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Show NEITHER PARTY WON SUFFRAGE I FOREMEN The Female Fighters, Themselves, Them-selves, Were Responsible, Mark Sullivan Declares NEW VOTERS SAID TO FAVOR NATION LEAGUE1 Woman Power in Political Parties to Be Watched With Interest Hi M Klv si ,i i National Political Correspondent of the .- ork EVCQlUg Post WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.8 So m.i.i extravagant claims for the credit for worn. in suffrage and so many equally equal-ly extravagant predictions as to its results re-sults are belg made by partisans that it la worth while to look into this; subject from the point of view wf the; Independent voter. Both thii candidates for president,1 and also large numbers ot partisan leaders, partisan politicians and partisan par-tisan newspapers have tendered inelr congratulations to the ladle.?, each ' adding unctuously that he is huppv i.. feel it was his party thai made ho thing possible. The truth about it is. the Women-don't Women-don't ow this victory to either party.! They owe it to themselves. The women wom-en know this perfectly well I huve talked, during the last two or -three months, ylth scons fcpf, Uuy 4onif-n v'.hu Jiav l-d il-K ,ib. On;'- lMii hej .I- penectiy 'VniYng to t.miTe and politely conceal their real feelings winn the men politicians Congratulate theni. they all understand, and in private pri-vate conversation say. that they don't owe anything to either party and don't propose to act as if they did. Of course, If you go back Into it simply as a matter of historical In-: tcrest, some things can be said PARTI GOES LIMIT it i! true that during the Usi half! year or so the Democratic party has, gone the limit In trvlng to bring ! woman suffrage about and In Other-Wise Other-Wise trying to commend itself to the, women, one reason I think Is that the Democrats hac long anticipated the league of nations WOS going to be en is.,ue in this rumpalgn, and they believed thut with the women voting they would gt-t a better break on this USUI than the Republicans. In this Was they are undoubted!;, correct More women favor a league "f nations than oppose it, and there are mon women who favor a league of nations than men favor it Another factor in the axtraordinar) deference, the Democrats have been: Paying to the women was in the personality per-sonality of tho re, ent Dcmooraflc Chairman, Homer S. Cuinmlngs. Mr CUmihUIgs really beljeves in the league of nations believsj In It with his h'-art In Ihe way Wilspn believes in it Mr Cuinmlngs also believes inj woman suffrage The way the Democratic Dem-ocratic national committee undei Mr Cummlng's leadership exerted itself In the direction of courtesy towards the women at the San Francisco conven-l tlon and on other occasions recently, caused some of the more old-fash-' toned politicians m Ho p u i ,, i, , a disapproval which they didn't quite da re i xpress. PLANS FOR WOMl n Tho Demoi ratlc national committee at San l-'runcl.v-o parsed and put Into effect a resolution providing that hen .' after each state shall have one wom- an member In addition to this existing male member. The member ship or the committee wus doubled one woman for each man By contrast with thnt the Republican Repub-lican naUonul committee, when they met in June, were one woman to each ten men Moreover, the Republicans went about it go grudgingly und the distaste of the Republican purtv officials of-ficials for making any concession at1 nil was so apparent thnt the women who had been negotiating with them aren't apt to feel any gratitude to- ward the officials of that party. So much for the past few months Bui If you go back a little fprthei there can be no question as a matti i ol blston th.it the- Republican p. mm. as a whole and those states in which the Republican party la usually dominant dom-inant have b.-in ihi ones that aro1 really reMoonslbh foi tin passage of the suffrage amendment. Everybody knows that tho Demo-j cratlc parti in the south faces conditions condi-tions Whleb l-all;i.. ir to bo predlspo.e, rather toward limiting suffrage than! toward exti mling it Evirybody knows why thl Is bo, md every fair minded person sympathizes! with the position in which the I), n o-I CratlC party finds Itself in the south.1 But that the Democratic partv : r.-suit of this condition, b.is Its mind turned aw uy from any though: of Increasing the number of voters there can be no doubt whatever The fact Is that Se ,,, ,.,f lno eight' states in which the amendment has hern defeated have Imtii below m, Mason and Dixon line. Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama", South Carolina. Vlr- (Continued on l'nge Five.) 1 Neither Party Won Suffrage for Women (Continued fnm Pago One) Ij ginia. Louisiana, Maryland and pele- i, ware are the only states that refused t t0 ratify Everybody understands that ! this condition, if seen truly as a nm- .. ter of the history of how It came about 0J long ago. Is the misfortune of th- Demon. iti. ,ml tho fault of tho " Republican party Hut that fact isn t 9l Kolng to prevent the Ri publicans ii from making as much political capital out of it as they can. mSTORTCAJj INTEREST. Aft However, the interest in this Is l'a chiefly historical oi.lv After these 1 theories to the effoct that the women yyi arc going to vote Democratic becausi of gratitude for Tennessee, or that nKg hey are going to vote rtopuhllcan 86 through gratltudd because tVc hulk of SH the states that ga e suffrage its mo- j3S mentum were Republican, Is nonsense. I think it Is true that tho vote of Mfg3 'he women this fal! will, distribute n- self between the two partleH, in a Wgyjt slightly different proportion from the Mf vote of the men. But the reason won't H have anything to do with gratitude, o! fBm with anything In tho paHt The reason will be because of the Way the parties E happen to be lined up on the Ihsuo IT , especlallj two of the Issues and tho J7'4;. ,'iv the women happen to feel toward . the personalities of the two candidates 'jjk as those personalities ehnnKe ilurln; Bp Iho campaign- Women