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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 29, 1920
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NOPMlUMPH
Women Declared Under
Partisan Obligation.
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TWO ISSUES OUTSTANDING
Kew Voters, More Than Men, for
Ijeague, Says Sullivan, and Equal
ly Strong for Prohibition.
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.
fCopyrlsht by the New York Evenlne Post.
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. (Special.)
So many extravagant claims for
credit for woman suffrage and so
many equally extravagant predictions
as to its results are being- made by
partisans that It is worth while to
look into this sub-ject from the point
f view of the independent voter.
Both the candidates for president
nd also large numbers of partisan
leaders, partisan politicians and par
tisan newspapers have tendered their
congratulations to the women, each
adding unctuously that he is happy
to feel that It was his party that
made the thing possible.
The truth about it is that the wom
en don't owe this victory to either
party. They owe It to themselves.
The women know this perfectly well.
I have talked, during the last two or
three months, with scores of the
women who have led this fight, and
while they are perfectly willing to
smile and politely conceal their real
feelings when the men politicians
congratulate them, they all under
stand, and in private conversation
say, that they don't owe any
thing to either party and don't pro
pose to act as if they did.
Women Are for League.
Of course, if you go back into It
imply as a matter of historical in
terest, something can be said.
It is true that during the last half
year or so the democratic party has
gone the limit in trying to bring
woman saifffage about and in other
vise trying to commend itself to the
women. One reason I think is that
the democrats have long anticipated
that the league of nations was going
to be an issue in this campaign, and
they believed that with the women
Votfhg they would get a better break
on this issue than the republicans.
In this they are undoubtedly correct.
More women favor a league of na
tions than oppose it, and there are
more women who favor a league of
cations than men who favor it.
Another factor in the extraordinary
deference the democrats have been
paying to the women was in the per
sonality of the recent democratic
chairman. Homer S. Cummings.
Camming Win Women.
Mr. Cummings really believes In the
league of nations believes in it with
his heart In the way Wilson believes
In it. Mr. Cummings also believes In
woman suffrage. The way the demo
cratic national committee under Mr.
Cummings' leadership exerted itself
In the matter of courtesy toward the
women at the San Francisco conven
tion, and on other occasions recently;
caused some of the more old-fashioned
politicians in the party to feel
a disapproval which they didn't quite
dare express.
The democratic national committee
at San Francisco adopted and put
into effect a resolution providing that
hereafter each state shall have one
woman member in addition to the one
existing male member. The member
ship of the committee was doubled.
In contrast, the republican national
committee, when it met in June, was
only willing to give the women a
representation of about one woman to
each ten men. Moreover, the repub
licans went about it so grudgingly,
and the distaste of the republican
party officials for making any con
cession at all was so apparent that
the women who had been negotiating
with them aren't apt to feel any grat
itude toward the officials of that
party.
Credit Due Republicans.
So much for the past few months.
But if you go back a litle farther
there can be no question as a matter
of history that the republican party,
as a whole, and those states in which
the republican party is usually domi
nant, have been the ones that are
really responsible for the passage of
the suffrage amendment.
Kverybody knows that the demo
cratic party in the south faces con
ditions which cause it to be pre
disposed rather toward limiting suf
frage than extjuidina it,
Kverybody Mows why this is so,
and every fair-minded person sym
pathizes with the position in which
he democratic party Tind3 itself in
the south. But that the democratic
party, as a result of this condition,
has Its mind turned away from any
thought of increasing the number of
voters, there can be no doubt what
ever.
Southern Situation Clear.
The fact is that seven of the eight
states in which the amendment has
been submitted and defeated have
been below the Mason and Dixon line.
Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Mary
land and Delaware are the only states
that refused to ratify. Kverybody un
derstands that this condition, if seen
truly as a matter of the history of
how it came about long ago, is the
misfortune of the democratic party
and the fault of the republican party.
But that fact isn't going to prevent
the republicans from making as much
political capital out of it as they
can.
