The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-20
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
HAS CLEAR FIELD
NO One Appears to Oppose 1t i'll
Comnlittce-Big Crowd
Present.
MISS JOHNSTON A SPEAKER
Hill Montague Asks Committee
to Report to House, Even
If Unfavorably.

woman would eventually have the bal
lot, and gave their reasons for fav-
orapio report on the Joint resolutions
regarding the amendments
In his conclusion, MIR. Montague ask
cd that IL the committee proved vnfav-
oraolo to tho amendments, 1t would not
XIII them by placing them In pigeon
hoies. but would report them to the
House with a recommendation that
they do not pass. SO that they may
DO reconsidered on the floor. This, It
Is expected. Will DO done. Tho com
mittoe VIII take tho matter under
considera ton Monday afternoon.
impressive Assembly.
ihe Equal Suffrage League of Nir-
sinia made show of strength at the
nearing of which the leaders were
proud The interest was Intense.
While some came from curiosity. II
was evident that the great majority
was In hearty sympathy with the move
for equal suffrage.
Mrs. B. B, Valentine president or tno
league. introduced tho speakers she
SAID briefly that women are classed In
virginia with the Idiot, tho lunnt!c and
the criminal IS being unworthy OF tho
ballot She asked the men II they yyouId
Ieei Tree mad they to go TO women
10 LOT 'heir laws and for thoir education.
she made the statement that the petit
lions filed did not represent tho ont,ro
demand for woman suffrage, for many
women arc afraid to sign. being in
mental subsection to employer or hug
band or father.
Miss Johnston Speaks.
Miss Mary Johnston spoke ~ tho
changes OF modern days But In The
MIDST OF oil this change of status.
she SAID, so general, so recogntZad
DO welcomed, there Appears to exist. in
Huihosr oil minds, stony objection
10 any change in the status of wo
man She, alono OF all organisms. sto|
oe unaffected BY any changes OF en-
Vironment. She alone is to stand like
LOTS WIFE, unadaptod and unadaptabIe
ono alone is to preserve the coutlIbri
UNI OF the Dark Ages in tho mtdst of
inc electric light of the twentieth cen
.ulS' She Is to travel by OK cart,
Wniie you, gentlemen. take the air
ship. She alone is not to follow hnr
inner voice which says: Grow she
Is to follow your voice. which saws.
10 not grow. We will do the grow
Ing for both
There are 10000 women operatives
IN virginia. there are 1900 women
anu slri Industrial workers in Rich
mond alone. There are 900 trninod
nurses in Virginia There Ia creat
most of women stcnographers I'm Viz
slhia' mere are thousands and thous
anus OIL women teachers in virginia
There are IN virginia women mann
iacturers There are In Virginia wo
men farmers. Thousands and thous-
unus OIL virginia women are sclf-sup-
porting and supporters OF othera Pm,
over these lists of factory onerativss
hhop women, office women TEACHERS
nurses. writer's, Journalists. AMI won
WI ma every prominent surname in
tuis state OF the last $50 years. vIr-
sihla women are in tho economic ,,ori,
70 stay. Virginia girls are GRADUATING
rmo 10 one boy in tho high schools,
siHiu women are swelling the col
women women are large property holders.
'rsihia women are large taxpayers
49,. Draws Contrast.
AND yet in the face of statis,ics
uoi.il'ioh sense and II woman who 10
~, ~ All idiot. some gentlemen from
raIawny will stand under eIectri,,
s".s. III the halls Of legislative as
Mhlch TINS year sees introduced
.aH REFORM, prison reform, child Ia hor
reiorn' hours OF work reform aIr,
muse reform. tnitiative. refercnd,n,,
anu recall, segregation of tho renhin.
gentleman VIII run nc
- smile and say. MY dear ladies
u you'd just consent to s,av whare
great -srandmothers were
,n,t,a ieh you, gentlemen. come to com
tnnas properly bepowdered, pIr-
a,i.n,. ana snurt- boxed, when YOU acni,
oIsIGss embargo and whether or no we
anaii purchase Louisiana. then viii wa
.oo. return to where our great grand
mothers We're"
feV. p. S. Kinks, OF yyarrcnton. told
~ the good effects in Idaho. where he
'Vea anu where women vote.
Popninr ANA Representative.
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went into definitions of nonuj,,r -, -
eminent TO show that IL means thn
whoie BODY of tho people and not a
part "lIalf the eomlnuniiY." Sin n..ih