The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-05


| With the process of the suns
William Bryant.
| BY FRANK L. HUFFAKER.
Tallahassee, May 4-That the sad,
hopeless note of the Persian note
has indeed given place to the fmmut-
able truth voiced by one of Americas
grandest, sweetest. singers, was unmis-
| takably shown in the house of repre-
sentatives Friday morning when
twenty-six legislators, representing
both city and rural districts, emphat-
/ ically placed themselves on record as
! fdvoring the submission of the woman
| suffrage constitutional amendment to
| a vote of the men of Florida-this in
| spite of the fact that no active cam
paign had been waged in behalf Of
! equal citizenship in the state, and only
g small delegation of Florida women,
| at their own expense and inconven-
fence, made two trips to Tallahassee
TO fight in behalf of their cause and
that of their sisters including the
paltid- faced, hope deadened, droop-
shouldered toilers in the sweatshops
of the cities where Mammon reigns
supreme.
Had the work been actively pros
ecuted there is no doubt but that the
necessary three-f1fths vote would have
been recorded in the house, and the
senate, several leaders of which are
ardent suffra gists, would doubtless
have done likewise Furthermore, had
the question been left to the men and
women who packed the house to hear
the speeches, the ayes" would GER
tainfy have chad it" Unfamiliarity.
coupled with the fact that they had
received no instructions from the
folks back home" prevented many
good men from casting their votes in
the affirmative. This vote is but
prophecy of what the future holds in
store for the legislature converting two
years hence is confidently expected by
the champions of the equal citizenship
cause to submit the momentous ques-
ton. In fact, a campaign with this
end in view will be inaugurated i'm
mediately
Pathos and Comedy.
Both pathos and comedy played
parts in the fight on the floor of the |
house, and in more than one instance |
injustice, intentional or unintenttonal, |
was done the ladies who appeared in |
behalf Of the cause. The statement |
Stanford Of Osceo1a, leading off, that |
northern women had come down to |
Florida to foist equal suffrage on the |
people. AS matter Of fact, every wo- |
man in the delegation, with the ex- |
ception of Miss Jenneatte Rankin. who |
was sent down from the national head |
quarters in Washington at the request |
of the Florida ladies, was a native |
of this or some other southern state, It |
is said. Among them was Mrs. r. NJ. |
Cody of Jacksonville. a leader among
the Daughters Of the Confederacy and
the D. A RS, and Mrs Frederick Locks
OF Jacksonville, who had seven uncles
and other relatives IN Lees army one
of whom was killed in the battle of |
the wilderness at the age of fourteen.
The ladies making the pilgrimage de-
clared that they represented many
prominent Florida women, who were
kept at home on account Of their
babies and household duties, and
prominent Florida men as well.
Mr.. Stanford, who made a strong
appeal against submission spoke of
the traditions and memories of the
'old South" and voiced what he con-
sidered to be the sentiment of the
South of today, with which the cham
pions OF suffrage disagreed. Mr..
Stanford is the proud possessor Of a
very bald shiny pate, and as he
wa xed warm in his argument perspira-
ton streamed down the aforesaid bald.
shiny pate, causing it to resemble
early morn was streaming. Through
out the oratorfcal fight, the Osceola-
tie drank copfous draug1nts Of Ifmptd
water the inspiring effects Of which
proved a problem too profound for Mr.
wor.ey of Dade, who afterward made
magnfh cent argument in favor of
submission of the amendment, al
though he said he would vote ad-
verseIy at the polls. Mr.. Stanford,
who is a native of good old Alabama,
realizes that the cause of equal citi-
viii eventually win, even in
,,Ir. own southland, but like the old
gent, who tired to sweep the waves
going TO "stay on the job" TO the fin
sh.
Bible Against Suffrage.
Rev. O'NeiiI, who combines the char
lcteristics of the weeping willow and
he sycamore Of the wabash and
Who was dubbed Foxy Grandpa" by
EQUAL citizenship, gave vent to the be-
ief that suffrage does not harmonic
With the word of Cod" and he like Z
wise sprink1ed a few teardrops from
he apex o Mount OIympus-and
here wasn't an umbrella in the house
)ne could not look upon Mr. O'Nei1l.
Without being reminded of "Racheal
weeping for her children" and The T
Widows of Asher are loud in their wall, >
or their idols are broke in the temple
4 Baa1." Oh, the prospect of women S
.eing allowed vote was so gloomy to .
Ir. O'NeiH that a visitation of the G
1agues that were sent on the Children
srnYVId ha GLnHad a