WOMAN FRANCHISE FOR AMERICA.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170302, 23 August 1920, Page 7

WOMAN FRANCHISE FOR AMERICA.

NEW 7 ELEMENT IN ELECTIONS. POLITICAL LEADERS AT SEA. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Auitraiian and N.Z. Oahla Aatu. WASHINGTON. Aug. 19. Unless the Tennessee Lower House to-morrow rescinds to-day's adoption by a majority of two, a Bill legalising Woman suffrage, the State will become the. needed thirty-sixth to carry the constitutional amendment, which moans that seventeen million women in non-suffrage States will vote at the Presidential elections in November. Received 5.5. p.m.. August 20. NEW YORK, Aug. IS. The New- York "Times" Nashville correspondent states that Tennessee has ratified the "suffrage amendment, thus enfranchising 2*5,000,000 women in the United States. j NEW YORK, Aug. 19. The New York' "Evening Sun's" Washington correspondent says that the enfranchisement of women of voting age is expected to bring a new element of doubt into the Presidential elections. There is still a slight chance that Tennessee's vote may be reconsidered, but this is not expected to occur. It is said that the political leaders are completely at sea regarding the action the women will take over the liquor question and the League of Nations. It is pointed out that it will be difficult to organise women, and although more than 19,000,000 women had the right to vote in many States previously many of these did not take an important part, in politics. Republicans and Democrats are taking steps to canvass the situation and make a special appeal to the new voters. Tennessee is the thirty-sixth State to ratify women suffrage, by a vote of 50 to <J6, making the amendment part of the basic law of the United States.