Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1920 — FRIENDS AND FOES CLAIM SUFFRAGE BOUT [ARTICLE]

FRIENDS AND FOES CLAIM SUFFRAGE BOUT

Dover, Del., March 24.—Friends and foes of women suffrage claimed points, in today’s preliminary skirmishes in the legislature to make Delaware the T thirty-sixth State needed for ratification of the equal suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. Introduction today of ratification resolutions in both senate and house opened the actual struggle. Plans to delay a final vote until next: week were made by the suffragists ■while the opponents pressed for de-| cisive action on Friday. Both sides continued to be confident of the outcome and veteran suffragist campaigners Said the fight transcends that experienced in any other state. Conceding that at present sufficient votes were lacking in both bodies of the legislature to ratify the proposed constitutional amendment, the suffragists claimed several advantages in today’s proceedings.