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Show CREDIT FOR EUAL SUFFRAGE "The clvllUation of tho world is navedt" cries Governor Cox; and modestly adds that this achievement "Is in earnest of tho Democratic policy pol-icy to pny its platform obligations." Mr. George White, also, who Is Governor Gov-ernor Cox's own hm picked chairman chair-man of tho Democratic national committee, com-mittee, rises to remark that "Whatever the Republicans have tried to do with regard' to suffrage they havo failed and It remained for the Democratic leaders to put suffrage suf-frage through." Well, let us look at (he record. Miss Anthony presented hor appeal ap-peal to Congress, for tho, first tlmo In 1878, The house of representatives then had n Democratic majority and hor appeal was Ignored. That was at the beginning of the campaign. At Us close the Anthony amendment was again presented to Congress In 1918. That body Was then Democratic Democrat-ic in both branches and by Democratic Demo-cratic votes it rejected tho amendment. amend-ment. That fall, however, In answer to the president's arrogant demand for another Democratic Congress, the nation elected a Congress Republican Repub-lican In both branches. That Republican Repub-lican Congress met in special session on May 19, 1919. The suffrage amendment was resubmitted and two days later, on May 21, the' house of representatives overwhelmingly adopted ad-opted it, though a largo part of tho Democratic minority persisted in opposition op-position to it. Tho ovto was: For the amendment, 200 illepubllcans and 102 Democrats; against tho amendment, 19 Republicans and 70 Domocrats. Thus it was carried absolutely ab-solutely by Republican -vbtcs, tho Republican votes in its favor being more than all tho Democratic votes, both yeas and nays, plus tho handful of dissenting Republicans. A llttlo later, .pn June 5, the Senato similarly similar-ly passed it, tho voto being; For the amendment 36 Republicans and 20 Democrats; against the amendment, 8 Republicans nnd 17' Democrats. In tho whole Congress 236 Republicans voted for equal suffrage and only 27 against It.. Whilo only r122 Domocrats Domo-crats Toted for It and no fewer than 87 against It. The Republican votes for suffrago were exactly equal to all the Democratic Totes, both for and against, plus the few Republican votes against It. The third and final stago of the campaign was that for ratification by tho states. The first eight statoe that ratified It were Iteubllcan, and the first six that rejected It were Democratic Of the thlrty-U which havo ratified It, twenty-six haTe legislatures leg-islatures Republican In both branches, branch-es, only seven have Democratic legislatures, leg-islatures, and the remaining three haTe legisaiturea Republican la 'one branch and Democratic In the other. Of the eight which hare rejected It, seven are Democratic and only one is Republican. Of the four 'which have not actod at all, two belong to each party. And even In the very last act, ratification by the Democratic Demo-cratic legislature of Tennessee was offocted only through tho favorable actlcm C the RepnbUeaa ralnorfty. Despite the shamelessly false pretences pre-tences of (,Gqr.ernor Cox and fhls chief campaign manager, therefore, tho Indisputable fact of history U that from tho beginning to end the political enfranchisement of womon has been the work of the Republican Republi-can party. U was the Republican party thta encouraged and advised It In its platforms. It was the Republican Repub-lican party that put the amendment through Congress a Republican Congress. It was chiefly Republican Republi-can states that gave it final ratification. ratifi-cation. That is the record, soen and known of all men and women, and upon that record must credit for the achievement be based. Harvey's Weekly. |