Weekly journal-miner., 1920-10-20
WOMEN STUDY POLITICAL
 ISSUES

The increasing tendency of womer in politics to turn 10 the republican party and platform and the fact thar the republican party, through a long period cf struggle, finally was res ponsible for the enactment Of woman suffrage in the United States, were the leading points last night brought out in addresses delivered before a small but enthusiastic audience oi Prescott republican women at the community house by Mrs. H. A. Guild, chairman of the National Wo- men Speakers Bureau and repre- sentative in Arizona of the republi- can National Committee of Women Speakers, and Alfred Gale, republ . can candidate for representative tJ the state legislature.
 Despite the snowy weather, the au- dience assembled to hear Mrs. Guild, the leading speaker of the evening, gave a warm reception to the per tinent remarks of this capable wo- man, whose work has won her dis tingushed place in womens' activities throughout the southwest.
 AIr. Gale first gave a brief address on the subject of the eleventh hour attempt of the democratic party to enlis tthe sympathy of the women voters of the country by coming out for woman suffrage after it had been nationally won. Beginning with the first agitation for woman suffrage 'n this country, Gale demonstrated by figures taken from the Congressional Record that the republican, party had wen the right of the vote for the wo- men in this country.
 In December, 1866, s. C. PomeTy, republican representative from Kan sas first introduced a motion for wo- man suffrage in the House of Repfe- sentatives. This effcrt was follow ed between 1878 and 1890. In Jan. 25, 1887 an amendment to the con stitution providing for woman sui frage. introduced by Senator Henry w. Blain of New Hampshire, was voted on as follows. Republicans, 10 ayes. Il noes; Democrats, no ayes, 27 noes.
 In 1914. the vote on a similar bill showed the republicans clearly in the forefront of the movement toward woman suffrage. The vote was re- publicans, 20 ayes, F noes; Demo crats, IA ayes, 20 noes. A bill intro duced into a democratic congress in 1915 by Frank w. MOndell, repubii- can representative from Wyoming, resulted in 85 ayes and B noes from the republicans as against 50 ayes and l71 noes from the democrats. The 64th congress voted on similar measure on Sept 24, 1917, with s ayes and 30 noes from the republl- cans, and 85 ayes, v noes from the democrats.
 The republican record of support for woman suffrage was made plain again in Jan. 10. 1918. the vote being republicans, 69 ayes, B noes; demo crats, 1O3 ayes 105 noes. In October 1918. with two votes lacking, the re- publican vote was again in favor of suffrage. It stood 2 ayes to 10 noes, the democrats registering % ayes to 2l noes.
 "This vote shows that 2 percent of the republican vote, as against 56 percent of the democratic, was for woman suffrage" Gale said. And at the eleventh hour the democrats wholeheartedly reconsidered their at titude, in an advertisement in the Ladies' Home Journal, in which they congratulate the state legislatures who ratified the suffrage amendment and call upon those who did not to do so. It seems to me that the demo- crats now realize the importance of the womens' vote, and are making this eleventh hour move in vain ef- fort to capture it"
 The rest of Gales speech was de- voted to explaining to the woman the amendments to the State Consti- tuition to come before the voters at the November election.
 The address of Mrs. Guild was 're- ceived with enthusiasm by her hear CTS. She spoke quietly and effective lv. touching upon the historical de- velopment of the republican and dem ocratic parties. Bringing out the parallel rise of the two parties, the