The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-18
Suffrage L ca d er Adj
dressesLargeAudience
Of Richmonders.
RAPS COLON Ell,
TAFT AND OTHERS
Says Roosevelt Used Language
of Ward Heeler, and That Taft
"Flopped and Floundercd" in
Address-Magazine Writer'S
Enrolled in Ananias
I.9s Club.

With humor as delicious az IL was
skilful. with satire as gentle as Ii " as
effective, and with logic which seem
ed to be successful with her audience.
whether or not it was the result OF a
view through but one pair of spec
tacles. Rev Anna Howard Shaw, ID. ID /,
last night addressed large audience
at the Jefferson Auditorium. She was
heard with the utmost attention, was
greeted with meritcd applause, and
was very evidently in the house OF her
friends.
Several incidental digs at the col
onei." an allusion to President Taft
which did not indicate profound re-
spect for the view2 or that dignitary
and general dismissal ofa well -kno wi,
woman magazine were features OF the
address which pleased the audience
AS TO recent writer in the womans
paper referred to, he qualified for the
Anantas Club without a suggestion oil
biackbal
Writers Cnstisnted.
Inasmuch as DIR. Shaw spoke IN
Richmond not long since and then
presented her views 0S womssn's sut-
frage. she devoted most of her a.ten-
tion last night tt' two articles on Gae
opposite side of the question which,
nave recently found their way into the,
magazines. Had either of the authors
been present. he or she would have
been utterly crumpled, wiited. '.fraz-
zled." to use word famous as coming
from one whom DR.. Shaw apparently
little admires For they were visited
with the shafts of humor and of rtdi-
cuie which Or. shaw knows so wsK
how 10 employ
The President got his In thlg wise.
a writer named Miss Sewtdl hns writ
ten an article for a monthly periodi-
cal, In which she visits criticism on
the National Woman Suffrage Assocta-.
tion for kissing Mr.. Taft while he was
making calm and dignifed address
before that body. Now said DIR.
Shaw. "Mr. Tafts remarks were
neither calm nor dignificd. He classed
US with Hottentots and other barbar-
ians, saying that he would not put ths
ballot into the hands of such people.
and referred to the fear that 1t would
be exercised by the worst groups of
women. There was some Kissing.
which regretted. The truth was that
the President thought he was going
into meeting of namby -panlby wo-
men, and when he found out his mis-
take, he fioundered and hopped so that
he really did not know what he cid
unanimously passed a resolution of
apology"
An to the Colonel
T. Fl. got In the game twice. Onca
DR.. Shaw. answering point by Miss
Sewall that women would have power
only one day in the year with their
ballots. while the government goes on
all the time. said that this one day
did the work for the rest of the year
IN nuS Ray Sh
said. "and ask Mr.. Roosevelt what he
thinks about this year as a result of
the voting ever the country last week.
Miss Sewall came in for a lot of fun
making as TO her lack of Knowledge OF
facts. But 1t was an individual named
Dick Barry whose work came out or
the arena on stretcher. In the first
place, Dr. Shaw denied empratically
that she reads the ma ga2ine to which !
she referred II have many sins to |
answer for" she said, but that maga-
zine is not one of them, thank God. [
wasted 10 cents on IT once. 1t was in |
Philadelphia, when I wanted a plan |
for gate.
II bought it at a news stand, after
satisfying myself that there was mol
one 1 knew in sight | also bought {
a newspaper to wrap the magazine In. /
so that no one could see l had It, 1t I
was the meanest thing i ever did in
my life.
I'VE all know, she continued, how
accurate that magazine is. We
can read there how to build a house
for 5000, and any contractor or archi-
tect will tell us 1t will cost not less
than $4,000. Of course, the contrac-
tor is wrong Then it tells us how
to live on Is cents day We all know
1t can be done; If you can't do 1t, 1t IS
aII1t No q ma o.a p n a. e i
Teddy's Language.
How this Mr.. Barry. it seems, had
said few things in the aforesaid
Journal which reflected on women as
voters, so DR. Shaw proceeded to tell
what she saw during All election visit
to Denver. She was disappointed, she
admitted, in that the women roundly
criticized their ir6opponents and said un
pleasant things about them. "But i,
when I saw" she commented, "how a
man who had previously sat in the
Presidents chair and is we'll known
IN the United States and in Africa,
used language no better than that
OF the ward heeler In attacking his
opponents during the recent campaign,
j thought the women might he. eX-
cused."
1t must not understood from this
fragmentary account that DR., Shaw
put her opponents out of their misery
with one blow from her good right
arm. Instead, she prolonged their Il
agony. burning their flesh with hot
needles every few minutes, when she
happened to remember that they We're
yet alive, and reserwing the final de-
capitation until the very last act, Just
before the final curtain.
DR.. Shaw was introduced by Mrs. b.
p. Valentine. president of the Equal
Stuff ra Lea etlleF of Nirerinfa Mrs Na1- IL
entine told how Just a year ago the
women of Virginia awoke to the fact Il,
they occupied the anomalons position
other progressive states were putting
the ballot in the hands OF the sex and
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