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Show f Boiled Down News From Political Pot I j CHICAGO. March 27. Illinois worn-en worn-en will be .permitted to vote at ibe presidential preference primary April 13 regardless of whether national suffrage suf-frage has been ratified by thirty-six states prior to that time. ! Attorney General Brundage today, at the suggestion of Gov. Frank O. Low-den, Low-den, reversed a previous ruling denying deny-ing the women to vote. JACKSON, Mich., March 27. Abandonment Aban-donment of what he termed tho present pres-ent American policy of meddling in the problems of Europe, and a return I to serious consideration of thejnter-, inal affairs of the United States was j demanded by Senator Miles Polndex- ter, candidate for the Republican nom-jination nom-jination for president, in a speech here. I "If we must settle tho problem ot some other nation," he added, "why inot step across the border and lake a hand in Mexico?" J BUFFALO, N. Y., March 27. U. S. j Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cali-I fornia, candidate for the Republican! presidential' nomination, opened his New York state campaign here with' speeches in which ho declared that I j ihe" league of nations must be the dom-l Inant issue in the coming presidential contest. ' SA"NTA.FE, N. M., March 27. New! Mexico's delegatesto the Republican! natUJnuUiU'cnHonw&Se tc-niglft in-jlrwjfcQrn in-jlrwjfcQrn n ) General Leonard! Wood for.Tl?e5)resldentlal nomination. I Action ot the convention came after j a motion to indorse ' General Wood ' without Instructions was voted down! 1(J0 to SO. The vote to instruct fori Genoral Wood was unanimous'. ' i WASHINGTON, Match. 27. An ad-! verse vote by the Delaware legislature) on the suffrage amendment might cost' the Republican party the presidency,! the senate and the house at the No-1 'vember elections. Representative Fessi of Ohio, chairman of the national He- publican congressional committee,! said in a mcssago to Senator Ball at, Dover. ; Mr. Fess appealed to his party in' Delaware to ratify the amendment and ' not to break the record of Republican! states which havo voted on it. He said j 29 Republican stales of thy 06 necessary neces-sary lo make the amendment effective effec-tive have ratified it, eight of them ' unanimously, while no Republican' jstate has rejected it. Six Democratic i states have voted adversely on the amendment. ,Mr. Fess said. If the tlnr-; ty-sixlh stale to vole, a Republican; state, turned the aiuondment down, hoi continued, tho party would be blamed j for tho entire failure, i JACICSON; Miss., March 27. ThJ peace treaty was rejected by the sen- ate as a result of a "great conspiracy" against President Wilson, Senator John Sharp Williams declared today in an address to the Mississippi legislature. legis-lature. J "1 Jbelieve (here are now men who! are glad that the president is sick, perhaps hope Tor his death," Senator Williams said. Declaring the treaty debate was th-' "most confused gab-fost in the .his-1 lory of the world." Senator Williams long known as a masler of sarcasm in (senate debate, excoriated those who I helped defeat the league of nations. |