Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-11-03
An OfatOriCdI Tournament
In Committee On Elections
4 SYMPATHETIC HEARING
The Comments of Mr.. Con-
nelley's Constituents Who
Are Not Sympathetic -
Direct Legislation Has
Right of Way Tomorrow.

Again the expected did not happen
the consideration by the constitu-
tional convention yesterday of the in
| itiative and referendum measure.
Judge Bakers proposition No. 4, the
| legislative committees substitute for
1t and three minority reports We're
all received from the printer yester-
day morning.
Previous to the report of the print
ing committee, a rule had been
adopted on the motion of Mr.. Cum
niff requiring all measures for the
committee of the whole to go ON the
calendar for one day. Therefore the
direct legislation question could not
be considered before today and on
the motion of Mr.. Winsor 1t was
made a special order for tomorrow
morning.
Those who miss its discussion will
miss the most elaborate debate Of
the session for several set speeches
for and against the proposition are
in the course OF preparation.
THE SUFFRAGISTS DAY.
open convention yesterday The
morning session was brief and the
afternoon session was equally SO.
partly because there was no business
ready and partly because there was
to be a public hearing at three
o'clock by the committee on elections
Of the equal suffrage question and
for this occasion the leading advo-
Gates of votes for women had been
brought from the four corners of
the territory.
The hearing was held in the coun-
ell chamber Chairman Jones of the
committee, after calling 1t to order,
stated that the further proceedings
would be under the direction of Mrs
Frances Munds. the head of the Ari-
zona Women's Suffrage association.
At three o'clock the galleries were
well filled and judging from the dem
onstration the audience was largely
in sympathy with the movement.
Mrs. Munds occupied a place on
the platform of the president Of the
council surrounded by the scheduled
speakers. She first introduced Mrs.
j. A. Hopkins of Miami Gila county
who she said was one of the large
number of persons designated by the
census officials as without occupa-
ton; that is. she was nothing but
"a housekeeper. Mrs. Hopkins who is
a very young matrOn read a well
prepared paper dealing with the
equal suffrage question from a gem
eral point of view, taking the ground
that the admission of women to suf-
fragc would be better for the women.
better for the men and better for
the state.
The next speaker was DR. Agnes
Wallace of Prescott who spoke in
behalf Of professional women and
wage earners. Both had found them
selves handicapped for lack of the
suffrage and she related the expert
ences of her self and others who had
been denied public positions which
they were well able to fill because
they were without votes and conse-
quently without political influence
which in the appointive officeholder
under the present system takes the
place OF efficiency.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Perhaps the hit of the day was
made by Mrs. Virgil Parks of Tue
son. Her paper was a story well
told, Of conversation supposed to
have taken place in the year of Our
Lord 1860 describing the struggle
and success Of the women of Ari-
zona fifty years before in securing
recognition in the Arizona constitu-
tional convention.
A little boy of the story having
failed to understand his grandmother.
the relator. say that suffrage had
been granted, as he was leaving to
go to bed, asked if he should pray
for the souls of the "constitutioners''
in purgatory. No. replied the grand
mother. they had granted suffrage
and had gone to heaven, escaping
even the smell of purgatory.
Another speaker was Ernest H.
Liebel of the labor party and assist
ant editor of the Voice of the Peo-
pie. Mr.. Liebel presented his prayer
for the emancipation of women in
the form of a more or less imperi-
Gus demand and in conclusion he in
timated that it would be to the ad-
vantage of the political future of the
delegates to admit the women to suf-
frage. 1t was coming anyway and