The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
'ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS
RALLY STRONGLY
ThrOng at Capitol on Second Day
of Hearing Stimulates Interest
Among Legislators
(By Our Staff Corres.)

| legislative hearings on this much
mooted subject became warmer than
ever about the Capitol today following
| the memorable hearing of the oppc-
nents of the principle in the House
chamber yesterday afternoon
So great was the throng pressing
about the doors for admission that the
| members of the House, immediately
committee hearing, literally had to
| fight their way out.
Following the general plan of the
pro-suffragists, the antis were mar
shal1ed by Mrs. Daniel A. Markh am
of Hartford, who made an introduce
| tory speech, and then introduced the
various speakers. Chief among the
women orators was Miss Price of
| Cleveland. Unlike their adversaries,
the ants had gone beyond the con-
4 fines of the state for arguers in their
| behalf, and Miss Price, who is noted
as among the ablest opponents of the
votes-for-wornen cruside,, made an
able presentation of the opposition.
| At the outset she replied to the as
sertion made that $4,000 votes were
cast for woman's suffrage in the last
state election She said it was not
so. Those votes were cast for Theo-
| dore Roosevelt. Eugene H. Chafin,
| and Eugene Debs because they were
| cast for the platform OF those parties
| and not because of the suffrage plank
| in them.
Those $4,000 no more voted for wom-
an suffrage than every man who
| voted for woodrow Wilson voted
against a third term for Theodore
Roosevelt. She said one speaker said
equal suffrage was revolution Miss
Price said 1t was, but not economic
revolution but g. political and social
revolution. The euffragists she said
must prove that conditions OF worn-
+H40f To H.
dams had been held up as a great
political leader. Miss Price said that
Miss Adams was achieving her sue
cess long before equal suffrage was
linked to her fame. Miss Price de-
MED that conditions of women and
children industrial1y and socially in
suffrage states were getting better.
She declared that in Colorado condi-
tions are getting worse
Miss Price said that Mrs. Bennett
yesterday asked why women should
accept municipal suffrage when it is
only an examination. well, why
shouldn't they? They had school suf-
frage and failed Miss Price said.
Miss Price declared women got pure
food and fire protection without the
ballot. She declared that rs per cent
of the impurities in food came from
unclean kitchens. She said women
want to regulate the industries of the
are the most unsanitary. why don't
they make their kitchens pleasant
and induce the girls to work in them
rather than in the factories?" she
asked
h For nearly an hour Miss Price spoke
,scathingly, attacking equal suffrage
and making an appeal for women to
continue in their homely walks in
life to the betternent OF manhood
and womanhood.
Mrs. Cook, another anti. denounced
the methods Of the suferagists and
introduced before an audience that she
said contained many immature girls,
the shocking details OF white slavery
and "'vice in Hartford
Reports were read to show that o.
600 had been enrolled in the anti-suff-
ragist movement in Connecticut.
Senator Perry spoke. saying he was
opposed to equal suffrage because he
did not think it q thing to be forced
upon the women Of the State. Stuff
rage is not a. right; just a privilege
He could not be persuaded that the
States which have equal suffrage have
found it g. benefit to the women or
the State. He believed that if the
ballot was given to women it would
be exercised only by those who would
be driven to vote by male members
Of their family. This would add to
the number of undesirable voters.
what we need is less voting, not
more; we need more intelligent vot-
ing
Senator Quinn of the committee ask
ed Mr.. Perry several Ques tions which
provoked laughter from the suffra-
gists and then a colloQuy.
James P. Woodruff, of LitchfieId
also spoke for the opposition He
spoke OF the change of the committee
on suffrage, ten years ago considered
i01r hut fHa1 Sv,i
the Legislature. He declared that the
men were not asking for a referen-
dunn, and it should not be placed be-
fore them until they want it.
Following the hearing, one of the
pro-suffra gists IN the center of a group |
of enthusiasts launched into an attack
on Senator Perry which attracted |
much notice. Here are some of the |
things she said: |
Judge Perry of Southport claims |
to desire government by the will of |
the people. He is openly advocating
direct primaries and demanding that
the voice of the people be heard. |
When asked at the hearing if he be-
Heved women human beings, he adj
rnitted he did. He added that he did |
not care to see women smoking cigar |
cites nor voting. He upheld the ma
jority of the law and yet Ikened the |
vote to cigarette, both admirable ad-
juncts of manhood! 80
HE believes in the peopue but he |
thinks the right kind of voters do not !
turn out now, thereby intimating that |
he, himself, and the members of the
he was addressing had been |
elected by an electorate of poor quail |
ity.
I'm the next breath, after depIoring |
the quality. of the people, he said it |
was less voters, not more, the state |
needed. Is this a lack of logic in the |
worthy Judge?1
asked by the committee if he be- |
1ieved in the referendum, this advo- |
cate Of the will of the people thought |
for some seconds, and then said, he |
did not believe in the referendum ex-1
cept in constitutional matters
CAS- the vote for women is a con- |