Arizona republican., 1912-05-30
EQUAL SUFFRAG|STS
 GET WIRES CROSSED
An Unauthorized Initiative Petition Is Put Into Circulation
 in the City.

Some person without authorization
 has started an equal suffrage petition for an amendment to the constitution and for several days it has been in circulation in Phoenix and elsewhere within the state The petition is said to have originated at Cherry. YaVapai county. This matter having been brought to the attention of Msr. Fran ces W. Munds, chairman of the cen- tral committee of the equal suffrage 1 league she has issued d communica- tion saving that the petition has not been authorized by the league To avoid confusion, Mrs. Munds sends a copy of the state petition and she asks the friends of equal suffrage to sign it and no other. Should the 1 other be presented for signature. Mrs. Munds asks that it be sent to Mrs. Mary Loy at Prescott. who will re- | turn a petition in proper form.
 The following is the form of the regular petition:
 We. the undersigned citizens. quail
 fled electors and legal voters of the state of Arizona. do hereby petition that the following amendments to | the constitution of the state of Ari- zona, the same to be known as the Woman Suffrage amendments. be sub mitted to the electors at the next succeeding general election, occurring not less than four months after the i filing of this petition, said petition being filed under Article " of the constitution of the state of Arizona, said amendments to read as follows. | to-wit:
 Be it enacted by the people of 1 Arizona that Sections and 15. of Ar l ticle VII of the Constitution of Ari- zona. be and are hereby amended to
 read as follows, to-Wit:
 No person shall be entitled to vote
 at any general election. or for any | office that now is, or hereafter may i be elective by the people, or upon any | question which may be submitted to
 vote of the people. unless such per son be citizen of the United States of the age of tWenty-One or over and shall have resided in the state one year immediately preceding such election The word citizen" shall
 include persons of the male and fe- | male sex.
 The rights of citizens of the Unit l ed States to vote and hold office shall i not be denied or abridged by the state. or any political division or mu- ] nicipality thereof on account of sex, and the right to register. to vote and | to hold office under any law now in 1 effect or which may hereafter be 1 enacted. is hereby extended to and conferred upon males and females i alike.
 i No person under guardianship, non i compos mentis, or insane, shall be l qualified to vote at any election nor l shall any person convicted of treason
 or felony. be qualified to vote at any election unless restored to civil rights.
 Section I5. Every person elected or appointed to any office of trust or profit under the authority of the state, or any political division or any municipality thereof. shall be a | qualified elector of the political divis- ! ion or municipality in which said per son shall be elected or appointed"
 Each of said petitioners for himself says:
 T am citizen of the United 1 States and a qualified elector and le- | gal voter Of the state of Arizona My
 residence and postoffiCe address and the date of my signing this petition are correctly written after my name