Show II SUFFRAGE I p WI SJ SAYS MRS GA II IIi i Feminists Jubilant as West Virginia Ratification Is Announced One Vote rote Decides Issue There BT nv AF OCl 1 Press NEV MEW YORK March 10 Suf Suffrage Suf 1 1 frage is won Th The Tha words arc are simple but they thrill as fow few Wo words ds do Jo or can This was tho the encouraging aging conclusion of or Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt CaLl president o of the National National Na Na- Woman St Suffrage rage association in a statement issued hero on receipt of news that West Virginia had ratified rati rati- fic lied fied the federal suffrage amendment With West est Virginia won and the tho Washington ash into and Delaware l legislatures legislatures legisla legisla- 6 sla- sla tures turcs me meeting soon in in special r the opinion expressed at headquarters tonight was as that tt the tho tho str struggle n-gle n is over 0 navo nave Lao lne course of ot woman suffrage o from the outside with indifference or small under understanding understand understand- tand- tand lug Ins Insor of or what has been at stake said Mrs Catt will vill have havo no comprehension of ot the tho real message which West Vest Virginia carries to women To us it means that tho the nation Is won that tho the year seventy ent car struggle le Is Js over o that the thc women of ot America aro are enfranchised worn women enAnd en And now whatever comes out of or granting the suffrage o to women It Is safe to predict that It will never be responsible for or nn any offering to the tho general welfare except those things which have havo been well considered nd and Intelligently indorsed Charleston V. W. 11 y Va March 10 West cst West Virginia ratified the suffrage constitution tullon amendment late Into today The Time vote vole of or Senator Jesse Jesso Bloch moth who hurried hero here from rein California broke tho the Senate deadlock The rho house previously had adopted tho the resolution The Tho final Inal vote voto on the Anthony Continued on Page Pago 2 SUFFRAGIST LEADER 1 SAYS fiGHT IS WON ON F C Continued from Pago Page 1 amendment l was taken at o'clock k I after one ono of or the most dramatic sessions ever witnessed In either house of r the legislature For several hours suffrage suffrage rage leaders and their opponents fought in an aa effort eUort to gain a a. definite advant ant age Each st step p by either party was wholly hoU c contested for forces s determined to offset their opponents' opponents victory In keeping the legislature legislature- in session slon and the suffragists confident nt tot f gaining a majority to raU ratify by the tf o c of or Senator Bloch who had rushed across tho the continent for the occasion Crowded t Grod Crowded d galleries were kept In order with difficulty as each phase of or the tho batUe apparently swung wung In favor of cone one side or the other At first occupants pants of ot the tho galleries took to-ok more moro In- In In Senator Bloch who was re regarded regarded re- re as a a. considerable sensation by bytho tho West Virginians Shortly however Interest in Inthe tho senator was thrown Into the thC h background due to issues featuring the t. t fh of ol of the Senate te 1 In de' de declaring g v vacant the theof seat of ot Senator A. A R. R Montgomery de depriving depriving de- de him of ot tim the vote which would haye bayo defeated ratification and tho the tak- tak Ing up and adopting of the ratification resolution a of the tho lower house without amending the Senate rules one week after the tho Senates Senate's vote voto defeating Its Us i owa wn wn rest resolution on the thc same Bame subject Halls and corridors In the tho statehouse I thronged with spectators In lud ring Jing C hundreds of or women many of ot whom vore ore yellow ellow flowers as well us as s men mell J ins s a a. token of ot their l lr allegiance to to t 1 the causel cause l' l 4 Each senator had brought to hI his desk as an many chairs as could be be crowded I about it it the majority b being being- occupied iby b women At H M A A. few minutes aCt after r adjournment hundreds 8 of or men and women womer started a demonstration In the corridors many of ot them then haying having tin horns about their persons Those without the horns added ed to till the din i padded by cheering 4 r 11 |