probably will Wj always vote n little more on the basis of the candidate's personality than men WQMEN M LEAGUE! Tiut most of all the women oters fr J this full will be prett sur? to take ao- twm count of two issues that nre going to appear In tho campaign One of these is the league of nations. Hie women on the whole will tend to favor that party v. hn h BCems to hold out the most lnere promise tor the limitation of war. Any polltlcan who fulls to realise that the women jT' aro keenlj Inferestod In the prevention lli "r limitation of wars Is due for a Of Course, It mn be that before tho I V election comes, for reasons that Will develop later, this issue will not look, as between the two parties, qult the WJTi same as It does now. U ' By November 3 tho Democrats maj i not s ro in have the monopolj whl h m 'his w ri:liu. thev nnUestlonablj hav, on organised 'fforts to prevent or limit wars a-; an Issue In this Cam-iPalgp, Cam-iPalgp, It Is Inconceivable that the Re-publcans Re-publcans should continue to permit the J'emocrats to have their present ' monopoly of the idealistic side of this I Issue However, your correspondent is aware of concrete developments now under waj which will make tho relative rela-tive positions of the Democrats and Republicans on ihe Issue of organised efforts against war seem different from what they now air. The other Issue, which will appeal to the women voters and which will play a larger part In the campaign is . It goes on. is prohibition Anyone with the faintest capacity for observation, knows that wcmn are more stroncjh opposed to liquor than men. Women will bo moved to take the initiative to leave their homes and ko out ana vote by so concrete and obvious a moral Issue as this is, to a greater degree de-gree than the can lie moved by any other consldorct'.on whatever. l i s M DRYS. l"p to now this ,wst versus "dry"' issue has emerged only locally In th-east th-east the capacl'v has not so far been I discussed in terms of this Issue. But I In the west and northwest tho attl-tUdd attl-tUdd of the two parties toward pro-j pro-j hlbltlon Is rlKht now just as hie an is-I is-I sue as the league of nations A little , later on it will be recopnized all over i the counlrv as a lending Issue And 'unless Cox has something definito in the way of separating himself from ltho-e Influences which wore rhlofly instrumental in-strumental in nominating him. then Ihe Di njocrats on election day will be universally uni-versally recognized to be on the - wet" side, of this Issue. So much for women suffrage as It affects the Immediate future But. measured In terms of decades, that j I doubling the number of voters ami jgilng to wonun is large a direct po-l wer in organized society as to man. Is I pari of in immensely important trend i In evolution can only be doubted by those whose education has not pro-I pro-I pared them to think In terms of decades. de-cades. . The ultimate result may not be. clear, but no one can doubt that It will I be far reaching. Governor Cox's declaration dec-laration when ho board the news from Tennesseo that "The civilisation ot the world Is saved" was of course, merely the extravagance of a candidate who is a little over excited by tho conditions condi-tions of the campaign But the recent adoption of women suffrage and nil that goes with It Is a landmark at 1 which civilization tnkes a slightly dif-: ferent turn, no thoughtful person will, ' dispute. There is one thing that makes all of ' us curious who move about In the circles cir-cles where practical politics is played What will the women do with their new-found official positions In political politi-cal organizations? WHAT ABOUT WOMEN? I have said that the Democratic national na-tional committee, for example is going to have exactly ns many women numbers num-bers as men members What we all wonder is, how is this going to work I out. Will the women who come or. the committee try to exert as much po-W'er. po-W'er. individually and collectively, as i the men'.' Will they be really effciv ; mmbrs, who will argu aend flgh and plo and pul d'irs and mak dais, and I occasional! double cross each oher as the men do? Or will they be merely, ! moihbsrs by courtesy, never quite j "knowing Just What is going on and . ' contest with the deference of exagger-1 atcd politeness from the men. as a) j subject for real power? one th.ng Is sure If the women realty, det rmlno to "sit In" the game, eacli to tho full extent of her personality, person-ality, there will be a conspicuous ex-' ex-' odus of some of the men. w ho nre now high in power In the committee. As one . ' man expressed it, "you can't do bu business with a woman the same way ; ias you can with a man, You can fight t ) with a man and call him hard names, j i and be called still harder names your-: self, and the text day ;.ou shake hands and Its all right But you can't have that kind of relations with a woman." wo-man." III there ever be women polltlcans on the national committee who will I have the Bame relative positions and power that men like. "Tobe" Hert and Joe Keating and EKd Morse havo? So far as I have become acquainted with the women who now are seen at i national committed meetings of both parties, and whoso names get into tho newspapi rs, 1 have never met but one who roall) seemed to trie to have the political gift. I us "politlcil gift" in the narrower sonse. meaning the capa- Ity to lead men and other women to do her way and managing it in such a way as to keep everybody good nat-un nat-un d As a matter of fact, a good many of the women who have so far become prominent In politics have the direct opposite of this quality. They are storm centers of bickering and ill feeling. feel-ing. In the lirger sense of being sensitive sensi-tive to currents of public feeling and knowing how to start thetn and take advantage of them, 1 know several of these women politicians whose intuitive in-tuitive knowledge of public opinion In i the mass Is greater than that of most I politicians of the male sex. (Copyright, 192,0, by New York Evening Post, Inc.) |