1913 Alaska. . . . . . . .  Do.  Norway. . . . . . . .  Do.  Illinois. . . . . . .  Suffrage for statutory officials (including presidential electors and municipal officers). 1914 Iceland . . . . . . .  Full suffrage.

In the United States the struggle for the franchise has entered national politics, a sure sign of its widening scope.  The demand for equal suffrage was embodied in the platform of the Progressive Party in August, 1912.  This marks an advance over Col.  Roosevelt’s earlier view, expressed in the Outlook of February 3, 1912, when he said:  “I believe in woman’s suffrage wherever the women want it.  Where they do not want it, the suffrage should not be forced upon them.”  When the new administration assumed office in March, 1913, the friends of suffrage worked to secure a constitutional amendment which should make votes for women universal in the United States.  The inauguration ceremonies were marred by an attack of hoodlums on the suffrage contingent of the parade.  Mr. Hobson in the House denounced the outrage and mentioned the case of a young lady, the daughter of one of his friends, who was insulted by a ruffian who climbed upon the float where she was.  Mr. Mann, the Republican minority leader, remarked in reply that her daughter ought to have been at home.  Commenting on this dialogue, Collier’s Weekly of April 5, 1913, recalled the boast inscribed by Rameses III of Egypt on his monuments, twelve hundred years before Christ:  “To unprotected women there is freedom to wander through the whole country wheresoever they list without apprehending danger.”  If one works this out chronologically, said the editor, Mr. Mann belongs somewhere back in the Stone Age.  In the Senate an active committee on woman suffrage was formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Thomas, of Colorado.  The vote on the proposed new amendment was taken in the Senate on March 19, 1914, and it was rejected,[428] 35 to 34, two-thirds being necessary before the measure could be submitted to the States for ratification.  In the House Mr. Underwood, Democratic minority leader, took the stand that suffrage was purely a State issue.  Mr. Heflin of Alabama was particularly vigorous in denunciation of votes for women.  He said[429]: 

“I do not believe that there is a red-blooded man in the world who in his heart really believes in woman suffrage.  I think that every man who favours it ought to be made to wear a dress.  Talk about taxation without representation!  Do you say that the young man who is of age does not represent his mother?  Do you say that the young man who pledges at the altar to love, cherish, and protect his wife, does not represent her and his children when he votes?  When the Christ of God came into this world to die for the sins of humanity, did he not die for all, males and females?  What sort of foolish stuff are you trying to inject into this tariff debate?...  There are trusts and monopolies of every kind, and these little feminine fellows are crawling around here talking about woman suffrage.  I have seen them here in this Capitol.  The suffragette and a little henpecked fellow crawling along beside her; that is her husband.  She is a suffragette, and he is a mortal suffering yet.”