Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-04
AMT -SUFFRI AG|STS
INVADE CO |NGRESS
ieaded by Mrs., 20 dge, of N. NJ
They Appeal 4 % House
Connrssdt1 ee.

" ASaTNGToN d &C. 4-Oppoh-
MS of woman suffasxt Re appeared be-
hbre the House Iufes committee TO-
ay to argue why committee on
soman suffrage stlUu Id NOT De ere
led by the HOUSE Inc delesaliol.
Mas headed by NtrE J \. M. Doose' oA
lew York who ygsi erday was re-
lected president Oh ne hauohai as
ociation opposeSp TO woman SUI
The deleeation mi lrched to the
House office building in body. In
What respect they IBL lowed the pan
" The National ann erican woman
uffraga associations vhich yesterday
Z ijent a delegation oil al Early l,VoO Wohl-
IT, 10 present the, aan ffragist side of
olhe argument to- tins ules ccmmlllee.
h. Speakers for the opponents ue
,IaIa5 zvorl,ine yvopnel I were opposed
20 the franchise beta use they Wouio
.ose more than they ouiu gam Inns
Twas in answer TO I'M statement VI
The suffragists th@f .ne WoIhIns
s-onan needed the tn'a nchlse anu was
drrongly in favor OF III
|, It was commended tn at the suffrage
onnnvement was spOrhd &c IN itS naeure
os11ti that the balloO " as Hol Wdi.leu
iyev as many women sn9 tne suIrasisSs
i,leclare 1T was denisa tnat Ihe SUI
uragikt movement hsudt grown 10 such
i,proportions as to dah nano o. nouse
committee. - -
!, Suffragist sympa1nn iere nao peeIl
warned by DR.. Anna Howard shaw
5oresfdent Of their ass ociRuon, 10 re-
main away from dts bearing room
oand give their unufN loed attentioh
TITO the business OF INA suffrage con.
4. Cvention, to which thNy hRd peen sent
Was delegates. -, .,.o.u
h The list Of auti-5ut trasge speakers
o.o5ar incIudad: Mrs. E.. H. Talbot,
dpf Ohio Miss Alice g III Cnlttenoen,
IF New York; Mrs. tobert Garrett
snd Mrs Francis FeGiV 10 pd, of Mary
1and. Mrs d Georq e and Charles
eI TTnderhili of VI massachusetts,;
egosenh q. pyle, of M n nesota; Miss
Vicinity Bisseli of ID 'htware; MISS
minnie Bronson, OF loi yae Mrs. u. d:
vf:onj,U,n and Mrs o. ] }. Oliphant, of
ITSraSsr Jersey: Miss Luz " j. Price, of
pohio DR.. Lucy Ban1 sttr ana MISS
t1Ella A. Abel, of Nc W York MISS
o4siias - Dorsey and Iiils Ella Bre-
nhaut Washington; Nh 50 Buck, new
f,Tarssv: Miss Harding ard Miss Pelt,
1sitteb,,reh pa. and Miss Elizabeth
FMcCracken, of NASSAU h'nsetts'
t Mrs. Arthur Dodge, the leader OF
utba anti-suffrage mn )vement, had
lcharge of presenting al g uments. Sne
3 said the speakers repf esenteo more
( S than ninety thOUsai nd American
women, all over Wctn age his
Mrs Dodge said, was tine more re-
! . markable because Tho SCI women are
9 of class who are MOI; eager TO or
O MISS Alice Chitten len. of New
j York declared the equal suffrage
vquestion was not fed raj one; tnat
! II It should be left to the States. MISS
Z Chittenden said that II ere were more
] than two and a half million women
q of voting age in New York, the ma
q jority of them foreign born, and that
! the anti suffrage WOMEN believed 1t
should not be left to u le' other States
I Into tn whether thew
I y should be added to the New York
y II electorate. woman" said she, has
. attained what she Is today without
4 y the vote The woma who oppose
=. equal suffrage are not drones, nor
y parasites, sitting homsi with our knit
Z o ting. but real cons srvationists of
\ !. womans position in The community,
y as a nom partisan cit izen." To give
y woman the ballot, she believed, would
8 make her mere SD oke in the po-
I. Z lltical machinery"
Mrs Robert Garrett of Maryland,
= declared that THOUSAND Is of women of
\ her State actively opposed woman's
4 n suffrage
Miss Emily Bissell, of Delaware
+ declared that if a mai, ,rity of women
wanted to vote they would settle
n :, she question in the ST. lies.
1.-THE suffragists sal women who
4 y do not want the vote are ignorant,
& said Miss Bissell. IF they are right
y 4 on that then they are wrong IN their
y contention that to ftrce the vote
q upon these ignorant women would
y help the State or upllft the electo-
s !, rate"
Mrs A. j. George, of Massachusetts,
8 characterized the propo nents of equal
K Z franchise rights as Suffrage femin-
ists" 1.-THE anti-suffra gists say that
x the feminist wild riot of individual
ism will die down and the temple of
II service will stand cleat again on the
Is, eternal hills. The little child shall
y r again lead u.s." said she.
SIS Charles j. Underhill, of Massachu-
n sets, declared that the suffragists
n were seeking the suffrage committee
~ for the political influence 1t will give
I. G them in their campaign
VIZ Mr.. Underhll declared the suffrage
: movement had aroused contempt, ia
- miliarity and ridicule" for women. He
r. assert ed that when the suffrage adj
II vocates began their work about the
i legislative halls they were invariably
4 addressed as Mrs" and Miss"
4 Now" said Mr.. Underhill, "the
men champion of suffrage speak of
/ the suffrage workers as Mag or
Your old Mrs. So and So or Sweet
Alice or Dear Susan and the like"
Miss Anna Box, of California, a
former suffrage worker in that State,
asserted equal suffrage was a fail
II ure.