Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1920 — WATSON CONGRATULATED FOR HIS SUFFRAGE WORK [ARTICLE]

WATSON CONGRATULATED FOR HIS SUFFRAGE WORK

Indianapolis—(Special. — Senatoi James E Watson, who was chairman of the senate committee on woman suffrage, and succeeded in getting the bill acted on favorably within ten days after he took charge of the committee work, received a telegram of congratulation from Congressman Everett Sanders of the Fifth Indiana district, when the suffrage amendment was ratified by Tennessee. Sanders recalls the ardent support of the measure at the hands of Senator Watson and declares his championship of the bill in Congress had much to do with its success, after th resolution had failed of passage in the preceding democratic congress. Leadership Succeeded. “The country well recalls yoni ardent support of suffrage,” Sanders wired. “Particularly your gallant championship of the resolution submitting the amendment which passed the Republican senate during ths sixty-day congress, after the Democratic senate of the preceding congress had -voted It down. Despite the tremendous opposition of the Demo crats in the . senate your splendid leadership and tireless efforts as ehairman of the senate suffirage com mlttee bropght about the passage of the measure. It is a source of great pride that Indiana not only furnished yourself as leader but also, furnished a Republican delegation which voted solidly for the measure that gave women equal enfranchisement.”