However, the Interest in this is
chiefly historical. All these theories
to the effect that the women are go
ing to vote democratic because of
gratitude to Tennessee, or that they
art going to vote republican through
grttltude because the bulk of the
states that gave suffrage its mo
xnentum were republican, is nonsense.
I think it is true that the vote ot
the women this fall will distribute
itself between the two parties, in a
slighly different proportion from the
vote of the men. But the reason will
not have anything to do with gratl
tude. or with anything in the Dast
The reason will be because of the way
the parties happen to be lined up on
the issues especially two of the is
sues, and the way the women happen
to reel toward the personalities o
the two candidates as those person
a'.itles emerge during the campaign.
Women probably will always vote a
l.ttle more on the basis of the candi
dates personality than men will.
Two Isaacs Important.
But most of all the women voters
this fall will be pretty sure to take
account of two issues that are going
,10 figure in the campaign. One of
these is the league of nations.
The women on the whole will tend
to favor that party which seems to
hold out the most sincere promise for
the limitation of war. Any politician
who fails to realize that the worn-)
a are Keenly interested in the pre
vention or limitation of wars is due i
fcr a bump. - . j
Ot course, it may be that before the
election comes, for reasons that will
develop later, this tssue will not look,
ac between the two parties, quite the
same as r does now. .
By November 3 the democrats may
not seem to have the monopoly which
at this writing they unquestionably
have, an organized effort to prevent
or limit war, as an issue in this cam
paign. It is inconceivable that the
republicans should continue to permit
the democrats to have their present
monoply of the idealistic side of this
issue. Moreover, your correspondent
is aware of concrete developments
now under way which will make the
relative positions of the democrats
ana republicans on the Issue of or
ganized effort against war seem dif
ferent from what they now are.
Prohibition Also Factor.
The other issue which will appeal
to the women voters and which will
play a larger part in the campaign
as it goes on, is prohibition. Any
one with the faintest capacity for ob
servation knows that women are more.
strongly opposed to liquor than men.
Women will be moved to take the
Initiative to leave their homes and
go out and vote by so concrete and
obvious a moral .issue as this is. to
a greater degree than they could be
moved by any other consideration
whatever.
Up to now this "wet" versus "dry"
issue has emerged only locally. In
the east the campaign has not so
far been discussed in terms of this
issue. But in the west and north
west the attitude of the two parties
toward prohibition is right now Just
as big an issue as the league of na
tions. A little later on it will be rec
ognized all over the country as a
leading Issue. And unless Cox does
something definite in the way of
separating himself from those in
fluences which were, chiefly instru
mental in nominating him, then the
democrats on election day will b
universally recognized to be on the
"wet" side of this issue.
Ultimate Results Hasy.
So much for woman suffrage as it
affects the immediate future. But.
measured in terms of decades, that
doubling the number of voters and
giving to women -as large a direct
power In organized society as to man
is part of an immensely important
trend in evolution can only be
doubted by those whose education
has not prepared them to think in
terms of decades. The ultimate result
may not be clear, but no one can
doubt that it w'll be far-reaching.
Governor Cox's declaration when he
heard the news from Tennessee that
"the civilization of the world is
saved" was, of course, merely the ex
travagance of a candidate who is a
little over-excited by the conditions
of the campaign. But that the recent
adoption of woman suffrage and all
that goes with it is a landmark at
which civilization takes a slightly
different turn, no thoughtful person
will dispute.
There is one thing that makes all
of us curious who move about in the
circles where practical politics is
played. What will the women do
with their new-found official posi
tions in political organization
I have said that the democratic na
tional committee, for example, is
suing to nave exactly as many women
members as men members. What we
all wonder is, how is this going to
work out? Will the women who
come on the committee try to exert
as much power, individually and col-
lne men? will they be
really effective members, who will
argue and fight and plot and pull
wires and make deals and occasional
ly double-cross each other as the
men do? Or will they be merely mem
bers by courtesy, never quite know-
ng just What Is goincr on anrl con
tent with the deference of exag
gerated politeness from the men ns a
substitute for real, power?
