The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-12
-HKemeH Are on Hand 10
Plead For Suffrage
From a sal Correspondent.


LANSING. Mich. March l2.-lt's up
10 the Michigan legislature TO take
on its hat, wipe of its chin, pull down
its vest. smile smirk and eat sen'seh
for while, anyway. A feminine 100
by for double suffrage has arrived oh
the firing line and as II would DC TN
gallant to fight, the logical alternative
Is to surrender.
Three prominent advocates OF votes
for women" are here, TO labor Tor theif
increasingly popular cause. and they
are Miss Clara l.. Dyer, representing
the League of Equal Suffrage socie-
Ties; Dr. Mary Thompson stevens. OF
the Detroit Suffrage league, and Mrs.
Z. II. Sellers. representing the Won
ans independent Voters, and the De
troit Equal Suffrage club.
In their efforts to get the legis!a-
tors lined up on the side OF eqia'
suffrage, this trio OF alert ladies Is
very efficiently reinforced by the Rev.
f. r. Shipper, the well-known Detroit
Unitarian pastor and ardent friend
and promoter of progressive ideas
Evidently these Detroit equal SUI.
fragists were tipped by "a little bird
or something. or else they just CO.
incidentally happened TO OPPORTUNITY
and psychologically get in right on
the eve OF a special message by the
governor asking the legislature &c sub
NIT double suffrage proposed eeH-
stitutional amendment 10 the voters
OF Michigan.
! Anyway, the ladies and Rev. Ship
: pen are here, and they are enthlsl-
astically and determinedly playing
their game.
Notwithstanding the defeat of the
\ cause last year, the friends OF the
franchise for femininity are not with
out hope and will labor zealously with
the realization that even the mental
{ mechanism OF a Detroit senator might
possibly reverse. In fact, II Is re-
ported that Senator Guy Miller, who Is
not particularly famous for trampling
the speed limit laws into the dust as
/ a rip-roaring progressive, Is in fuvor
OF letting the women in on the vot-
ing business. This is only a report.
though.
! Hope, then, Is not without excuse.
! Six states now have equal suffrage.
They are Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Col
orado. California and Washington.
Kansas has II for everything but the
presidency, and that is to be suit
mitted as an amendment proposition
this year.
Ohio. wisconsin and Nevada are TO
vote on the question, and Gov. Foss,
/ of Massachusetts,, favors 1t, while the
! Democrats OF Massachusetts, indorse
Il in their platform. The governor or
New Hampshire, Il is said. Is in favor
] nd N
! dorsed In the constitutional conven'
| ton to be convened in June.
Well, then, Is Michigan, My Michl-
| gan" going TO be a back-number.
| standpatter, reactionary, tall
ender, a slumberer, and an old fogy
| while her bright-eyed progressive sis-
tiers lead In the progression process
sion?
The answer rests with the legisia-
tors
However. the senators and repre-
sentatives should not burden thein-
selves with the idea that they have
to shoulder the responsibility OF de.
Gliding the merits OF the equal sur
frage proposition. That isn't their
trouble at ALL No matter IL all or
the lawmakers N both houses are Or
posed TO allowing the women to vote,
they should not be opposed to giving
the legal voters of the state the OPP
portunity and privilege OF deciding the
popular and timely question.
While the house turned down the
cause woman suffrage last yca-
with about So for TO about 80 against
about 12 short OF the necessary two
thirds-there seems TO be pretty
good show for the proposed measure
at this time. The persistent ladies'
on the scene have been wooing ana
evidently they have been winning. On
their lists OF good ones, bad ones and
incorTfgfb1es they have transformed
Rep. Samuel Odell and Rep. Open
born from the black list TO the white
list. and IL seems "a though there was
third catch. The supposed inoor'
rigibles. the set fellows that belong
10 the balky brigade. are labeled with
rings around their names.
The senate Is an uninviting looking
unknown quantity The senate is
sort OF n nuisance from force Of hab.
a. n didn't have n chance 10 vote on
the amendmen, question last year
but n Is quite logical TO conclude that
the women will have troubles OF their
own in the upper house. But then, Il
senator Miller has progressed, tnat'll
helm heap. and here's a guess that
Senator Lee will he unable. TO resist
the influences Of the aggressive fair
ones. FbhhlS.
MISSING nov ~ FOUND.
MARINE CITY Mich March IL