Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07
VOTES FOR WOMEN.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

According to the testimony of prominent
leaders of the equal suffrage movement,
followed in this article, there are a num-
Der of states in which the equal suffrage
proposition probably will be presented to
| the voters within the next two or three
years, and in each of these. according
to suffragist leaders, everything possible
| is being done to increase the suffrage
sentiment In New Hampshire a consti-
| tutional convention is to be held in June
of this year in which a fight will be made
for an equal suffrage provision in the new
| constitution. DR.. Anna Shaw, the presi-
dent of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, is conducting an Or
ganized series OF meetings in the interest
o fthis constitutional provision. and 1t is
intended by the leaders that all available
influence shall be brought to bear upon
the delegates to this convention. Gov.
Bass is firm supporter Of the suffrage
| cause and has spoken in favor Of equal
suffrage several times. Men in New
Hampshire already have formed several
organizations in the interest of the en-
| franchisement of women.
| In Maine the laws affecting women have
long been more generous than In many
other states, but a bill to submit a suf-
!
der consideration. IL has received the en-
thusiaStic approval of the State Grange
and number of other organizations. and
large number of men are actively work
| ing In the aid Of the womans suffrage as
sOciations. In Massachusetts number
| of new suffrage organizations have re-
| Gently been formed, number of legis-
lative hearings held and woman suffrage
| party with branches throughout the state
has been established in Boston. In Yer
mont an active campaign Is in progress
and it will be continued throughout the
summer by a series of meetings. in Con-
nectcut and Rhode Island also the SUI
| frage agitation is at fever heat Rev.
Anna Howard Shaw is devOting most OF
her time to campaign work in New Eng
land, where suffragists say the prospects
| of constitutional amendments are brighter
than ever before.
In Nevada there Is a strong suffrage
sentiment and the suffrage amendment
has already been passed by one legisla-
ture and will come up for the second
time next year, with a strong probability
Of passing. The proximity Of Nevada to
California has made 1t possible for
number of the workers who helped Sc
cure the California amendment to give
their aid to Nevada, and this is being done
In a continual campaign Of spirited meet
ings. Among the men who have lately
entered the field in Nevada is Rev.
Charles Aked, d. D., of England, now
in San Francisco, and formerly pastor of
WHAT Is hIONn DIS tuc ROShCICiCi
Church in New York.
In Texas an active state suffrage as
ISOLATION has lately been formed. At a
meeting held
Man Against Suffrage in San Antonio
Not Found in Texas. w a. desired
that q man he found to take the opposi-
ton side in a debate upon woman suf-
frage. The committee in charge went
from one prominent man to another in
quest of an anti-suffragist, but without
success. Doctors, lawyers, judges and
clergymen were approached and the an
swer was, II am suffragist," or at the
most, Il am on the fence and three
search not one man was found In San An
tonic willing to face public audience in
opposition to woman suffrage.
In Virginia one of the leaders In the
legislative campaign now in progress Is
Miss Mary Johnston, the novelist. Miss
Johnston IN a recent brilliant address be-
fore a committee of the Virginia legis-
lature called attention to the thousands
of women who were earning their own
livings in the various professions and
industries of that state and answered the
suggestion of the gentlemen that the Ia
dies should 'be satisfied to remain as
When you gentlemen come to your COM
mittee room properly bepowdered, pig
tailed and snuffboxed; when you again
discuss the embargo and whether or not
we shall purchase Louisiana; then will
we, too, return to where our grand
mothers WERE" Gov. Mann Of Virginia
is a strong supporter Of woman suffrage
and predicts that within ten years the
state of Virginia will have enfranchised
its women.
At the opening Of the legislature
each member was reminded of the
new political party by a pink carna-
ton upon his desk from the aMry-
land State Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton. The suffrage measure was in
troduced by Delegate Campbell and the
first hearing was held in February. Large
sums of money have been contributed to
the Maryland campaign. Literature upon
woman suffrage has been literally dis
tributed throughout the state during the
year and meetings were held last summer
in the rural districts. In West Virginia
the same suffrage sentiment is being
created and a legislative hearing is likely
to be brought up this year in that state.
In Pennsylvania there never was a