Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06
WOMEN PROCLAIM DEMAND
FOR PRIVILEGE OF VOTING
Names of Contributors Withheld, but
No Promise Is Made They
Will Remain So

NEW YORK, March 5.--The woman
voter is an actuality. Small, but well
rounded she stands the epitome of a
| perfect if political lady, and the only
/ reason she is not already doing CANS
| themes with the ballot lies in the TACT
that her existence is wholly on paper
she has not yet materialized in the
| flesh.
This New York Woman Voter is the
| organ of the newly formed woman $
| party and her debut is something in
| the nature of a barefoot dancers. She
| is uncovered as to head and feet ana
| clothed mainly in the strength of her
arguments. The Voter is monthly
! pamphlet Of two column measure, de-
! void of Illustration. its first page de-
voted to an advertisement of the suf-
frage hearing at Albany on March 3,
! and all its matter meat.
Chief Editorial Plea
The opening editorial of the little
magazine written by Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, big boss of the party, sounds
The note of the battle to he Waged. 1t
is entitled "Our Common Cause and
runs:
"A few weeks ago in a small city in
one of the middle western states 1t
became the duty of certain common
pleas Judge to pronounce sentence on
several city and county officials con-
victed of grating This judge, an up
right man. possessed of old-faShioned
ideas of honor, really believing that
public office is a sacred trust, belieV-
ing, too. in punishment ChoW could ne
be Judge, indeed, and not believe in
fhat?) gave his most serious thought
to the consideration of penalty which
should fit the crime. He wished to
establish a precedent which would de-
ter men from such evil acts in the
future. as well as to mete out to these
malefactors their justly earned reward.
AT last he said it! He knew what
he would do.
"The night before he was to give his
decision the chief counsel for the ac-
cused visited him, to learn, if possible,
what the sentence was to be. The
iudge told him. The attorney famed
as "a criminal lawyer beyond the bor-
ders Of his own state, a veteran Of
many legal battles, a man seldom sur
prised and not often Disconnected
gasped:
mot that he pleaded. not that!
Give them ,penitentiary 81 sentence IT. tn,.
which we may have commuted later'
But the old-fashioned judge, replied
serenely: I have spoken
"The next morning he pronounced the
sentence-the sentence from the dis
grace of which their attorney had
pleaded that his clients should be saved
bv being sent to states prison, the
sentence which was TO brand them as
with the mark of Cain, which was TO
make them aliens in their own city
and country, that sentence which has
ever been reserved for arch traitors
perpetual disfranchisement.
. "The Woman Suffrage party calls
upon the women of Greater New York
to ponder on this story. and in the
name of the lesson it teaches to unite
in the cause of Womans political
freedom.
Divided by class interests, separated
bv social customs, cut off from each
other by the lack of a universal
language, the women Of this city can
not get together by reason of the things
which they have. ParadoXical it may
sound, but true it is. that the only
thing they have in common is the thing
which they have not.
in the name, then, of this common
disability. the Woman Suffrage party
calls and calls again upon the women
of New York to unite. To unite-not
tomorrow, nor next week. but now
and. united. to proclaim that the SEN
tence of the women of this state and
this city shall not be perpetual dis
franchisement"