The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-09-15
A SECOND TICKET ASSURED
THE OPPOSITION no MISS IVES
CRYST1LIZING.

Publication-The Last Day for Women
to Register-Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton Meet Tomorrow Afternoon.
This is the last day that the law al
lows for the registration of female vot-
ers for the purpose of exercising the
right of franchise at the school cleo
ton next Monday, Two hundred and
tWenty-six had registered up to 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon. To-day it
Is expected by the managers of the
Woman's Suffrage association that
more than 200 will register.
The controversy that has been going
on between the friends of Miss Ives
and those of Colonel William e. Nor
gan grows warmer with each day and
it is now certain that second ticket
VIII be placed in the field. There may
be three new men placed on this ticket,
but it is now expected that Messrs
Belts and Moran will be named and a
third man. Who the third man will be
has not developed, but now that the
opposition to Miss Ives has become
convinced that they can win, the
strongest man that can be prevailed
upon to accept the place will be named
AS to the controversy between Colonel
Morgan and Miss Ives, the following
statements are made:
Mr.. Morgan says:
Il never expected to cause SO much
excitement by my little speech to the
members of the board, but there had
been numerous statements going about
in the newspapers to the effect that
had Withdrawn in Miss Ives favor,
and | wanted to set myself right about
it. told them I had not done so and
l also said that considering the pros
poets of the new board 1 was glad
was not going to serve again and
meant what l said; for 1 did not retire
in Miss Ives favor and / am opposed
to women on the school board.
THE facts are simply these: Miss
Ives drove down here to the office one
day and asked me if I intended to run
for another term on the board. / told
her that | had served three years, l was
not anxious to serve again and was
willing to drop out and let somebody
else take hand at managing the dis
trictS affairs. She then went on to
say that she was from Fair Haven and
asked me that inasmuch as I was from
there also would I retire in her favor.
Ireplied that could not say anything
about that; that I had no power to
name my successor or words to that
effect. We had some little conversa-
ton further and she drove away. had
never seen her before and haven't seen
her since.
1T appears ridiculous on the face of
bot oh i,, o1xyte 20
vor. The place isn't mine, to choose
my successor. That is for the voters Of
the district. Furthermore, i don't think
thesboard is any place for any woman
The men have been managing the
schools satisfactorily. The finance com
mittee has given the taxpayers an adj
equate statement of the condition of
the districts finances for the last three
years. which had not been done before,
and has the financial condition of the
district in the best possible shape.
know of no way that woman could
improve things there. Take the com
mittee on schools. 1t has adopted the
plan of leaving all nominations to the
superintendent, and the board holds
him personally responsible for the char
acter of the work done. A woman is
not needed on this committee; in fact,
she would probably have the teachers
running to her continually with this
and that, and it would cause trouble,
and the superintendent would be ham
pered. What benefit could a woman be
on the committee on supplies? In fact,
take the list of all our committees and
! can only think of the high school
committee where there would be any
place for a woman, and I am in doubt
about that.
Then, another thing. If Miss Ives
is elected that will be only an enter
ing wedge Next year the women will
want another representative, and next
year another, until three women have
places on the board Now the women
would not allow three women of the
same religious denomination on the
board. In time there would be Prot
testant, Catholic and a Hebrew wo-
man on the board.
1.-THE board of education, as at pres
ent constituted, has representatives of
all these religions in it, but never in
all my connection with the board have
/ ever heard a teachers religion re-
ferred to-, nor the subject discussed in
any way. Religion and politics have
been kept out of the board. But three
women could not keep religion out of
the board, and then this district would
have all the trouble it wanted, and
more, too.
~ have said l was going to retire,
and I am going to stick to it. ! am not
a candidate, but expect to see man
named in Miss Ives place. / think
Samuel A. Avis would consent to run
for another term. He could have been
reelected last year had he started ear
ly enough and not been tangled up with
the womens ticket. But whatever
man is put up will be elected, sure"
Miss Ives said that she regretted that
there had been any controversy over
Mr.. Morgan's statement, and she had
not intended to stir up any unfriendly
feeling. She thought her remark to
the effect that Mr.. Morgan's statement
was beneath her notice had been per-
haps a little too severe She said she
went to Mr. Morgan, and as a result
of their conversation she got the en-
phatic impression that he was not go
ing to run again, and that he was glad
Fair Haven was going to be represent
ed by her candidacy. She says that
Mr.. Morgan made this assertion:
81 want to get off the board OF edu-
cation
ST want tn oct on was Miss Ives