The evening world., 1920-08-19
Campaign Managers Have
New Worries Since the Ac-
ton in Tennessee.
MANY DISAPPOINTED.
Old Timers on Both Sides
Hoped in Secret the Suffs
Would Lose.
By DGUid Laurence.
Especial Correspondent OF The Eve
uina world


/ Copyright, 1920 2o).--Ratiflcation Of the
! Nineteenth Amendment 70 the Federal
Constitution permitting women In all
states Of the Union TO vote has un-
questionably upset the calculations
Of the Republican and Democratic
managers OF the Presidential cam
paign.
II may mean an entire change OF
tactics. Certainly IL already has
brought worries that didn't exist last
week One OF these is the certain
punishment OF Republican and Demo-
cratic members OF Congress who
showed themselves unfavorable to
Suffrage. The other Ia the vote of the
women on the tangible or intangible
liquor issues and the various phases
Of the Lengue of Nations controversy.
Now that the fight is over, II is not
prejudicial to say that inside both the
Republican and Democratic camps
there were influential men who se-
crety hoped that the measure would
not triumph. The women leaders used
10 call these persons reaotlonary and
ultra conservative and. however that
may be, II Is a fact that most of these
same individuals were organization
politicians and were plainly stumped
by the prospect OF organizing the
feminine vote in the wards and pre-
clncts in the short time that is left
between now and election.
WOMEN NOT EASILY ORGANIZED
FOR VOTING.
Nothing worries a political leader
so much as Inability to vote his con-
stituents in groups or at least to as
sess definitely the trend OF one dis
trict 30 he can oounterbalance losses
in another. But the women have al
ways proved themselves inaccessible.
They are hard To organize in the po-
litical sense and insist upon GER
tain independence which defies party
tradition and partisanship.
While many a man has been a life
long Republican or Democrat and
hesitates to change his allegiance.
there has been built up no such
fealty on the part of the women.
They are inclined, therefore. to judge
/ the candidates and the parties on
their merits.
And while Il is perhaps a trifle ex-
treme to use the term ''punishment"
as applied TO the intention OF the
women voters with respect 70 certain
United States Senators who have
: done ell In their power TO block Suf-
; fraEe, the women leaders believe the
activity OF these men was a true test
of their progressive or reactonaey
= character and that the ones who OBJ
3 posed Suffrage, were with rare excep-
tions similarly lined up against Other
. legislation OF social or humanitarian
character. They will, therefore, use
}. mans suffrage record as an index o
!; his value 10 the community and fEh
: nm regardless OF party.
= FINAL RESULT AIDED BY 5oTh
n POLITICAL PARTIES.
There is already a good deal o
p talk about the giving OF credit 10
the winning Of Tennessee. II 10 a 81
tperficial factor and the women lead
ers do not attach much Importance
that kind Of thing, They don't be
heye the women will vote as a matte
"A OF gratitude but as a matter OF prln
81 ciple. Although Tennessee is a Demo
In cratic state and the Democrats al
a naturally jubilant that a Souther
,e state did the trick, the women lead
n ers know fun we'll that they nevS
IN could have got Suffrage as far q
~ : Tennessee's crucial vote without u
Is constant support OF progressive RI
II publlcans both in the Congress an
'k in state Legislatures.
~ They will tell you that Gov. &C
- showed himself more sympathet
than Senator Harding. Ihey w
even show you how Democratic men
lnners in the Tennessee Legislature wei
!. influenced by Gov. COX or his pc
sonaI representatives and certa
A. | woman leaders still show resentme
over senator HardinB's kindly refe
ence 10 the anti suffrage workers
tie his speech OF acceptance,
re. But shrewd political manage
ay aren't so sure Senator Harding didT
-s NAV his cards exceptionally In vie
an OF the fact that women VINO oppos'
- Suffrage will probably use the ball
er' TO unhold their doctrines and prime
ot.H pies Just as much as those who ia
ored suffrage
a HARDING HAS GONE AFTE
me- VOTES ON BOTH SIDES.
10 In other words. Senator Hardi
for has gone after the votes of both IA
tions In the Suffrage ranks and hop
for support from both, while Gt
+" Cox has lined himself up very den
. itely against the anti-suffrage Vo
II must he remembered, too, that
er many states the anti Suffrage vote
not altogether feminine and that
To- the state OF Ohio, for instance, I
W. male vote has been almost ever eyer