Show ABOUT SUFFRAGE i THE re recent cent decision odthe of the U S supreme court concerning the matter of the right of suffrage appears to be giving a good deal of satis zatis satisfaction faction in lu different parts of the country although it denies the right of woman suffrage except where granted by local law the missouri dc democrat macrat bf march 31 says c the the tho preposterous claim that tho the fourteenth amendment of the constitution ution sets aside all state constitutions and laws regarding sur bur suffrage and extends that franchise to all citizens of the united states hardly needed the emphatic denial dental which it has received by unanimous decision of the supreme court of the united states for if the constitution extends the franchise to all citizens it extends it to babies id in the cradle convicts in the penitentiary and to lunatics in the asylum ftp it is not nob necessary to discuss the absurdity of such a claim the supreme court holds that the constitution does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one its fifteenth amendment merely provides that states shall not exclude persons on account of race or color but both amendments and the constitution leave leavo the states to determine what portion of the citizens as to age ae sex property intelligence nce or other qualifications so represents the whole community that the franchise may wisely be conferred upon it that preposterous claim was made here to cover a number of ring election frauds aud and this emphatic I 1 i I 1 denial of the claim by the court of ast last resort hardly suits the ring 1 ites i the philadelphia ilar marcu march eh 30 says t the supreme court of the united states in the case of miner against Hopper satt involving the political status of women under the war amendments follows the line already laid down in the new orleans alid other recent cases women are citizens now precisely as they were before the adoption of the fourteenth amendment and have the same privileges now that they had before but suffrage is not one of the privileges of citizens as such and labe the fourteenth amendment does not apply to it A citizen is a voter under the constitution and laws jaws of his state and all that the recent amendments provide is that the right of a citizen to vote shall rot not be denied for bertain certain specific reasons A number of very important constitutional principles are I 1 laid down with unusual force and clearness clearnes in this decision principles more important indeed than the point directly ruled that the political position of women under the constitution is not in any way affected by the amendments this is the most interesting decision that chief justice waite has yet delivered and irwill it will be received with a great deal of pleasure by a nil all 11 but the Buffi suffrage rage reformers |