Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1920 — SUFFRAGE IS AGAIN BAFFLED [ARTICLE]

SUFFRAGE IS AGAIN BAFFLED

DELEWARE FAILS TO RATIFY—ANOTHER STATE STILL NEEDED TO GIVE WOMEN VOTE Dover, Del;, June 2.-—Despite the appeal of President Wilson and other national democratic and republican leaders for the .ratification of the woman suffrage federal amendment, the Delaware legislature adjourned sine die today with the ratification resolution still in the house committee of the whole to which it was referred last Friday. Shortly before adjournment a motion by Representative Lyons, majority" floor leader, to force th 4 house into committe of the *hole to consider the resolution was defeated, 24 to 10. Whep the vote was announced antisuffrage leaders started a demonstration. The legislature was called in special session by Governor Townsend March 22 to ratify the suffrage amendment, • which action would have given the women of the nation the right to vote. There were many spirited contests during the ten weeks that the fight lasted.