Some Men Will Pall Oat. '
One thing is sure if the women
really determine to "sit in" the game.
eacn to the lull extent of her per
sonality, there will be a conspicuous
exodus of some of the men, who are
now high in power in the committee.
As one of these men expressed it.
'you can't do business with a woman
the same as you can with a man.
You can fight with a man and call
him hard names and be called stiU
harder names yourself, and the next
day you shake hands and its all right.
out you can t have that kind of rela
tion with a woman."
Will there ever be women ooliti-
cians on the national committees who
will have the same relative Dosition
and power that men like "Tobe" Hert
and Joe Kealing and Ed Moore have?
ho far as I have become acauainted
with the women who now are seen
at national committee meetings of
both parties and whose names get
into me newspapers, l have met but
one who really seemed to me to have
tne political gift. I use "noimpI
gift" in the narVower sense, meaning
tne capacity to .lead men and other
women to do her way and manaerlns:
it in suL-n a way as to keep everybody
good natured. As a matter of fact,
a good many of the women who have
so far become prominent in politics
nave tne airect opposite of this
quality. Thev are storm renter. r
uicKering ana ill feeling.
in tne larger sense of beine- sensi
tive to currents of public feeling and
knowing how to start them and take
advantage or tnem, I know several
01 tnese women politicians whnc
ntuiuve Knowledge of Dublin onininn
in the mass ia greater than that of
most politicians of the male sex.
Seattle Auto Accident Fatal.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 2. Drivlne-
head-on into a street car with his
automobile, W. Rutledge. Seattle, was
instantly Killed last night. Rutledge
was sa.ia Dy ponce to nave been driv
mis ii 6f"i Bpeea wnen nis car
swervea ana struck the street car.
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OREG0N1AN MAKES GOOD
CLYDE B. AITOHISON BIG FIG
URE IX WASHIXGTOX.
One Term Served as Chairman of
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OREGONIAN NEWS" BUREAU.
Washington, Aug. 28. Among: the
Oregonians who are making good In
Washington is Clyde B. Aitchlson.
member of the interstate commerce
commission.
Mr. Aitchlson has become an out
standing figure in this body, which
possesses and is exercising powers
beyond the fondest dreams of the
rate-making advocate of 1906. When
this Interstate controlling Doay was
created, after the prolonged and bril
liant debate in the congress of 1005
1906. and carrying a nervous shock
to private capital throughout the na
tion at that time, it was little
dreamed that within 15 years the
commission would be hailed by the
railways themselves as one of their
bulwarks against government opera
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No one could have forecast that
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In all this great work the former
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a very valuable and able official. He
has served as chairman of the com
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GASOLINE DEMAND GROWS
Production Increases 13 Per Cent
and Consumption 32.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Although
production of gasoline for the first
six months this year was 13 per cent
greater than for the same period of
1919, the increase in consumption was
32 per cent, it was reported today by
the bureau of mines.
Gasoline stocks at the end of June
were 89,841.000 gallons, or 15 per cent
less than the amount on hand on
June 30, 1919.
Armory Project 'Urged.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. Aug. 28. (Spe
cial.) Charged with a mission to
leach a definite understanding with
Adjutant-General Maurice Thompson
as to the practicability of carrying on
the Aberdeen armory project, J. J.
Carney, president of the Aberdeen
chamber of commerce, left yesterday
for Seattle. Mr. Carney takes with
him plans for formation of either
hospital or an artillery unit here In
compliance with government regula
tions applying to construction of
armory buildings. New rulings, it is
believed, will make building "of the
armory possible now.
GEORGE MESSENGER DIES
Department Head ot Llpman, Wolfe
& Co. Passes at Seaside.
ASTORIA Or., Aug. 28. (Special.)
George Messenger of Portland died
early this morning at Seaside as the
result of heart trouble. Mr. Mes
senger waa a department manager at
the Llpman, Wolfe & Co. store. He
Was a native of St. Louis, Mo., 65
years old, and is survived by a widow,
two sons and one daughter. The
body was sent to Portland tonight for
interment.
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