Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-16
BOOST SUFFRAGE
CAUSE AT MEETING
Louis v. Aronson, Women
Speakers and Movies Draw
Crowd to Park.
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NOMINATION CANDIDATE
! ENDORSES WOMEN'S FIGHT
Plea Made for Support Of
Roosevelt and Bull Moose
Platform.

several women speakers and a NOV
ing picture machine combined to
further the woman suffrage cause
at a public meeting in Military Park
last night.
Long before Mr.. Aronson was con-
Quoted to the park by the fife and
drum corps of the Canal Street Play
ground the space around the band
stand, from which the speakers ana
the movie" machine operated, was
filled by a crowd of suffrage entllu-
siasts and a few who were merely
curious.
Comment Is Heard.
Considerable comment was heard
from the suffragists on Mr.. Aronson's
action in coming out at an open meet
ing to advocate the securing of tha
ballot by, women. This was said 10
indicate substantial progress in the
movements journey and predictions
We're made that before long the suit
frage campaign would have reached
such proportions that all candidates
for public office would be forced 10
declare themselves on this question.
Several of the speakers mentioned
the fact that Governor Wilson las
yet replied to a letter sem hi'n
last Noyember by the Women's Po-
litical Union of New Jersey. asking
that he make plain his stand on the
votes for women" question.
1.-The Governor claims to be 4 Pro
gressive,'' said Mrs. Minna Van Win
liz ~rnof1a,nt ~ fhn Dnliftaa1 HMM
"but progressiveness without suffrage
is like smoke without ireAimpossi-
BILE" :,
Women Speak.
- Besides Mr.. Aronson and Mrs. Van
Wrinkle women prominent in the fight
for suffrage spoke. Miss Alice Car-
penter, who as a delegate to the Bull
Moose convention. helped insert IAN
equal suffrage plank in the Progress
sive platform, spoke at length on the
framing of the Progressive platform
and made a plea for the support by
women of the Roosevelt campaign
Mrs. Ida M. Waters. of the New Yoik
State Suffrage Association, AM Miss
Minnie Reynolds. who is IN ardent
suffragette, without being affiliated
with any organization. also spoke
interestingly.
The moving picture machine, how
ever, came very nea being the star
performer. A play, the moral Of
which was Votes for Women Must
Come" or something of the sort. was
first flashed on the screen, after which
pictures Of this springs suffrage par
ade in New York were shown,
MIR. Aronson's Speech.
Mr.. Aronson said in part:
"It affords me great pleasure. and ]
feel 1t an honor as a citizen of New
ark, to address the members of the
Women's Political Union of New Jer-
sey. 1t would also give me sincere
pleasure to address you as Fellow
Voters, but that will come in time,
have no doubt. | wish the members
of the Union Godspeed in their cause,
and trust some profitable results may
come to them from this gathering.
Your self-sacriicing President of
the Union and capable officers de-
serve the success they are striving
for.
we fatter ourselves that we are
an up-to-date, progressive city. 1
know that we are; we are living in
an age of progress; we r progress
sing in science, material things and
in politics. Even those who wish to
stand still in politics are forced to
progress whether they like to or not.
while l am on the subject of
progress / might as well digress for
a moment to say that we have sew
eral kinds of progress before us to-
day. The kind 1 am in favor of Is
the slow, steady, normal progress
that all the people "a join in; that
all the people can take part in; that
all the people can understand as they
march along in the army of progress.
1.-THE woman's question is before
us and it must be answered one way
or another. We place our girls on
the same plane with the boys in our
educational systema The professions
are open to the women. In bust
ness they are taking their places with
the men and are asserting their
equality on every side. Having
demonstrated their fitness t o hold
their own in the activities of life, they
now demand that this fitness shall be
recognized at the ballot box.
"Question OF Time"
"They have made wonderful prog
ress in practical demonstrations of
ability to handle their own problems
and 1 feel confident hat it will be
merely a question of time when they
will be able to enforce these demands
they are now seeking. They have
progressed too far to so back. They
must go forward. and as I said in
the beginning, the march of progress
in all things is strong. so irresistible
that those who wish to stand still
must progress, whether they like II
or not"
Miss Carpenter said:
"The only real progress made after
decades of machine driven politics.
she asserted. sis reflected in the plat
form drafted by the Progressives al
Chicago. All other so-called progress
sive measures are merely sops thrown
to the populace. The Roosevelt party
is the peoples party"
"I used to vote regularly in Denver
and, / guess, made a good Job of it,
said Mrs. Reynolds, "but having to
come East I find myself disfranchised,
The mere stepping on and off of q
railroad train, and a three days jour
ney has rendered me incapable OF
voting 1t seems"
Mrs. Reynolds is a native OF Colo
RADIO and has been an active suffrage
worker in the West. She is now 10
Gated in Newark and will probabl,
WELD the cudgel for the Woman's Pc,
litical Union.
ENDS LIFE BY HANGING