Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-20


 day There were no banners flying like yesterday. but the gathering was fully as large The committee on con- stitutiona1 amendments sat for it's amendment which would strike the word male from the organic law Of the state. The anti-Suffragists had the opportunity to say what they thought Of suffrage Before the house adjourn ed women were in the chamber and many were pressed closely against the doors waiting for entrance.
 The anti-sunragiSts were clearly in displayed, as the suffrage advocates had their day in court yesterday. The antis were distinguished mostly by knots of red ribbon on their jacket
 Votes for Women advocates with sashes offered suffrage buttons.
 Disputes Claim of 5o,ooo Votes.
 Mrs. Daniel M Markham of Hart ford presided and presented each speaker. The plan called for many nature of a report on the numerical strength of local leagues organized against equal suffrage The speaker who was intentIy listened to and charmed all was Miss Price of CleVe- land, who took up practically every claim of every speaker on the propo- nents' side yesterday. At the outset she replied to the assertion made that
 
 suffrage in the last election She said it was not so. Those votes were cast for. Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Chain and Eugene Debs because they were cast for the platforms of those parties. not because of the suffrage plank in them
 Conditions Getting Worse in Colorado.
 Those 5o.000 no more voted for woman's suffrage than every man who voted for Woodrow Wilson voted -<7~--1~ Roosevelt She said one speaker said equal suffrage was revolution. Miss 1 Price said it was, but not economic l revolution but political revolution TEe | sUnragists, she said, must prove that | conditions of women are wrong. She said that Jane Addams had been held up as a great political leader. Miss Price said that Miss Addams was equal suffrage was linked to her fame. Miss Price denied that conditions of women and children. industria1ly and socially, in suffrage states were get orado conditions were getting worse She declared Judge Ben LinsIey was l . suffragist simply to get votes
 Underworld Vote Gets Out.
 She quoted him as saying that if ony one woman wants suffrage in q county she should have it. Miss Price said that the best women in Colorado have accepted that dictum and stay at nome rather than vote, and when Judge Lns1ey wanted an office he had 1 to go from door to door, begging won- ] en to come out and vote, to offset the worst vote of the underworld. ( Miss Price said that Mrs Bennett 1 yesterday asked why women shoul1 | accept municipal suffrage when it is ,n1y an examination Well why . they? They had school sui rage and failed" Miss Price said
 Reference to English Miiitants. T For nearly an hour Miss Price spoke l Icathins1y, attacking equal suffrage md making an appeal for women 70 continue in their honely walks of life Y Fornanhood Miss Burnell of Hartford, another a peaker, said in closing her argument: z What do the frenzied and brutal acts promise? Is it stability in govern nent2 Look out for the oYerwrought D ierves of women" D Arthur c. Graves of New Haven said q hat women are the conservators and he creators of all the noble things m fife which go in human character. The t 'allot is simply piece of machinery n 0 register decisions at the ballot box, | decisions made by the community long u efore the election, and the decisions N T which all the forces in the com 1unfty have entered into and tended 0 awards the result a Would Key Women to Pitch Of Hys- s
 teria. B Mrs. Anse1 c. Cook said that equal ? unrage Is bad for the nation and bad V or women by keyfnS them to the pitch W 7 hysteria. The antf-suffragists were resent to defend their homes. AS . 1re1y economic question the purity of he home must be maintained. Women Then they outnumbered men would V ake advantage of their opportunity.
 Men have always been fair towards omen in efforts for their general irn- roVement. Mrs. Cook denounced tEls pread by speeches and literature tho n oathsonae detafls'' of the white slave ' -affic and of vice in Hartford" hav- 7 7 lg a meeting at a theatre at which z oung and innocent girls attended, only . , giggIs and be amused by the har- 2 owing stories of immortality. ? 2,oco Women Enrolled Against Suf- A
 frase. ri Mrs. Ladd of New Haven read u ewspaper clipping in which there was II B expression of surprise a the treat A lent of women in the parade st She said that she did not 5 eiieYe American men are yet trained look for pure wofnanhood in tha fiddle of the street" S Reports from local leagues were gfv- l, showing that some 12,666 antis had sen enrolled,
 Want Fewer Voters. Not More, A Senator Perry then spoke, saying he bi as opposed to equal suffrage because e ; did not think it 8 thing te De d reed upon the women of the state, tf afffage is not right: just a priv It .ge. He could Hot be persuaded that bi s states which have equal suffrage B. we found it a benefit to the v0f47eEa l S4 the state. He believed that if the 1 tt Liiot was given te women it would Ia exercised only by those Whe would eT . driven to vote by male members of fe Ai would a iHbei. of undesirable voters. What g need is less vetiHg, not more; We et led more intelligent yetiRs,