Show ATTEMPT TRICKERY TO Tn T SUFFRAGE Victims of P Plot Declare Round Robin Not Binding b nr Al Service f I Dover Del March 24 Ten a. faltering faltering falter falter- ing Ins Republicans in the Delaware state legislature were today tricked Into a bipartisan alliance with the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- will i cratic minority which unbroken if It kill suffrage ratification In this state I and ond react to the distinct advantage of or orthe the Democratic party in the forthcoming ing Ins presidential campaign Less than two t hours after alter they ha had walked like lambs into the tho cunningly h baited Democratic trap more mort than one on of ot the ten Republicans were regretting their action Others However cr had hadnot hadnot hadnot fact t that they not yet et awakened to the thc L had been outmaneuvered by an astute Democratic leader lender and two D Democrats masquerading In Republican clothes The The- Th new Delaware school code was tho the bait balt which enticed entice the tho ItA Republicans cans The Democratic floor noor leader Jeader In inthe Mc McNabb tho the rouse House Representative p persuaded the tho faltering ten to Join with tho the House Democrats In a n formal formal formal for for- mal conference to discuss tho the co code e. e Once inside the tho conference room with tho the doors closed the school code was as quickly forgotten and an antI suf fra frago f. f round robin presented to the group croup At tho end of ot an nn hour th the ten Republicans together with eleven ele of I had signed ned It the twelve c Democrats With the tha paper containing the signatures signatures signatures signa signa- tures In his pocket McNabb rc abb then aro arose e eIn In the House and announced that he bipartisan representative was speaking as 38 the of or the tho suffrage opposition Ho informed newspapermen and spread he had the tho the tho word generally that written pledges of ot ten Republicans that they would vote ote against suffrage ratification and that he was willing willingto to bet his right arm that none of oC them would break breal their pled pledges Then the real story started to leak Itak out It developed that tho the Republicans Republic Republic- ans had been deluded Into sl signing McNabb's McNabb's Mc- Mc Nabb's abbs round robin In the belief belief bellof that It represented only a stra straw and not a vote oto of present sentiment d definite showdown of at Just where the they stood on the suffrage e question The They assorted asserted that their signatures s I were not binding constituted on no pledge of votes yote |