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Show I, , : 1 Who Will Win Firfft, Elephant or Donkey? 1 1" Parties Content For Women's Favor j I. WOMEN SELECT 4 STATES TG TESTSUPPOBT To Party Whose States Ratify I Amendment Will Go Fealty - Say Leaders WASHINGTON, May 5. Who is the I hqat friend of suffrage? Thn Denio- cra'tic party or the Republican? v The National Woman's Party is after the truth. It has the stage set for a contest which should reveal it. Two ! Democratic and two Republican slates have been chosen North Carolina and j Louisiana, Democratic, and Vermon! , and Connecticut, Republican. To the v party whoso states ratify the suffrage amendment first, will go the fealty , ; md support of the women. ' . State Chairmen Lead. Two southern women of Democratic persuasion will wage intensive campaigns cam-paigns Tor the amendment in the southern states Mrs. .E. St. .Clair Thompson, Spruce Pines, N. C, suite chairman of fhe National Woman's ( Party In Vermont, and Mrs. Katherine . Hepburn. Hartford, Conn., state chair-! chair-! man in .Connecticut. Dclawaro is expected to ratify the f woman suffrage amendment soon, and 1. iVc the 36th slate. But with the I T .Achievement Of success. thn wninnn IL say, it will bo still a draw between H Y the two parties as to which has done ihe most for the cause. fk Hopes in North and South ;. In North Carolina the Democratic i.1' party has adopted a plank for ratifi cation and Governor T. W. Bickeit has 1 promised to call a special session In July. Louisiana once voted suffrage down i in a referendum, the city of New Or- II; Jeans administering the defeat, suf i Thcy and South frage receiving a majority of the votes outside of New Orleans. The Louisi' ana 'Legislature meets-in regular session ses-sion in May and Is expected to pass favorably .on suffrage. No sessions are scheduled In Vermont Ver-mont and Connecticut, but the Republican Repub-lican j)arty is considered to have an advantage in the fact that the Vermont Legislature last year passed a prcsi MTs.E.SLClaj'r Thompson dential suffrage bill, which Governor Clement vetoed. It is expected that if called into special session the Legislature Legisla-ture will ratify. vention has adopted a resolution asking ask-ing Governor M. H. Holcorab to call a special session. Further, the constitution con-stitution gives the Legislature the right to convene itself. The handicap of, the Republicans is that both governors have steadfastly refused to convene their legislatures. This, It is said, offsets the handicap of the Democrats of being in the south where suffrage has been unpopular. Anyhow, the race is on.' |