Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — Womans’s Suffrage Is Endorsed by Democrats [ARTICLE]

Womans’s Suffrage Is Endorsed by Democrats

St. Louis, June 16.-The democratic national convention finished its (work today by adopting the party platform exactly as approved by President Wilson and submitted by the hesolution committee, including the plank on Americanism and that favoring woman suffrage, but not until the harmony of the threedays’ sessions had been disturbed with a row over the suffrage plank. Afiter Senator Walsh, of Montana, had told the convention that President Wilson himself considered it vita to party success, It was voted into the platfrom by a ballot of 889 1-2 to 181 i- 2 - As it went into the platform the suffrage plank stands: “We favor the extension of the franchise to the women of this country, state by state, on the same terms as to the men.”