The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-26
RED HOT ARGUMENT
BY SUFFRAGETTE
Takes Governor Ellyson's Seat
in Senate Chamber and Speaks
to Vacant Chairs.
ONE WOMAN APPLAUDS HER
Stony Garden Stands Aghast as
Voting Plea Goes Out
in Scream.

Crushed in the House last February
by an overwhelming vote, woman SUI
frage- blossomed forth anew yesterday
In the Senate. Hard as IA determin ed
opposition fought to strangle the en-
franchisement movcmca; in its in
fancy, and to keep the twentieth cen
tury hercsy from invading the sacred
precincts of tho upper house. the strug-
gle ended in failude. For five minutes
ate chamber echoed TO nimble suf-
frage arguments hurled from the
Presidents chair by a militant suffrag-
cite from Maine.
The clerks about the Capitol tell Of
the invasion with ba,cd breath They
blame IL all Oh stony Garden, boss
of the Senate chamber. when Clerk
Rocker is out of town. aud official
guide to back homers who come TO
view with reverence the Marathon of
blocdless encounters.
She from Maine was iriddle aged and
intellectual. and was accompanied by n
dcmurc young woman Of ;nis city. VINO
had evidently piloted lie. TO the Capt
toll stony took charge OF them in
tho rotunda, calling attention to the
hnc execution OF the Houdon statue OF
Washington, and pointing out the
celebrities in the inches.
Calls Scnnte 10 Order.
Where stony" sinned particularly
was in taking them u the Senate
chamber. The palatiGl. subducd in
terror Of Nirginia's upper house SEEM
ed to awaken memories of pact tri-
umphs IN the Caption at Augusta.
Maine, and in moment the elder OF
the two climbed into Llcutenant-Gov-
ernor Ellyson's antique chair on the
raised dais and raped the house TO
order
Her companion took the seat occu-
pied during the recent Session ty
president pro TEN. Edward Echois,
facing the presidents chair stony
stood at attention near the door
through which he could escape if 1t
became necessary. journal Clerk II.
G. Shack lcford. nard AZ work on the
Senate journal in an adjoining com
mittee ROOM heard the commotion and
poked an inquiring had out OF the
officer. he withdrew hastily and took
long drink of ice water FOR a brac-
or.
Injustice Must End.
Men and women Of Virginia. said
the speaker from the sovereign State
o; Maine, addressing stony" and
the demurc young woman In Senator
Echols's seat lit is time for this
unjust discrimination against women
10 end. Let the Old Dominion, re-
nowned in song and story as the true
home of chivalry and the cradle or
American liberty, be the first of her
Southern sisters To remove the yoke
of centuries from the neck OF her
women"
Clerk shackleford. welding busy
fountain pen, halted it in midair as
the last words 'roke upon mis- ear
There was something tragic about
those words--"the neck of her wo.
men"-they were the only ones that
his car had caught. lie scented a
crisis and took another drink of ice
water. En- route to the cooler, ne was
hailed by the orator.
Come In and hear the apeech." she
invited.
Thanks. but I'm awfuily busy re
piled shaclleford, guipine the ice wa
ter in big gulps.
Audience AppInuds.
The speaker continued:
How long will you men continue to
treat us women like children and
dolls. Don't we read the same news
papers and magazines? Aren't We cdu-
Gated at the same schools? Don't we
both study hygiene and political econ
cinN, 20 TO the same picture shows.
eat the same dairy lunches. get
squeezed In the same street cars? And
don't VIC both so TO baseball games?
Then. why this Discrimination? Why
can't !. as woman. choose as intelli-
gently between Roosevelt and Taft as
the naturaliZed Norwegian who drives
my limousine? say 1t is an out
rage, nien and women of Nirginia"'
Both of the audience fpplauded loud
and long. Shackleford. who had lis
tened in awe ut the first female Pres
ident Of the Senate. shut the door
rcsolutely and took another drink or