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Show WILSON INDORSES WOM ANSU FFR AGE TELLS NEW YORK WOMEN HE HOPES THEIR CAMPAIGN MEETS WITH SUCCESS. Deolares That Woman Suffrage Is One of the Fundamental Questions of Democracy Whose Settlement Is Demanded by Issues of War. Washington. President Wilson on October 25 gave full indorsement to woman suffrage as an immediate issue In every state. Addressing a delegation of one hundred hun-dred leaders of the New York State Woman Suffrage party, who called at the White House to obtain an expression expres-sion in support of the campaign in that state, the president, in emphatic terms, declared that woman suffrage is one of the fundamental questions of democracy, whose proper settlement is demanded by the issues of the war. He praised the spirit, capacity and vision of American women in the war. "I believe," he said, "that just because be-cause we are quickened by the questions ques-tions of this war we ought to be quickened to give this question of woman suffrage our immediate consideration." consid-eration." Speaking as "one of the spokesmen of a great party," he pledged his hearty support, and added : "I want to speak for myself and say that it seems to me that this is the time for the states of this union to take this action." Explaining his leaning toward suffrage suf-frage us a state, rather than a national, na-tional, issue, he said: "I perhaps may be touched a little too much by the traditions of our politics traditions which lay such luestions almost entirely upon the states, but I want to see communities declare themselves quickened at this :ime and show the consequences of the quickening." The address was delivered in the sast room of the White House, in response re-sponse to remarks by Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse. |