Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — G. O. P. PROUD OF RECORD [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. PROUD OF RECORD

TWENTY-NINE REPUBLICAN STATES ON HONOR ROLL FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. If the women of this country are to be given the ballot at the general election to be held on November 2, they will have the Republican party to thank for the privilege. Twenty-nine Republican states have ratified the nineteenth amendment to the national constitution, giving to women the right of suffrage, while but one Republican state has refused to ratify. How different the record of the Democratic states, most of which are located in the southern part of the country. Seven Democratic states have rejected the nineteenth amendment and but six Democratic states have ratified it. If Tennessee or North Carolina will ratify the proposed amendment and furnish the needed thirty-sixth state, the honor roll will stand twenty-nine Republican, and seven Democratic states. And that is not all, it took a Republican senate to get the proper resolution passed by that body and after the senate which had been Democratic had refused to pass the resolution, the senate in July, 1919, having a Republican majority in the upper branch of the national law making body, the resolution was passed with thirtysiv Republicans and only twenty Democrats voting for it. The senate at that time had but two more Republican than Democratic members. The Republican party has a right to be proud of its record on this important issue and will undoubtedly be rewarded by the women of the country if permitted to vote in November.