The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-29
TaE sUTFRAGETTEs VIEWPOINT.

IT ~ difficult to got the viewpoint Of tho
professional suffragettc. Their action with re-
spect to the adoption OF the nineteenth amend
ment IN not at all hopeful IL II is indicative
OF the future political activity OF women after
she gets the ballot. That she ia eventually to
get It through the acceptance OF the nineteenth
amendment Is OF course beyond question.
Alice Paul the head Of tho professional
Rroup-tho "hatchet throwers" some have
called this group-announces that Senator Hard
ings home In to he pickoted throughout the
campaign. I'VE plan to spend the summer
with him." says the militant leader
which reminds one that the Chicago CON
venton was pckcted throughout notwithstand-
ing the republican party declared for suffrage.
pointed to the record which shows that 20 OF the
states that had ratified the Anthony amend
ments were republican states governed by
publican legislatures and both through its ma
tional committee and national convention urged
other states before which tho ratification ques-
ton was pending. to speedily ratify that woman
might have fun part In the coming campaign.
This far tho republican party
could go either through Its national committee
or convention. Yet the pickets persisted-and
they were OF the hatchet- throwing type: while
hundreds OF sweet. womenly women were active
about the various headquarters and IN the con-
vention. perfectly satisfied that they were af-
fating with party that and had
been the champion Of womanknd and woman's
rights,
when Miss Paul and her militant sisters
called on Senator Harding for an expression,
after he had boon chosen tho nominee his
reply splendidly manly and magnlfcently
constitutional. He assured them OF his cordial
and enthusiastic support OF their cause, directed
their attention to the platform pronouncement
on their issue, declared that he hoped for
speedy ratification OF the Anthony amendment.
but stated ne could not permist himself to tres
pass on the constitutional rights OF the state
ecutivos by urging them TO take action against
their conscientious convictions
II IN to be presumed, therefore, that Miss
Paul is pioketing the republican nominee be-
cause he fot himself bound by constitutional
checks and balances. Her discomfort is that
he did not turn autocrat and seek to the
entire union, dictate TO the various states and
become the boss OF hts own party,
Miss PAU shows herself ruled not by reason
hut by prejudice OF the illtempered sort And
she fairly convinces tho American public that
the public service never find a place for
herself and her associates even after suffrage
IS IA universal fact in America, For they are
OF precisely the same type as Sam Gompers
and other conspicuous members OF the labor
oligarchy that extensively presumes to speak
for all laboring men just Miss Paul and
her clique presumtiuously assume TO speak for
all women
No considerable number OF women will ever be
led by Miss Paul when the right type OF women
enter politics. Her olgarchy is almost as Of
fensive and Illogical as Is Sam Gompers' She
should ask Sam - isss srss>~ with her in Scket-
Ing Harding.