The Detroit times., 1913-03-27
"ANTIS" OBJECT TO ONE
BALLOT FOR ALL ISSUES
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Printing of the amendments on sep
arate ballots. Judge Durfee, chairman
OF the election commission. will hold,
Will give encouragement TO fraud. both
In casting and counting the votes,
which would be avoided II but a single
ballot Is used
Very encouraging reports are being
received from all parts of the state by
Mrs. Edna Blair state organizer for
the suffragists.
Saginaw county is showing great
activity" said Mrs. Blair, Thursday.
There. as in many other counties, an
association Of both men and women
has been formed. In Manistee, the
association has a membership OF 200.
and is aiming at the 500 mark. In
Kalamazoo, the organization Ia striv-
ing for 1000 members, and will get
them before the end Of the campaign.
Last week, 200 new names were en-
rolled. In Sault Ste Marie, so wom-
EN- attended the first organization
meeting They have ordered 1000
buttons. Mrs. Glendower Evans will
be sent there to speak.
Mrs. Cora LETTERS. who has charge
of the organization work in the up
per peninsula, with Mrs. Cora Ander-
son, OF LAnse, and Mrs. James T.
Moore. Of the 800" has arranged an
itinerary for Mrs. Beatrice Forbes
Robertson Hale which Will take her
TO all the important cities OF the
region during the last week OF the
campaign.
In Huron and Sanilac counties, In
the thumb. much good work has been
done by Mrs. CelIaSWhire, OF BOSTON,
who Is now In Alpena and Pressure
Isle counties. Mrs. Priscilla Hack
staff has four meetings In MacomD
county this week. On Friday she will
speak In New Baltimore. while Mrs.
Susan Fitzgerald speaks In Mt. Glenn
ems, and Miss Doris Stevens, OF Day
ton, In New Haven.
Mrs. Ella S. Stewart. OF Chicago,
member OF the executive board OF
the national suffrage association, ana
for six years president OF the Illinois
association. has held IS factory meet
ings In Grand Rapids. and has swung
MANY ANTI" votes In Kent and MUS
kegon counties for suffrage. omar
Garwood. of Colorado. will go TO Mus
kegon next week TO speak for US"
Mrs. Clara b. Arthur has issued
statement In behalf Of the officers or
the Michigan Equal Suffrage assocta-
ton. defining its position regarding
political parties.
This association Is working for
equal suffrage and for nothing else,
saws Mrs. Arthur. THE association
belongs TO no party. and has never In
dorsed the platform or affiliated with
any political organization. No. class
OF voters when enfranchised has ever
been asked TO which political party
they would give support. IL the wo-
men of Michigan should be compelled
10 pledge themselves TO any party 10
obtain the ballot. that very fact would
debar them from the free exercise or
their voting privilege. After women
have been enfranchised, II viii Soe
every woman's- own opinion, as IL
now is mans, which will decide how
she shall use the ballot
A big Italian mass meeting VIII be
held In Freedman's hall, Sherman and
Hastings-sts., on Saturday evening.
April S. IL will be addressed by Mrs.
Jennie Law Hardy. who speaks ltal-
ian fuently aignor Giuseppe Barto-
lotta will sing. Mrs Hardy Is an hon
orary member of prominent Italian
society In Rome.
An indoor meeting was held, Thurs
day noon. In the plant OF the Detroit
Lubricator Co A meeting was held
at 2.45, Thursday afternoon, In the
Messiah Lutheran church, Mrs. Eliza
beth Schauss making the address in
German
Al 1:45, Thursday evening. Miss
Doris stevens, OF Dayton. Will address
a mass meeting In Bethany Presby-
terrain church.
In spite OF the deep snow. about so
men turned up at the town hall meet
ing In Rediord. Wednesday evening.
and were addressed by Miss Garrison,
and others. They said that whatever
might be the condition Of the roads.
they would surely turn ont on April
: to vote for suffrage.
For the -suffragists, the Rev.
William Byron Forbush and Miss
Lucy Pierce will speak. Friday night.
In the auditorium OF the Hotel Pont-
chartrain Judge Alexis G.. Angel or
Sidney T. Miller will probably be the
| chairman.