Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1920 — WOMEN ARE NOT SATISFIED [ARTICLE]

WOMEN ARE NOT SATISFIED

National Party Demand* More Positive Action by Harding. Marlon, 0., July 25.—Representatives of the national Woman’s party who called on Senator Harding yesterday for add In completing ratification of the suffrage amendment, announced that they were not satisfied witty hjs reply, and would continue their demand that he take more direct action. “Suffragists can feel only dissatisfaction,” said Alice Paul, head of the party, “with Senator Harding’s refusal in his reply to the Woman's party delegation, and in his acceptance sp*«ch, to take a positive stand for the carrying out of the suffrage plank in the Republican platform. “If Senator Harding refuses to live up to the suffrage plank and contents himself merely with ‘earnestly hoping 1 and ‘sincerely desiring,’ how can he expect the country to take seriousfly the other planks in his platform? “The national Woman’s party will continue to demand that Senator Harding carry out his platform by securing a unanimous vote in/ support of ratification from’ the Republican delegation in the Tennessee legislature when it meets next month.”