The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-08-18
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
At LAST HAS WON
Amendment Ratified by the Tennes-
zee House Of Representatives
Early this Afternoon
AssoeIated Preasl

vote was 49 to As. The senate had
previously ratified the amendment by
the vote of 25 to 4
Speaker Walker in an attempt to
have the house action reconsidered,
changed his vote from nay to aye and
moved for reconsideration. Walkers
change made the ratification vote 80
10 AIS. The house adjourned until TO-
morrow when Walker II privileged To-
ask Tor reconsideration.
This action by the Tennessee Iegis-
lature allows 1900. 900 women to-
vote in the fall presidential election
unless the house rescinds is action.
Al LONG STRUGGLE ENDED
Washington, Aug. Is Ratification
or the suffrage amendment to the
constitution ends struggle which
began i'll this country before the col
onies declared their independence. II
will eventually enfranchise 25, ,000, 900
women
Woman suffrage first raised its
voice IN America IN Maryland IN 1647
when Mistress Margaret Brent, heir
Of Lord Calbert, demanded a place In
the Iep Stature Of the colony as a.
property holder Of wide extent And
iii the days of the revolution Abigail
Adamss wrote her husband John
Adams at the Continental Congress
which was framing the laws of the
iEfant nation that, ssif-4in the new
laws particular care and attention
are not paid to the ladies', we are de-
termined to foment rebellion and
will not hold ourselves bolnd To obey
any laws in which we have no voice.
Organized work for woman suf-
frage began HI the United States with
the woman rights convention In
Seneca Falls, m K. in 1848. which
was called BY Lucretia Mott and Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton, early leaders Of
Massachusetts, and New York, IN re-
Spouse to the Indignation aroused by
the refusal to permit women to take
part iii the anti-sIayery convention in
1910. From the date Of that conven-
tion The suffrage movement iii the
United States began the fight that
lasted seventy years and ended with
victory. Another convention followed
II 1852 at Syracuse. n. Y., at which
delegates from Canada were present
and it was there that Susan B. An
thony assumed leadership Of the cause
to which she devoted her life.
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