation elected a Congress Republican in both branches. That Republican Congress met in special session on May 19, 1919. The suff- rage amendment was resubmitted, and two days later, on May 21, the House of Representative over whelmingly adopted it, though a large part of the Democratic minor ity persisted in opposition to it. The vote was: For the amendment, 200 Republicans and 102 Democrats; against the amendment, 19 Republi- cans and 70 Democrats. Thus it was carried absolutely by Republican votes, the Republican votes in it's favor being more than all the Demo- cratic votes, both yeas and nays, plus the handful of dissenting Repub- licans. A little later, on June 4, the Senate similarly passed it, the vote being: For the amendment, 36 Re publicans and 20 Democrats; against the amendment, 8 Republicans and IT Democrats. In the whole Con- gress 236 Republicans voted for equal suffrage and only 27 against it. While only 122 Democrats voted for it and no fewer than ST against it. The Republican votes for suff- rage were exactly equal to all the Democratic votes, both for and against, plus the few Republican votes against it.
 The third and final stage of the campaign was that for ratifction by the States. The first eight States that ratified it were Republican, and the first six that rejected it were Democratic. Of the thirty-six which have ratified it, twenty-six have legislatures Republican in both branches, only seven have Democra- tic legislatures, and the remaining three have legislatures Republican in one branch and Democratic in the other. Of the eight which have re- jected it, seven are Democratic and only one is Republican. Of the four which have not acted at all, two be- long to each party. And even in the very last act, ratification by the Democratic legislature of Tennessee was effected only through the favor able action of the Republican min ority.
 Despite the shamelessly false pre- tences of Governor Cox and his chief campaign manager, therefore, the indisputable fact of history is that from beginning to end the political enfranchisement of women has been the work of the Republican party. Ii was the Republican party that en-