Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-29
of Woman Suffrage Brought bout Lot
THE WEEK IN POLITICS
Summary of National Developments Based
Reports From The Stars Special Core
spondents and Staff Writers.

voters undoubtedly would be good
politics. if it could be stopped
there. But there is well grounded
fear that once the legislature was
convened the suffragists would
mahe a determined effoft to have
Maryland reconsider her position
and line up with the states which
have ratified. AS there is very
numerous and powerful anti-suf-
Irase element in Maryland, such a
fight would be bound to be hurtful,
no matter how it eventuated
So far the suffrage reaction in
Maryland is highly favorable to
the republicans. but sight is not
being lost of the fact that O. E.
Weller, the republican candidate
for United States senator. is a
wet. while Senator John Walter
Smith, nominated by the demo-
Gratis to succeed himself. is a
dry" AS rule the women of
Maryland. as they are elsewhere,
are inquired to be for strict en-
forcement of the Volstead act.
In the adjoining state of Della
ware, ratification of the suffrage
amendment is regarded as a knock
Delaware democracy has been
against suffrage, and the leader of
that party in the lower house of
the legislature is quoted as say
ing that it will be at least ten
years before the democrats can
expect to win any victories in the
state.
In no state, probably, is there
worse political confusion as re-
suit of suffrage than in Tennessee,
vote of the legislature of which
completed ratification. This is due,
in the main, to the bitterness
which was engendered in the rati-
fication fight. The republican lead
ers. on the whole, appear to have
played their cards a little more
skillfully. Whatever influence they
had was thrown into the scale in
favor of ratification, but they
were not sufficiently conspicuous
as advocates to win the bitter ami
mostly of suffrage opponents. A
dispatch from Nashville says the
situation is so mixed and feeling
still runs so high that any attempt
to forecast the November result
can be only guesswork.
In the south the question of how
far the Anthony amendment viii
extend in the direction of admit
ting negro women to the ballot is
discussed from an academic stand
point. but there is no expectation
that it will inject enough of them
into the electorate to alter the
foreordained results of next No
vember's voting.
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But, regardless of how much par
ty managers may like or dislike
to deal with womankind as voters,
generally they are adopting the
philosophy of Grover Cleveland
that it is condition and not a
theory which confronts them and
they are bestirring themselves
accordingly. From a few states
come suggestions. obviously from
"anti" sources, that having won the
right to vote a great lSllk of wom-
en- will be satisfied to enjoy the
right without bothering to exer-
else it. but this possibility is gain
ing little recognition from the
practical men who are charged
with responsibility for the cam
paign. They are making plans as
If they expected every qualified
woman voter to be at the polls
bright and early in the morning of
the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November.
Copyright. 1920. by The Washington STAR