New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
GOVERNORS TELL WOMEN
THEY OUGHT TO VOTE
But Suffragists Get Uneasy at
Sharp Criticism of Mill
tant Methods.
BIG COOPER UNION RALLY
Five Executives of States Where
the Fair Sex Goes to Polls
Urge Hearers to Keep
Up the Fight.

Well the Governors were all there In
spite Of the fact that box seats at the Hin
podrome awaited them, Governor spry OF
Utah. Governor Hawley Of Idaho. Gov
ernor Shafroth of Colorado Governor
Carey Of Wyoming and Governor Hay Of
Washington were on hand last night at
Cooper Union in response to the invitation
Of the Woman's Political Union, 10 tell
New York what woman suffrage has done
for the states of which they are the
executives.
Governor Carey told the audience that
they were afraid not to come Afraid"
he explained, that 1t would hurt us at
home"
But there Is ny in every pot Of oint-
ment The fly in the happiness of Mrs
tarriot Stanton Blatch. president of the
union, and the other women who sat on
the platform last night was the spirited
tenunciation by Governors Hawley and
spry Of militant methods in the suffrage
cause.
We, OF Utah, said Mr. Spry believe
~ the motherly woman. in the woman who
holds home 10 be the most sacred thing
N earth"
Don't" he implored the women before
i'm, ALLOW yourselves TO he carried away
: the enthusiasm which has carried
sway your sisters on the other side OF the
I'ater. Your cause is too good thing TO
poll I don't want TO see YOU retsrd 1t by
mistaken methods"
suffragists Little Uneasy.
Mrs. Rlatch who adores the ways Of the
rent of the smile she had brought on the
ratform. Mrs. John Winters Brannan ad-
listed her lace wrap and looked pensive.
and Dr. Anna Shaw began 70 examine a
lfrage picture postcard IN hcr hand. But
Governor Spry made up for his offence
assuring the women that they couldn't
osslbly do worse in politics than men.
IF women" he said ''can beat the freak
legislation that men have placed on the
statute books. they ought not 70 be allowed
70 vote.
But out in Utah women have elev Il
politics. Our women have voted ever lnce
! can remember. I have sat on ju cial
committees Of which the chairman was a
woman. / have seen women in Office I
nave watched them 'at the polls. and the
more have seen the more strongly have
believed In woman suffrage. I have never
hoard a reasonable answer 10 thc ques-
ton: Why should women not vote?'"
You never will" shouted stentorian
masculine voice in the rear of the hall
and the big audience applauded loudly.
Women" said the Governor, as he
finished his speech. have stood shoulder
20 shoulder with men in the development
of the Western states, and that's why We
tA1
polls. But / believe sentiment for woman
suffrage Is gaining everywhere in this
Union, and the time viii soon be ripe for
its success.
Governor Carey Beams Kindly.
Governor Carey, big. benevolent and
White-whiskered, beamed kindly on the
audience as he told how woman suffrage
vas obtained in Wyoming when 1t was still
territory and what it had done for
them out there"
Il place my belief In equal suffrage on
he plane Of common Justice" he said.
The man who will not give his sister, his
mother or his wife an equal chance In life
sith himself is afraid-afraid OF her power
and influence.
Women are to-day IN banks in counting
houses, On the farm, they are taking care
Of inebriate husbands, Of sick husbands
'Fho are not able themselves to earn Nv
ng: yet the husband can vote and the wife
annot. VIII you tell me why she should
ot he allowed TO protect her rights?
What have We done in the suffrage
Hates? We have done a great deal. The
Nv hasn't been taken into the hands Of
mob in Wyoming for thirty years Since
he adoption Of woman suffrage l have
iover seen any disorder at the polls
ave never heard of any III feeling between
husband and wife over political questions.
{ have never known Of mans intimidat
sng his wife, and l know only one instance
or a woman's making her husband vote
she wished"
) The Governor ended by prophesying that
DE women OF California, oregon. Kansas.
Wisconsin and Minnesota would in no long
f,me have the ballot.