New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1916, Page 9

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 19 16. SAVE MONEY AND SAVE PATIENCE Buy a Gas Range We Have Them to Fit Any Kitchen, Large or Small New Britain Gas Light Co. 25 West Main Street SUFFRAGE WINS IN LONG BATTLE Plank Favored by Wilson Remains| In Democratic Platform 8t. Louis, June 17.—The democratic | national convention finished its work yesterday by adopting the party plat- form exactly as approved by President Wilson and submitted by the resolu- tions committee, including the plank o Americanism and that favoring wo- man suffrage, but not until the har- mony of its three days’ sessions had been disturbed with a row over the sufirage plank. -No voice was raised against the vigorous declarations of the Americanism plank, but at one time it looked as if the suffrage rlank Bad been lost. After Senator Walsh of Montana had told the convention that President Wilson himself consid- it vital to party success, however, it voted into the platform by a fallot of 888% to 181%. The entire platform then was adopted without roll call. As it went into suffrage plank n “We favor the extension of the franchise to the wo- men of this country, sta the platform the woman suffrage leaders considéred it a much more than they got convention at their force favorable declaration from the republican hicago; they threw all behind it, and won the support of the administration leaders WwhHo were found fighting for them When danger threatened. Lomasney Starts Something. The fight on the suff o the air. Everybody keyed up fo it and when, at the conclusion «f the reading of the platform, Martin Lomasney of Boston, a delegate, Gaimed the attention of the chair, it Wwas thought he was opening the fight and it was several minutes before the shouts of approval and cries of disap- proval could be stilled sufficiently to hear that he wantéd to put the con- vention on record as blank was sympathizing )y state, on { suffrage the same terms as to the men!” The |votes in the electoral college. with the people of Ireland.” “Raus roared a delegate from Bal- The real fight broke immediately after, however, when Gov. Ferguson of Texas, who headed the minority re- port against the administration plank was given thirty minutes in which to present it. The plank offered by the minority was: “The democratic party always has stood for the sovereign- ty of the several states in the control and regulations of elections. We reaf- firm the historic position of our party in this regard and favor the contin- uance of that wise provision of the federal constitution which vests in the everal states of thie Union the power to prescribe the qualifications of their electors.”” The burden of Gov. Fergu- son’s argument was that suffrage be- ing purely a state’s rights question, the wording of the majority plank was a presumptuous recommendation to the | states on how to conduct their electo- rates. President Favors Plank, In an impatient Wa swept aside the smaller ques- tions which had injected into the fight, and told the delegates ‘hat President Wilson himself the plank was in the platform and consid- it “Whatever your opinions may be,” he said, “we shall never be anything but a discordant and divided party uniess we surrender some of our convic- tions to the wisdom of a majority. Here you are confronted as one of our famous leaders said, ‘with a con- dition, not a theory.’ The twelve states represent ninety-one Every political party has made this declara- tion in some form or other. It becomes a simple question of whether you will incur the enmity of these women. There is no possibility of losing a single vote if you adopt this major- ity plank, because every other party has done the same. “I ask you,” he cried, ‘if you're go- ing to put a resolution in here that's a lie. You can’t adopt this minority report without stulifying yourselve: Senator Walsh then explained that the president knew about the suffrage plank, and adde ““He believes it vi- tal to his success that it stay there. I ask you with all the fervor of my be- ing, who is there here who is wiser or more patriotic than he?” While the fight had been going on, a thunderstorm burst, and when the row on the convention floor was at its height the storm reached its c The booming of the thunder, m 2d with the roaring shouts on the floor and the clatter caused by the rain on the roof, almost drowned out the speakers. The storm cleared just as Senator Walsh finished speaking, and speech Senator been knew ered it essential for party victory. the closing words of his plea for the administration plank swept a change of sentiment over the crowd as w come to the suffragists as the wave of cool, refreshing air that poured down into the Coliseum. MAY HOLD FAIR. 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