The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
MRS. HINCKS IS
 PLEASED WITH SUFFRAGE PLANK
Action of Bull Moosers at New Haven Yesterday Sets
 Pace She Declares Thinks It Is Now Up to Old Line Parties to Give Their
 Voters a Chance

Mrs. William T. Hincks, president of the Connecticut Woman's Suffrage association, who was in attendance at Haven yesterday, upon invitation, eX- pressed herself as extremely delight ed with the action of the convention relative to woman's suffrage, when seen today by a reporter for The Farmer. Mrs. Hincks was in com pany with Mrs. J. A. Rusling, Jr., and Mrs. W. S. Teele of this city, and Mrs. David T. Winton of stratford, who is at the head of the suffrage move convention opened a large banner with the words, Votes for Women, on it was swung from the balcony and suspended in conspicuous place, amid loud cheers from the delegates.
 In speaking of the convention to- day she said
 1T was more than delighted and I know that others in the cause for woman's suffrage are, at the action of the convention. That plank which reads, We favor woman suffrage in the Progressive party platform doesn't { in any way dodge the issue. And the best thing about the framing of that section Is that it did not come from the committee on Resolutions at the convention in that form, but came from the delegates on the floor, and came spontaneously.
 Like tidal wave, it could not be stopped nor stayed. The hundreds of men on the floor came from alI parts and corners of Connecticut. They were unpledged, unlobbyed, undoni- mated by anything but their own wills. One man went so far as to say that as Mir. Roosevelt was not thought. Then the same men with 1usty voices and strong power of will shouted the fact that they favored the franchise for women and would have it expressed without any condi- tions whatever.
 'The point of leaving it to the wo- men to decide was brought up and drowned amid chorus of noes. A crowd of vigorous, practical men know that a straw vote of that kind to nothing This thought occurs to me. The men that will later in this state under the ~Besnocfatic banner, and under the Republican banner will be of ffie same blood and calibre as those that met in New Haven yesterday. They also will come from all parts of Con- necticut and with stirrings of new and better things within them. How would it be if the same subject is brought up before them in conven- tion? Perhaps they, too, in the az. gregate would say We favor woman Let their committee on Resolutions give them a chance"
 In further discussing the matter Mrs. Hincks said that she did not care at this time to state whether she would support the progressive party or not. She stated that the &C., ton of the Chicago convention would have a good deal to do with the atti- tude of the women of the country who are in favor of the suffrage and that if that convention tries to straddle the question of wo- mans suffrage then insincerity will be charged and the party will not get the confidence of the sugragists.
 During the discussion of the suf- frage question yesterday Mrs. Hincks was, much to her surprise, called up- on to address the gathering. So far as is known this is the first time in the history of Connecticut politics that woman has been privileged to address a political convention,
 The resolution as submitted by the committe was in favor of a referen- dunn vote on the woman's suffrage question. This did not appeal tr
 
 that such a plank was sidesteppine the issue. After the report of the resolutions committee was adopted as a whole, the plank relative to the woman's suffrage question was re- opened for discussion. After much discussion there was substantial vote for woman's suffrage, unquali- fiedly.
 Mrs FIincks responded to the in- vitation to speak which was extended by Dr. Croft in an address to the con vention, in very able manner and showed that she had her subject well in hand.
 She spoke from the balcony, in a clear voice and with no apparent agitation. She declared that the wo- men who are fighting for woman s suffrage were today asking no more than what the men asked for in the beginning-the right and privilege to express themselves as to their govern ment. s'We desire the franchise now as you did then," she said. 'sWe are entitled just the same as you are in this life and we believe that while we are here we should have the right to vote. We are simply fighting for what you men fought for in the