Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — Theodore Says Time is Ripe For Passage of Suffrage. [ARTICLE]

Theodore Says Time is Ripe For Passage of Suffrage.

In a letter to Miss Alice Carpenter, of the women’s committee of the Hughes’ Alliance, Col. Theodore Roosevelt Tuesday gave his endorsement to the formation of an organization especially established in the suffrage states to obtain passage of a federal amendment providing for woman suffrage. The letter said, “The time is ripe for the ,passage of such an amendment. Mr. Hughes has unequivocally taken the right position."