The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-23
ARGUMENT FAVOR|NG
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
MISS GORDON OF NEW ORLEANS
DISCUSSES THE QUESTION OF
WOMANS' SUFFRAGE.

The district court room was crowd
ed to suffocaton last night to listen
to an address delivered by Miss Kate
Gordon of New Orleans, second vice
president of the National Womans'
Suffrage association, and for eight
years secretary of that organization,
The woman who led the fight that re-
suited in the cleaning up of New Or
leans, and whose efforts protected the
lives of thousands of children in that
city. Miss Gordon is a woman of
strong personality, pleasing of appear
ance, whose voice tempered with the
soft southern accent both charms and
holds attention, whose logic is ire
futable and who appeals for the
rights of women so strong, that many
in the audience last night who come
to scoff, remained to pray, and after
leaving the hall were heard to re-
mark that they would vote for wo-
man suffrage on the eighth day of No
vember
Miss Gordon was introduced by Hon.
A. c. Cruce, who took the stand and
made a clean confession as to his
conversion to the cause of womans
suffrage. He said that four years ago
it would have been useless for one to
ask him to preside at meeting of
this sort, but also stated that some |
thing had come over the spirit of his !
dreams in that time that caused a
change Of heart, and recounted several
instances that had wrought the trans
formation, among those the great girls |
shirt waist workers strike in New
York this year, Mr.. Cruces remarks |
were listened to with rapt attention,
and at the conclusion when he intro
duced Miss Gordon the audience burst
into thunderous applause.
Miss Gordon launched into the sub
ject Immediately and talked for thir-
ty-five minutes. She said that she had |
been in the state for two weeks do
ing campaign work at the invitation
of the state association. She said that
she felt particularly fitted to work
in this state, as she was a woman OF
the south, and her heart and sympa-
thies were with the women of the
south who We're struggling for politi-
cal emancipation. She told of the
$50 members of the Womans Suffrage
association in her native city, New
Orleans, and recited the fact that that
was a civic political force
in that city. She told the women
present that with the ballot in their
hands they could regulate the morals
of any municipality, increase the
wages of the working girls and women
and suppress the white slave traffic
She said that women were recognized
the world over as the intellectual
equal of man and his superior III Ilor-
ais, and defied every man to advance
a good reason why she should be de-
MED the ballot while she safeguarded
the home. She spoke of the liquor
traffic and said that there was not
of bootlegger in the Unit
I'd States but what would vote against
womans suffrage every time. She
said that the women of this nation
With the ballot in their hands would
this evil far more effectually
han has ever been done under mans
domination. She also criticized the ,
Ictions of some church people for not
aking more active parts in the sup
'ression of these evils and concluded
Ter lecture by asking the audience
( they wished to know the last rea-
on why women should be allowed