Show i s U i V VOTE T I Governor Clement of V Vermont t Refuses to i Call Legislature to Act on Amendment R RUTLAND Vt July 12 v Governor Pel Percival hal W w. Clement today issued a proclamation proclamation proc proc- refusing to call the tile legislature in special session to mako make possible ratificatiOn n of ot the federal amendment for or woman suffrage The Tho governors governor's proclamation follows a conference which he held at Washington recently with Senator Senator Sen- Sen ator alor Harding at al which It 11 is un understood understood understood un- un the thc Republican nominee ls l iJ With Ith hilm the he possibility of ot having haying ratification ratification tion completed b by the Republican legislature of ot Vermont I In giving his reasons for refusing refus ing JOg again to call a special session I Governor Clement sal said the proposed proposed pro pro- posed clearly invades the constitution of Vermont that thai the pr's present nt legislature was elected before the question of ot ratifying the tho federal amendment had arisen and that the people of or the state have had no opportunity to express themselves on the issue The go governor governor gov gov- vI v- v I proposed that the matter mailer betaken betaken be bo taken laken up by tho ho next legislature and urged that can candidates for Cor the election be required to lo declare I s on it Governor Go Clements Clements' I I than lion asserted that as it stands and interpreted by the supreme court today the federal j j I tion lion threatens the foundation of free tree popular government The fhe seventeenth nth amendment to I I the constitution he said had bad been lobbied hobbled through congress and state legislatures b by federal agents and the eighteenth amendment had hadI I been forced through b by powerful I and Irresponsible organizations I 1 operating through paid agents I It is now proposed to force I through the nineteenth amend amend- I ment for tor woman suffrage in the I same ame manner and und also atso without the sanction Uon the thc tr free men inch san of or e menI men I l have havo been asked to overlook o I these thes considerations as a matter mailer of party part expediency but this is a j matter maller of or principle not cy CL and the party that invades a awell I well veil established principle of popular popular lar government will suffer In the II I end t Continue Fight I N WASHINGTON Jul July 12 The Tho Tho I National Woman's Womans i party parly announced announced an an- I flounced toda today that hat Governor Cle- Cle an I meats ments refusal reCusal to lo call the Vermont state slate assembly in special session I I for Butra suffrage e ratification would not nol be accepted as final and even a larger delegation than limn had been planned would call can on Senator Harding the Republican nominee at al Marion July 22 22 to lo Impress him with wilh the necessity of carrying out the suffrage plank and pledges of ot his party parly and en enfranchising enfranchising en- en 1 franchising the women of ot the naI nallon nation na- na I llon tron in time lime for tor the or coming elec dee I Sinister Influence I V YORK July 12 When When in informed informed informed formed of ot Governor Clements Clement's re refusal refusal re re- to lo call a special session of ol olI I the Vermont legislature to pass on the tho federal womans woman's suffrage amendment Mrs Irs Carrie Chapman 1 Call CaU president of ot the National American Suffrage association IsI is issued issued Is- Is I sued the following statement t I II If It 11 it is correctly quoted the de decision decision de- de I of Governor Clement Is so soI I contrary to the dictates of or Justice common sense and political expediency ex ex- that thai It convinces me inc there I is a n sinister an and Influence ence behind it To uncover that in influence influence in- in fluence is one of or the immediate tn-I tn tasks of the suffragists The work of ot ratification will wilt be pushed strongly forward in Tennessee Ten Ten- an and North Car Carolina lIna |