Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1917 — President Puts O. K. On Suffrage—Women Will Vote. [ARTICLE]

President Puts O. K. On Suffrage—Women Will Vote.

Washington, Oct. 25.—President Wilson today gave full endorsement to woman suffrage as an immediate issue in every state. Addressing a delegation of one hundred leaders;, of the New York State Suffrage party who called at the white house, the president in emphatic terms declared that woman suffrage is one of the freedom questions of democracy whose proper settlement is demanded by the issues of the war. He praised the spirit, capacity and vision of American women in the war. i . “I believe,” he said, “that just because we are quickened by the question of this war, we ought to be quickened to give this question of woman’s suffrage our immediate consideration.” “I perhaps may be touched a little too much by the traditions of our politics—traditions which lay such questions almost entirely upon the states, but I want to see communities declare themselves quickened at this time and show the consequences of the quick.”