Show V J WEST J Vm ACT A UH SUFFRAGE A f Approval by Two Tw More ore of the States Will Bring Law Into Into- Into ff Effect ff t CHARLESTON W. W Va Va March 11 Suffrage supporters today today were re recipients recipients re- re of congratulatory messages from all parts of ot the country following their sensational victory late yesterday yesterday yester ester esterday day wh when n the amendment was forced through th the senate by a vote of ot 16 to 13 With only two more states needed tomake tomalee to tomake make malee the required thirty Six attention attention attention atten atten- tion was being directed to Delaware and Washington where the state legislatures legis egis- have been called for tor special session March 22 Senator Jesse Blocks Bloch's vote after his dramatic trip across the c continent broke the tie which had had existed in the I senate since Monday 1 Senator Gribble 1 then swung his vote vot to o the support of the measure I j MRS C CATT TT R REJOICES REJOICES' REJOICES J Suffrage is won Th The words are t I simple but they thrill as few words do or can I This was the encouraging conclusion of Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt president president dent of ot the National American Woman Suffrage association In ina a statement issued here her on receipt of news that West Wes Virginia had ratified the federal suffrage amendment With West Vest Virginia Vir Vir- ginia won and the Washington and Delaware legislatures legislature's meeting soon In special session the opinion expressed I at headquarters was that the struggle is over MEANS NATION IS WON People who have followed the course cours of woman suffrage from the outside with indifference or Small email understand understand- understanding ing of ot what has been at stake sal said Mrs Catt will have no comprehension sion slon of the real m which th the West Vest Virginia victory carries to worn worn- en To us It means that the nation Js is won that the year seventy-year struggle i is over that the women of ot America ar are enfranchised women And now what whatever ver comes cornea out o of granting the suffrage to women it i is I safe to predict it will never be responsible sible for any offering to the general genera welfare except those things which have hav b leen en well vell considered and Intelligently intelligent Indorsed |