The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-01
A WISE MOVE.

In doubling the membership of the
national committee, with woman
representative from each state. the
democratic party has made a move
which will be one of the strongest
possible factors in the coming cleo
ton in November The women voters
of this nation have been largely DEM
ocratic in their affiliations in the past
two elections, and it is admitted that
it was the woman vote that placed
President Wilson in the White House
in his last campaign.
But as the months have gone by and
state after state in the democratic
South has blindly refused to ratify
the suffrage amendment, the republic
cans have been steadily gaining the
support Of the women of the north
and west, who have felt that in spite
Of the passage Of the amendment in
congress, that the democratic party
was showing itself unfriendly to the
woman vote.
One of the chief reasons for the cleo
ton of President Wilson was that,
while he did not pledge the democratic
party to equal suffrage, he did cast
his own personal vote for suffrage.
Now, while some of the democratic
states in their blindness are refusing to
enfranchise the very body of women
who would carry the party to victory,
the democratic party as. whole, by
placing a woman in every state on the
national committee. is saying: LAS
whole, we are for you, and wish to
share our honorS with you"
This was not only a diplomatic but
a generous attitude for the democratic
- &oIy ny~I nj
woman in the state of Florida, who
has any realization Of the strength of
the woman influence in politics today,
will be proud of the fact that thus
state has been honored by having
Mrs. Lois K Mayes, of Pensacola,
placed on the democratic con;Tnittee. It
is a signal honor and worthy tribute
to a woman who has consistently given
columns of her paper to the support of
the administration in its days OF stress
and storm as well as in time OF fair
weather.
The fact that the democratic party
has placed a woman from every state
on its committee, proves conclusively
that the members of that committee
believe that by next November, the
women of every state in the union
will have been enfranchised. They
know that it depends largely on the
woman influence to save democracy.
Without the enfranchisement of the
women in all the states Of the union,
the democratic party will have hard
fight on its hands. With that en-
Of the women of the
south was the only hope for continued
white supremacy in this country as
the white woman's vote of the South
would be far in excess of the vote OF
the negro man and woman combined.
To North Carolina, it was believed
would fall the honor Of enfranchising
the women of the United States,
through ratification OF the suffrage
But the presidents recent
message to Tennessee makes it appear
that that state will be given that honor.
If the women of this country are en-
Franchised during the democratic ad-
they most surely will |
be-that means that many women who |
might otherwise have voted the repub- |
ican ticket will vote the democratic
ticket, instead. The women are wait !
ing, with their ears to the ground And |
the appointment that has just been |
made by the democrats assembled in |
san Francisco and what it portends has |
oeen heard in every city and hamlet. |