The San Francisco call., 1896-11-05
CbRICATURED ON
A CLOTH SCREEN
Woman Suffragists Are
Grossly Ridiculed by
the Chronicle"
Advice to Voters to Oppose the
Sixth Amendment Pre-.
ceded.
LADIES WERE MUCH AMAZED
And Indignant Over the Unexpected
Course of Paper in Which
Some Had Trusted.

''There is not q California woman who
respects herself who will permit the
Chronicle to be brought into her home
again."
The speaker was Miss Susan B. An
thony. She had q good reason for making
the foregoing statement. Miss Anthony
has devoted many years to the cause of
woman suffrage. Resolute in purpose,
despite her many years she has during
the past few weeks toured California up
and down, east and west, riding on stages
and cars, campaigning in the open air and
in halls and from car platforms. She has,
in fact, devoted eight months continu-
ously, with other ladies prominent in the
National organization, to working zeal
ously for the woman-suffrage cause.
Two weeks ago yes, one week ago-the
ladies connected with the National organ
ization felt confident, from letters, inter-
views and from personal observations
made during their journey:ngs through
the State, that the outcome of the election
would be the investment of the women of
the State with the ballot. They had
counted on the friendly attitude of the
daily papers which have subscribers in
thousands of homes, and were especially
encouraged by the strong position taken
by THE CALL in favor of the cause of
woman suffrage, to which it has consist
emily and steadily adhered, and particu-
larly by the action of the Republican
State Central Committee.
The surprise of the thousands of ladies
enlisted in the cause can hardly be imag-
ined when on Monday of the present week
and again on Tuesday, the repetition show
ing that the Chronicle had adopted that
course deliberately, there appeared in
large and conspicuous black type in the
Chronicle advice to all voters to oppose
the sixth amendment to the constitution.
Vote no. said the Chronicle on Monday
and agGin on Tuesday, and this advice
was scattered about the State as much as
the circulation of the paper would permit,
SO that all the harm was done that the
Chronicle was capable of doing.
The ladies took the matter much to
heart. So did their brothers, fathers and
husbands and friends generally. Hardly
had the edition of the Chronicle OF Mon
day been passed from hand to hand at the
breakfast tables and commented upon in
offices and other places of business when
an Indignation meeting was under way in
every place where woman srffragists re-
side. The publication on Tuesday in
creased this indignation very perceptibly
and had a disastrous effect upon the cir
culation of the offensive sheet. For many
hours the business Office had all it could
do marking up "stops" on the subscrip-
ton list. Ladies visited the Chronicle
Office and gave their address and left no
question remaining in the minds of the
business Office force concerning their mo-
tive. They explained clearly and with
emphasis that they could no longer patron
ize or encourage g paper which would take
such course.
But this was not all. When the stereop-
ticon man who threw pictures on a screen
in front of the Chronicle Office Tuesday
night, while the Chronicle was waiting to
get out some figures concerning the elec-
ton, got in his work. there was supplied
to him from the Chronicle office par
ticularly malicious "slide" upon which
every woman who favors woman suffrage.
and also every voter who believes in CIV
ing the vote to women, was held up to
ridicule before crowd of large size. This
slide represented vrago of Amazonian
proportions menacing very small and
woe-begone man with stick or club. Un-
derneath the picture, as 1t appeared on
the screen were the words, "This is the
kind of man who votes for woman suf-
frage."
The intent was plain. The purpose OF
the Chronicle was to make it appear that
the ladies were engaged in buIldozing
voters, and when this news was spread the
resentment of the ladies increased These
facts furnish the reason for Miss Susan B.
Anthony's utterance.
There is not a California woman who
respects herself who will permit the
Chronicle to be brought into her home
ag ain"
Miss Anthony had heard about the car
feature with which the Chronicle, at the
close of a campaign hard fought by the
woman suffragists, had seen tit to add
gratuitous insult to gratuitous injury, and
she seemed to be fairly amazed, for that
was the first insult that had been offered
to the ladies. The public manner in
which it was offered only emphasized the
intent back of it.
Rev. Anna Shaw was not less outspoker
than Miss Anthony. 81 consider that the
action of the Chronicle said Miss Shaw.