The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-09
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st. Paul will probably soon have
an opportunity of watching the NOV
suffrage propaganda. Local s~uffragists
are working to secur an exhibit of
the Votes for Women" photo-play,
which has been produced in the east
under the direction Of the National
Woman Suffrage association.
Bhiely. the story tells of the o n
version of a few women and some in
fuential public men to the cause
through the terrifying industrial con-
ditions pointed out to them by GER
tain propagandists.
A s~uffragist. %canvassing her sena-
torial district. finds a family Of help
less girls whose father is dying of
tuberculosis. The eldest daughter does
han d~embroidery, the second works in
a department store and the youngest
runs ribbons in corset covers. The
to the suffrage bill, and the father of
his fiancee owns the department store
employing n of the sisters. The
fiancee learns that the girl has lost
her position because she would not
permit attentions from the floor walk
er and Indignantly takes the matter
up with her father. He is adamant,
and it is not until his daughter con-
tracts scarlet fever from wearing gar
ments sewed upon by n of the three
tenement girls, hat he changes his
mind. He n the senator are thereby
convinced that women need the vote
and hasten to headquarters, where
plans for the New York suffrage pa
rade are in order. Here may be seen
in actual presentmnet, Miss Jane
Adams and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
The film closes with a review of the
parade and everybody happy.
Announcement of the time and
place of the local exhibit will be made
as soon as possible.
Kate Burr has a very interesting ar
ticle i'm the National Monthly regard
ing the votes women will cast in the
coming presidential election, and it
will be of interest to women, whether
the neighhorhood of a million and a
half of the sisters will have q voice
as to who the next president shall be.
Miss Burr says:
The next presidential election in
the United States will take place on
Tuesday, November the fifth, in this
year of our Lord nineteen hundred
n twelve.
at is estimated thai from a million
to a million and a half women will
voice their choice for the next presi-
dent.
'What this Women's vote would
mean should it be thrown undivided
to one candidate or the other of the
two great leading parties, can we'll
he estimated by a comparison of
numbers with the pluralities Of for
mer presidents.
T begin with the election Of 1908,
President Taft's plurality over Will
liam Jennings Bryan was but little
more than a million and a quarter
votes throughout the country.
Grover Cleveland was elected the
first term by a plurality of only
62,6S3 votes.
AT that Notwithstanding,
then a territory-was the only state
IN Th,oh women had full suffrage.
president for the first time with less
plurality over Seymour than the
granting of the ballot to CALIFORNIA;
women last October added to the
Golden states voting list.
Going back to a%nte-bellum DAYS,
women could have furnished Lin
coins plurality ove Mcclellan and
had half a million votes to SPARE If
'1Vi hoN.
me growth of the suffrage move
ment in the United States has ex-
tended over the half century and
1arther: Many n many a time have
n suffrage adherents in the several
states and territories gone hopefully
TO the legislative halls of those states
and territories to urge the all-import-
ant question out of it's tabled or cup
hN-holed existence. and gone home
setback. but undismayed, to tenn
porary defeat.
This division of legislative vote still
remains after the half century.
Buf meantime six states have
granted full franchise to women. Cali
1ornia. the lusty infant in the woman's
family of voters has had an oppor-
'uhlty not vet accorded to the others
nominations through the presidential
primary law which passed both houses
OF the California legislature at the
beginning of the year"
A compact of lifelong friendship
has been sealed by the widows Of
John B. Thayer, former vice president
OF ne PENNSYLVANIA railroad, George
~. Nldener, tinancier. and Colonel
John Jacob Astor. whose husbands
persisted on the Titanic.
Mrs. John b. ThaNer made the an
nouncement Of the friendship past i'm
philadelphia, following the return of
mrs. Aston to her home in New York
after a two weeks visit to Mrs.
Thayer and Mrs. Widener in that CITY.
Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Widener re-
Gently extended to Mrs. Aston an in
vitation to visit them at their country
homes near Philadelphia. The inyi-
tation was extended at the luncheon
Whlch Mrs. Aston gave to Captain
Rostron in New York and which was
attended by both of the philadelphia
women.
Mrs. Aston accepted the invitation
and until a few days ago Mrs. Astor.
Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Widener we're
constantly together at either the Wild
ener home in Elkins Park or the
Thayer residence in Haverford.
The bereaved women, said Mrs,
Thayer. have laid plans to see each
other frequently during this summer
and other seasons. Mrs. Thayer is
still in Philadelphia and Mrs. Widener
is now in Newport looking after the
construction of the Widener family
villa there.
The husbands of the three women
We're friends. They went to college
together and were closely associated
in businss afterward. This is n of
the reasons why the friendship pact
was formed.
The plans that have been laid by
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