Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — NEW SENATORS FOR SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT [ARTICLE]

NEW SENATORS FOR SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

Washington, Feb. 25.—The loss of two suffrage votes in the Senate by the death of Senators Newlands and Brady has been made good in time for the vote on the suffrage amendment by the prompt appointment of their successors. The two new Senators from the west, Senator Henderson of Nevada, and Senator Nugent of Idaho, who have arrived in Washington and were promptly interviewed, are both ready to stand up and be counted among those who will vote and work for the federal suffrage amendment in the senate. When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president and congressional chairman, respectively, of the National American Woman Suffrage Association called at Senator Nugent’s office he told them; “It wiH not be necessary for the ladies to come to see me about suffarge. I am prepared to hang a card on my door announcing that I am a suffragist, always have been a suffragist, and am ready to vote for the federal amendment whenever it comes up. We have suffrage in Idaho, and everybody liked it.’

Senator Henderson wns equally emphatic. “Why, of course,” he said, “My wife and I have always been for suffrage. Nevada approves of suffrage, and anything I can do or say to help I stand ready to do. Of coure I shall vote for the federal amendment.” Suffragists consider that the prospects in the senate are most favorable, and that the amendment will pass by a good majority. Even senators of the opposition have declared that although they can not themselves vote for the amendment, they hope it will pass.