Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — PARTY SUFFRAGE RECORDS [ARTICLE]

PARTY SUFFRAGE RECORDS

Only Democratic Congressmen Appealed for Action. Congressman C. C. Dill, of Washington, cites the records of the committee hearings on suffrage in Congress to prove that “the only Congressmen who have gone before the Judiciary Committee of Congress this year to ask that a suffrage amendment be voted upon have been Democratic members.” He adds that “no others have appeared to ask for consideration of the measure. That is, I think, sufficient answer to any claim that the Democratic Party opposed Woman Suffrage.” This record need only bfe supplemented with the personal voting history of the rival Presidential candidates to show who is the real friend of suffrage. President Wilson made two trips from Washington to New Jersey to register and vote for Woman Suffrage when it was submitted in his State. Candidate Hughes did not take the trouble to register or to vote the same year—l9ls—when the suffrage amendment was submitted in his 7tete.