Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1920 — DELEWARE MAY CLINCH SUFFRAGE [ARTICLE]

DELEWARE MAY CLINCH SUFFRAGE

(By the Associated Pres.) Dover, Del., May ,5. —Suffrage was revived in Deleware today when the state senate passed a ratification bill 11 to 6. After rejecting a substitute offered by Senator Gormley, democrat, of Wilmington, providing for a referedum at the next election on the subject, the senate adopted the resolution of Senator Walker, republican, of Newcastle ccounty, ratifying the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment. , Senator Brown and Palmer, both of Sussex county, were the only republicans who voted against ratification while Senator Price, of Kent county, was the only democrat tb support the resolution. There was a big demonstration by suffragists in the senate chamber following the announcement of the vote.