Show suffrage VICTORY DUE TO DEMOCRATS party IA lenders aders have won votes vote for conic cause while republicans opposed washington D C tile tho saven to president wilson in ili parts parla by senator harris of georgia gla that lo 10 will voto vote for the federal amendment granting suffrage 0 women assures its ita adoption in III the senate pas passage oge of tile resolution by the jouse of representatives where r argo majority of the members dav ir r it Is a foregone conclusion it li Is considered significant that the rack in opposition which has here herc oton prevented tho the adoption of the imen ament appears first among democratic mo cratic senators from the south and not in tile the ranks of republican ejectors from new england sou son ahern democrats in congress havi have in the past hesitated to extend suffrage tor for tear fear of ot complicating their problems problem a by enlarging the black vote but butchis this consideration an ail not have influenced republicans Republic alli from rom new england where there Is no likelihood of negro domination senator lodge who republican opposition lit in tho the senate shows no signs of 0 t conversation to the abuso of woman suffrage other oilier re mb malican lican senators from now england seemly are of the same and the vore when the resol resolution dilon was beton bedfor lit in he last session of Con geest or of tile the twelve new england Sena senatore ae tort in III tile the sixty fifth congress two de noc rats liolla of now hampshire ind gerry of rhodo for the nt seven of the en republican Senat senators hrs opposed I 1 democrats got votes democratic leaders leader fi sought to obtain the one vote necessary to the adoption of tho the resolution in the last winter alter having in III it teed a change of on the he part of several democratic senators who had been among its opponents tho aci failure of the republicans ico to produce 33 votes they boasted they war we re ready ao to give at any time wk wd C caulp use of the def defeat elit sell ator uncil c most of lie L A tt concluded on bagos artl t tt t 14 concluded from page 1 I VICTORY DUE TO republican senators from now new B england ng la Is expressing the sentiment of his co when lie he supports woi naji suffrage the women 0 of georgia began a little willa ago an all agitation for or suffrage in fit school olec clec eions but the men of the state do bided to RO go them one bettor an ali important municipal election will avill bo b held in atlanta shortly and by a practically unanimous vote the executive committee ot of the democratic party in that city have accorded women a vote in the primary tills this movement toward the lecog antion pt of women as voters lit in atlanta corroborates the assertion that tile south Is fast coming to the complete application ot of progressive democratic principles it to la generally agreed that and senators lung ung ago would havo given their consent to suffrage it tile the control 0 of elections elec tlona had been lit in alie th e several states the legislature ot of georgia meet i in june and it my be the first leg gi gla lalure slature in tile the united states to the new constitutional anted amed ment tills this gives suffragist an additional reason for or being glad that senate hart has not waited to be grams or to be importuned importuner by committees but has rankly frankly an noticed his position as soon an aa the call for or tile the extra session of congress Con gresa was issued by president wilson president ident wilson friendly triumph ot of womans comans suffrage will be duo due 0 Demo catle effort and support practically every gain for the cause was made under bento democratic cratic contrail con troll of congress leaders of tile the party will Pres dont have been rondly frendly to the cause the very reverse true of the republican leadership whenever the lacatis havo have had control of congro sj suffrage has haa had short thrift th this la was the case lit in the period from 1861 until 1887 when republicans dominated the national legislature ali alun p a democratic was elected anti a iti the susan B anthony resolution made its debute in the senate 4 an met an adverse report it was fart brought to a congress when cleveland was president and was beaten by a vote of 34 to 16 from the fifty fourth congress tn in 1896 1895 to tate the sixty second in 1911 1 lit ianis co controlled atrol led both branch of congress the suffrage resolution ion was reported by tho the senate corn coin matte without in tho fifty fourth congress congre sR and was waa returned to a pigeon hole it was not unit atar atar he electon of president presided dei 1 wilson and the convening of th tho 0 sixty third congress which was w as dom juat itly democrate that the amend ment showed signs ot at life in mach 1914 it was breiz enaid in the senate and lost ity by a vote ot of 35 to 34 lit in january 1915 it went to a voto vote in tb tho muse of w enta tives for tile hie first time in u tory lory and was decisively defeated 1 in the sixty fifth congress tho the amendment passed tile the house with whist ono one vote 0 0 spare and was in tile tho laate ia nato for tile tho just ono one vote tote 1 the presidents advocacy of wom an ans s suffrage has bas won many friends and supporters in the house and tho the senate are as erbing to 0 o him a large share cliare of credit for the tha victorya victo victory which they foresee in thi the next co congress agress |