Washington (Special)—North Carolina congressmen stood out
against woman’s suffrage.
Representative Weaver of the Asheville district voted
for the resolution to submit the constitutional amendment. Representatives
Small, Kitchin, Brinson, Pou, Stedman, Godwin, Robson, Dougherty and Webb voted
against it.
Messrs. Small and Kitchen lifted their voices in protest.
Mr. Weaver was the only member who voted for suffrage before.
“The Republican party,” said Mr. Kitchen, “was in control of
all branches of the government for years, and yet they never allowed the Susan
B. Anthony amendment, which has been before Congress for 60 years, a chance to
get a hearing. The women found that they could not get the Republicans to
submit the proposition even to a committee. It remained for a Democratic house
and a Democratic rules committee to give it to them.
“I want to congratulate Mr. Mann on the change of attitude
he has assumed,” concluded Mr. Kitchen. He was referring to the good-natured
gaffing that the opposition turned at the former Republican leader because in a
house debate in 1913, following alleged insults to a young lady in a parade on
Pennsylvania avenue, he had said she ought to have been at home.
Mr. Small said he was not altogether opposed to woman
suffrage and had no objection to any citizen advocating it in any state. “I had
the honor,” he said, “of writing to a member of the legislature of my state
recently urging that a limited degree of suffrage be adopted there as an
experiment.”
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