The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-26
SUFFRACISTS IN
SESSION
New Jersey Association for
the Advance Of Woman's
Rights Meets at Ocean
Grove.
TWO MALE ADHEREATs
Pleas for the Privilege of vot-
ing Made by Prominent
Feminine Champions.

OCEAN GROVE, July 26. 1905.-
The New Jersey Woman Suffrage AS
sociatlon, which began its opening ses-
sion in the Young Peoples temple late
Monday afternoon, concluded its confer
ence yesterday morning with sympos-
ium on woman suffrage. The subject for
discussion. at the initial meeting as an
nounced in the official programme. was
What Can Women Do to Improve MI
nicipal Conditions?''
The State president, Mrs. Minola
Graham Sexton, of Orange, presided.
She announced as the first feature of the
programme. the singing of America"
Rev. DIR. Ballard, vice-president Of the
Ocean Grove Campmeeting Association.
offered brief prayer, followed by corr
dial address of welcome, in which he ex-
pressed himself as being I'M hearty SYM
pathy with the object of the woman suf-
lFdSS OFSdIilZdtlOH
Mrs. Anna Jackson. of the Woman's
Municipal League of New York city. was
the next speaker, and she briefly outlined
the work of that body. telling of the eal-
ployment of police matrons and other re-
forms the league has helped to bring
about
Rev. J. L. Surtees. Of the Municipal
League of Manasquan, followed in
brief address.
The president then introduced Mrs.
Catherine b. Lippincott, of the Mooores-
town, n j.. Village Improvement So
ciety, and vice president of the State
| Suffrage association. She told how the
women had successfully struggled for
better sanitation. pure water and good
| sidewalks Also their work of beautify-
| ing the town by protecting and planting
shade trees, and how through the schools
| they had interested the poorer classes
| in the cultivation of flowers
Mrs. E. v. Grice, for many years a
resident of Riverton, who is vice presi-
dent Of the National Congress of Moth
ers. spoke of woman's possibilities in re-
lation to the schools
Mrs. A. J. Newbury, president of the
State Federation of Wonen's clubs,
made most eloquent address along the
same lines. closing with strong plea for
the study of the Bible as literature in the
public schools.
/ e. Tennyson Smith, of England, pop
! ular temperance speaker, asked for the
privilege of the fooor and was invited by
| the president to the platform, where he
warmly espoused the cause of woman
suffrage.
The dean of Swarthmore College. Mrs.
| Powell Bond. was the last speaker of the
afternoon and, as her admirers put it,
her quiet logical reasoning in favor Of
the franchise was most convincing.
But the speech Of the afternoon was
made by a member of the Political Study
/ Club of Short Hills. Mrs. A. w. Kings
bury She said in part
II did not realize when twenty years
/ ago / went forth bride from dear olS
|
New Jersey that | was going away, not
to be missionary TO the people of the
west. but to learn lessons there that
would come back and impart to the great
| army Of women still in slavery here in
the east. do not come to you to-day as
a political leader. a great reformer OF
municipal reforms as sa wthem carried
on where women hold the power to vote
/ My home was at Evanston, Wyo. eight
miles from the border of Utah. During
the seven years of my stay there | saw
wondrous things accomplished because
women could vote.
.You who have worked here know
how every great work must be by peti
tion. and then beg. plead and almost
| bribe man to do the real work you can
not do, for you know always they will
tell you one mans name counts more
than all the many women you may get
But when you are equal in state rights
with any man you can carry on these re
forms yourself and | want to tel yor
one instance in my own life.
Ever since Wyoming has become !
1 territor there was laay on the statute
books that saloons should be closed IN
/ til II o'clock only sundays. 70 this lar
the saloopkeepsr and drinker made ns