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Show irnmmi OF E, G. P. TOLD Credit Eloncjs Solely to Republican Re-publican Slates. Says Harding MAKlON. .. Ju'y Senator UAfdlnl In i' tateraSIH t -n th re-HPfttta re-HPfttta Wll.V. he r!rn..r:Mi.(.il as persistent per-sistent mlsici" N Mi lions" of Ihe l'.o-bublllHktl l'.o-bublllHktl Prt5 altitude tOrard v. .man autfragc an1 enid i tnut party belonged the credit tor thai reform or having: a chance for success. He depldred, however, efforts to ,nnk( political capital out of. the situation, situ-ation, and stld be hoped latllcailon wdutd be ftttoHnplishad bSfora November. No-vember. Ho Mattel Whethei t Defflo-tratlf Defflo-tratlf or Repuhllcan atate woa the I hlrt -slvth io npprfnc i)ic auffrage amendment, "Even if ii Democratic state snap f.nih ibe business, the rSC6rd Will still show thai 19 Hrpuhltcan and x.-m it Democratic motes made op inn ion of lienor. MonM'ii Harding 'Ill-it is rood enough foi ns, Sly patience IB ioralj tested sot.i. -limes 'over tlio persistent mlsrepreaen-iMirins mlsrepreaen-iMirins of the Urpuhlican puny. Its 1 ' :. governor hi"I legislatures, In this mutter of WOfnafl Suffrage, whetnsf it emanates from mere Mischief Mis-chief makers or from partisan dsalfea I rannnt help resenting It We must msls? on having fail treatmepl of tltc pnrty without whose peralrtent sip- J port trie greal Ifionn have had n chance oi BUI H Kepublican sennl RpUb- hnn house aubm'.tted the constltu- H conal nmendnient for equal auffrare. H .A Democratic senate had previousl) H refused to submit it TWStitj -nine Itt- H publican and six Dcmocia.lc state ratified it. RtiJECT I l it iGK. H Six Democratic states have reject- ed the ratification resolution and ao-H ao-H other. Louisiana. h;:s J"'' .-fused to H .ive ti consideration i Kepubii- H an state Just one. Delaware has re- H The first eight states to rail I opiiblicnn mates. H "When, in m$, the H senate finally mustered the necessary H majority to aubRIlt B i I ere were SO Republ Democratic senators voting for it; hut (here were l ; Democratic .ni l only H . ;ght Republloan voting 1 Whether In the senn.e or llOUN, H in congrefls leCtalatilrCj the B record shown thut the RepUbliQ&fll H have been the persistent ami effective K supporters ot thlx mcn.iurp. In Mien i imimstances clrcumataeB (hot 1 i re thoroughly familiar to everybody b i: Is simply umar.liiR that Democratlo H managers should now have the audac- H lly to be aaauming that thev are the 'i lends of whom ihe r.iusc mUBt de H pend If i to succeed. H "For myaelf, and for tiie Republi H ian party, I earnestly iir.no thai rati fieation may he accomplished in time H to rive the whole body oi American women the ballot next November H I um woarhd with efforts to make H partisan advantage out of the situa-H situa-H lion hope then- he ratlfica- ft;' nun and 1 do not a fix whether H a is secured ihrough u Republican or H Hemocratic state. 1 will rejoice If H N'orth Carolina do It, or Hj n eases will do It, Just would rs-H rs-H Jolee if a Republlce i te B ' There will be glory i-hourIi for the H Republican par';., no nwitT whether the thhty-vi 'i Is Republican or B' rot. If any worrl mine could poB- sibly be Influsntlai with any Repubit-H Repubit-H cans in the North Carolina le3:oaiu"c H er in the Tenncts. h'X'-l.' uii H word would be ' u!fl' H and don't won j about who gets the H rredll puttlr.i |