ffrage amendment was not brought to a vote in
the House until after we went to the West.

Mr. Taggart. You tried to defeat the man in the House who
presented this resolution which you are having hearings for, did
you not?

Miss Paul. What we did was to go to the Rules Committee, a
Democratic committee, to ask that this measure be reported out
and brought to a vote; when the committee had refused to do this
we went out into the suffrage States of the West and told the
women voters how the bill was being blocked at Washington. As
soon as we did that they stopped blocking and the bill was
brought up before the House for the first time in history.

Mr. Taggart. That was after the election?

Miss Paul. Yes.

Mr. Taggart. You are aware that more Democrats voted for it than
men of any other party?

Miss Paul. We are aware that the Democrats met in caucus and
decided that woman suffrage should not be brought up in the House
and after we went out into the West they brought it up. We went
out to tell the women voters about the way some of their
Representatives were treating the matter.

Mr. Taggart. And with this result--that in the suffrage State of
Colorado Senator Thomas, a Democrat, was re-elected to succeed
himself; in the suffrage State of Arizona, Senator Smith, a
Democrat, was re-elected to succeed himself; in the suffrage
State of California a Democrat was elected to succeed a
Republican; in the suffrage State of Washington the House was
reinforced by one Democrat, and in the suffrage State of Utah and
in the suffrage State of Kansas Democrats were elected to
reinforce the party. One Democrat only, Mr. Seldomridge of
Colorado, was defeated, for the reason, he says, that his
district has been gerrymandered; nevertheless, he came and voted
for the amendment on the floor of the House. Why should you take
such an interest in defeating Democratic Congressmen and
Senators?

Miss Paul persisted that all the favorable action taken by Congress
after the election of 1914 was because they campaigned against the
Democrats, ignoring the fact that Nevada and Montana had enfranchised
their women at that election and public sentiment was veering so
rapidly in favor of woman suffrage as to compel both parties to regard
it as a political issue. After the openin