Connecticut western news., 1912-05-02
SUFFRAGE RALLY.
Rain Kept Many Away, but Didn't
 Scare the Faithful.

Scare the Faithful
 Jupiter H. Pluvius, Esq, is rabid anti suffragist. and on Monday night, the date of the suffragist rally in Town Hall, he was just as mean as he could be, and tried to put wet blanket on the affair. Just the same, he didn't suc- ceed i'll quenching all the ardor in town, nor in dampening the enthusiasm of those devoted believers in equal fran chise who are fired with a genuine zeal or the advancement of the cause. In spite of the fact that it rained cats and dogs, about hundred persons were present-ladies and gentlemen in about equal numbers-and all evinced an ear nest interest in the meeting.
 The hall was decorated with immense banners bearing the names of the states that have already emancipated women. The ushers were six young ladies, Misses Ebba Lindell, Catherine F1nne- gan, Edith Oliver. Margaret Collins, Mabel Quinn and Mary Collins, dressed in white and wearing sashes inscribed, "Votes for Women" Mrs. Frank Hitchcock, president of the Canaan Equal Franchise League, presided, and after reading a printed sentiment from a well-known suffragist, introduced MT. A. s. G. Taylor, secretary and treasurer of the Connecticut Mems League for Woman Suffrage, who presented a strong and striking argument for equal suffrage, which he illustrated with charts of facts and figures showing that in those states where women are allowed to vote, the condition of the people, socially, morally, politically, in tellectually and in every other desirable way, has been materially improved. Mir. Taylor showed intense earnestness in his subject, and made @ fine impress sion upon his hearers.
 Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor, chair man of the Litchfield County League, followed, and gave 8 clear and convlnc- ing exposition of the woman's move ment, replete with wit, eloquence, sound argument and some delicate sa- tire, all of which pleased and satisfied the audience and showed that the speak CT had made herself mistress of the en- tire subject. ..s.
 Rev. T. F. Bannon, of GAnaMa and Lakeville, was next introduced, and gave 8 splendid address in which he set forth his sympathy for the cause of woman suffrage and his reason for the faith that is in him. He paid tribute to the mothers who bring up the children, and especially to the woman teachers and principals of the schools, under whom the pupils of Canaan, for example, had made splendid progress. He considered that his mother was as we'll qualified to vote intelligently as his father, and his sister as well qualified as he, himsef-a sentiment that was warm. ly applauded. He paid his disrespects to the injustice of taxation without representation, and ridiculed the oondi- ton of things that deprives the woman who pays taxes on perhaps a million dollars worth of property, of the right to say how and for what that money shall be expended, while her coachman may go to the polls and exercise that right.
 Rev. O. w. Hanna, of East Canaan, who followed Father Ramon, spoke in his happiest vein, and made 8 number of telling points, interspersed with wit ty remarks that made the people laugh, while driving home his sound, logical arguments in favor of women.
 After the speaking Mrs. Hitchcock announced that the ushers would pass around blanks for signatures, enrolling the signers among those who "believe in equal suffrage for men and women" Mrs. E. V. Nesteu explained that the signing of these blanks entailed ne obli. gation upon the signers. but would be used simply to back up the next petition to the legislature as proof that 8 maJor- ity of the people are in favor of the equal franchise movement.
 TwentY-two of these blanks were signed before the meeting adjourned.
 The BaId-Heads.
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