The evening world., 1920-08-04
Leaders Threaten to "Place
Blame Where 1t Belongs" if
Tennessee BalkS.
WATCH BOTH NOMINEES
Express Suspicion About the
Sincerity of Leaders to Get
Suffrage Ratified.
By DaUid Laurence.
sPsolal Correspondent Of The Eve
MING World.

Ming World.
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 4. CCopyriEht,
1870 Women ere somet4nAs SUD
posed % arrive At conclusions by IN
tuition, but whntever Is at tho bottom
OF II the fact u several Outrage lead
ere who are keepAnE q close watch on
Gov. Cox and Senator Harding
openly cay tho Republican and Demo-
cratic candidates for the Presidency,
either separately or toEeth0r, can
furnish tho necessary State 70 nis ke
valid the Nineteenth Amendment en-
franchising the women OF the country.
The Suffrage leaders make out a
ctrcumstantial case tending to show
that thoy arc the victims OF political
chicanery. And II Tennessee doesn't
rtaify the amendment NEXT week they
win not hesitate 10 place the blame
whore they think It should be placed.
Tho women have expressed sus-
picion about the sincerity of both tho
Republican and Democratic efforts TO
set the Suffrage amendment ratified.
Complaint is made that the Republi-
cans In the Senate could have fur
nishsd the EXTRA vote 70 got the
amendment through the seaaion OF
Congress IN which the Democrats last
exercises control and that moro time
would have thus been available to got
the approval of State Legislatures be-
fore the Presidential election.
SENATOR HALE CRITICISED FOR
DELAYING HIS VOTE.
It is declared. for instance. that
Senator Hale OF Maine Republican,
ccr!d have ~otsd sc- Suffrage as
easily whom tho Democrats had con-
trol as when the Republicans came
into power a few months laber.
But the quarrel Of tho Suffrage
leaders ts not with the Republicans
for that, but with the Republican
campaign manaSera. who It is
charged. have been able whenever
they wanted 20 any tho word TO got
ratification through either Vermont
or Connecticut Legislatures. but
have feared the woman vote on tho
League of Nations issue might swing
10 Coy. Cox.
TO some extent, the same sort OF
talk Is heard among Democrats who
say The Republicans have II IN their
power to ratify the Suffrage amend
ment But the women are not alto
gether positive that there isn't some
inner Influence among the Democrats,
too, which might make them ready
happy II the Tennessee Legislature or
any other, for that matter, failed to
furnish the necessary vote.
1t is whispered, for instance, that
the Democrats are afraid the women
might oppose Gov. Cox for his
alleged Views in favor OF n modifi-
cation OF the Prohibition laws. On
the other hand. the women are voting
in Now York State for President and
Charlie Murphy was more than eager
TO have a wet candidate on the Pres
identlal ticket this year and is said TO
be coclsure % carrying New York
State for tho national ticket.
CAMP ON DOORSTEP OF BOTH
THE NOMINEES.
The Suffrage leaders have caInped
On the doorsteps of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic nominees for
the Presidency They insist that
Gov. Cox can control the Democrats
In the Tennessee Legislature and
that Senator Harding can influence
the Republican members. Thus far
the women leaders say the effort has
been more or less perfunctory. What
they would really like would be for
the two Presidential candidates u
play the same old fashioned pre- e-waI
politics, which they believe will be
played 20 get the masculine support
| In vital States-namely, promises
OF reward later on and all that sort
| OF thing Presidents and candidates
| for the Presidency do not hesitate tC
use patronage to get results and the
suffrage leaders while scornIng such
tactics as highly distasteful, never
theless recognise those methods as
the effective ones In practical politics
Iho SunraBe deAueTb are llred d
resolutions, pledges and public state.
ments assuring them OF support foi
tho Nineteenth Amendment. Wha
they want 10 the old practical polite.
and OF the two candidates for tn,
Presidency together don't succeed II
winning a sufficlent number OF legis
llators IN Tennessee. there will be loIiI
murmurs and pointed fingers OF dis
lapproval with reIpect TO Gov. Cox o
Senator Harding or both before an
lother week has passed.