The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-20
SUFFRAGISTS WILL
STILL DARN SOCKS

CHICAGO April Don't be
alarmed your socks will be mended.
Don't be afraid that your dinner
will be cold
Don't be afraid that your children
wi be neglected.
Don't be afraid that the study of
government will take more time than
shopping gossip or bridge whist"
With these reassuring words Chi
Cages champions Of equal suffrage
scattered through the various wards
OF the city today where the alder.
manic struggle was raging and spread
their arguments broadcast Reports
from the ward workers pouring into
the office of the Womans party at the
Hotel LaSalle at noon dispelled any
idea that the seed of suffrage senti-
ment was falling among tares. Every
where the women declare. the petit
ton asking that women be granted
the ballot is receiving favorable no.
tice and a landslide !or equal suffrage
is expected at the primary elections
week from today.
The wards most thoroughly can.
vas3ed by workers from the woman's
party were the third, twenty-seventh,
twenty-eighth, eighteenth and TWEEN
ty-first. In the twenty and sew
enth ward there was active campaign
ing-forty precincts in the former be-
ing thoroughly combed for prosuf-
frage voters.
Mrs. Julia Godfrieaux and her
daughter, Miss Rosalie Godfrieaux,
captained the forces in the twenty
eighth ward, where some of the most
active work of the day was done. Not
content to hover around the pools,
Mrs. GodfrieauX and her daughter
trudged bravely from precinct to pre-.
cinct, covering miles of territory and
buttonholing the voters. Miss Rosalie
Godfrieeux invented the eXpedient OF
inserting her literature into newspa
pers ON the corner stands.
Vote yes-April Son the ques
ton, Shall women be given the bal
'ot?'" This message to the male vot
ers went all over the city and in care
fully canvassed wards there was not
a man who reached the polls without
having one of these handbills present
ed to him
Mrs. l.. w. Sharp and Mrs. Iris
Smith plunged bodily into the West
Madison street lodging house district
and there did active work. Even in
this district, where many votes are
regularly cast in favor of politicians
whom the women declare they will
annihilate politically, the petition for
equal suffrage was received seriously
and favorably.
Sure thing" said skinny" Fasset
grinning at his handful, ''let 'em vote
My mother was the only friend | ever
had and I reckon she'd a voted
straighter'n her handsome offspring. u
mo one mends me socks anyhow,
said Mike" Malcolm, ruefully. "The
free lunch is cold as rule when
get up near it. l was neglected all
right when / was a kid-but it wasn't
because my old woman had vote
it was because the old man had a
chronic jag. Gwan and vote-I'll lei
you"
Mrs. Mary e. Teats arose between
selections by the orchestra at noon
today at the Boston oyster house and
addressed a room full of sympathetic
listeners. The manager allowed hel
five minutes and she took fifteen
When she finished loud cheers broke
from the restaurant crowd.
who has a better right to vote,
she asked, than the women who pass
through the valley of the shadow t
give the country citizenship"
Members of the publicity commit
tee of the Illinois Suffrage League be
gan their campaign by rushing
through the twenty-first ward in au
tomobiles, sticking up yellow posters
announcing the opportunity to vot,
on the suffrage question next Tues
day.
Another committee, headed by Mrs
Charles Hamill, began calling on lee
islative candidates to find out thei
views on the equal suffrage issue.
A womans suffrage demonstration
will be staged tonight at the Busl
Temple Beside the speaking Their,
will be a musical programme an,
dancing.
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