The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-07
SUFFRAGETTES
NOT IN UNITY
Ws Cannot Get Along in
. mony at Their Conven-
. ton and Split Into
= Two Factions.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
PEORIA, Ill. Nov. 7-Charging that
by 'hogging' the control Of the Or
ganization the younger element OF the
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association is
imperiling the life of the law giving
Illinois women ballot rights, the old
guard under Mrs. Catherine Waugh
McCulloch of Evanston and Miss Jane
Adams of Chicago today marshalled
their forces in an attempt to obtain
the adoption of legislation which
would give the down state women
the balance of the power.
The "old guard" called attention to
the fact that the victory for suffrage
was due to the votes of legislators
outside Of Chicago and that the flag
rant disregard of down-state women
in the reorganization of the assccia-
tion would embitter them against
Chicago and lose their support in the
impending fight to prevent the repeal
OF suffrage law or its invalidating by
the supreme court.
Meanwhile the followers of Mrs.
Grace Wilbur Trout were oilng up
their steam roller to NOW down the
opposition when the question of adop-
tion of new legislation and the cleo
tion of officers comes up tomorrow,
With majority on the nominating
committee the reelection of Mrs.
Trout as president seemed assured to-
day. The Young Turks however,
were taking no chances and called
for reinforcements from Chicago. Rep
resentatiyes R. E. Sherman and John
Grunau, progressive members of the
assist Mrs. Trout. Sherman and GU
nau were warm supporters of the
women's lobby in the last assembly.
Mrs. McCulloch laughed today at the
report that Mrs Emn. cline Pankhurst,
the British suffragette had been ask
ed to come to Peoria to assist the
"old guard
THAT is one of the best Jokes of
the convention" she said. 'Byery-
body In Chicago knows that was
opposed to Mrs. Pankhursr's coming
to America Mrs. Pankhurst came
here only to get money. She was ad.
vertised by the government and gain
ed more notoriety by its action than
if she had had ten husbands and lost
them. People will pay $3.50 to hear
her because she was in jail and had
tube inserted in her nose. / refused
to sit on on the same platform with
her"
My sympathies are with the down
state" said Mrs McCulloch in p9int-
ing out the peril to the suffrage law.
I'VE Chicagcans cannot be hogs
when we are dependent upon the
down-state for votes. The great mass
of suffrage sentiment is down-state
and they should have proper reprs-
sentation in the organization. TN
stand taken by the Trout faction un~
dcubtedly is menace to the continu-
ance of women suffrage in Illinois.
"It's not political body We do
not mean to be republicans, dem cgaGr
or progressives.
This talk of declaring the woman
suffrage bill unconstitutional is for
the purpose % frightening us and to
take our attention away from the
legislature. We need help in the
Legislature to keep that body from
taking away our rights and we need
the down-state. The control ought to
be down-state. The women outside of
Chicago might get equal rights and
should not blame them If they did,
without giving it to Chicago.
Yes, the convention powers seem
to be very much Trout They have
the nominating commit ee, thr e
members from the political equality
league, one Christian Scientist and
one Monmouth woman, sister OF
one of your Peoria leaders, from city
in which suffrage has received little
support"