Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-10
.SUFFRAGIST HOPE
. FROM LAWMAKERS
Senator Davis and Assembly.
man Egan Predict Success
of Equal Rights Bill.

suffragisis OF northern New Jer-
sew held a rally in the Bijou Theatre,
Orange, yesterday. State Senator j.
Warren Davis. Of Salem county, and
AssembIyman Isgan. chairman of the
judiciary committee of the House, as
gured the gathering that the suffrage
referendum would be passed by the
Legislature. Assemblyman Egan
went a step further and said hs
would use some Of the women's argu-
ments in his fight for the measure on
the floor of the House.
Miss Inez AIilholland was at the
meeting. So were Mrs. Philip Mckim
Garrison and Mrs. Minnie ]. Reyn-
olds.
Senator Davis said he has complete
faith that New Jersey will soon be
added to the suffrage group OF States.
He told the assemblage the proposed
constitutional amendments might
provide short cut to securing votes
for women here.
Former State Senator Everett
Colby was also present. He gave a
short talk IN which he paid a fine
compliment to Miss Alice Jaynes, sec
retary of the Consumers League,
who has been aiding him in seeking
to end the garment workers strike
He declared she is better equipped
to represent Essex than any senator
this county has had in the last ten
years. This, he said, included him
self.
Garment Workers Present.
Another conspicuous figure was
former Governor ]. Franklin Fort.
Mayor Frank J. Murray, of Orange,
sat with him on the stage. Several
girls. numbered in the ranks Of the
striking garment workers, were in
terested auditors. They sat on the
stage and were championed by
Samuel Levine, who spoke in their
interests
Miss Milholland told why women
believe they are entitled to the bal
lot. She was compelled to resume
her talk after she had stopped be-
fore her time limit.
Mrs. Garrison presided and Mrs.
Minnie Reynolds gave a sprightly
talk. Mrs. Everett Colby, who heads
the suffragists in this section as
chairman of the associated groups Of
suffrage organizations. was also a
conspicuous figure. The Rev. Mr..
Weir, of Montclair. opened the meet
ing with prayer. II was closed with
the unanimous passage of the usual
resolutions asking aid of the senator's
and assemblymen.
In his advocacy of women suffrage,
Senator Davis said:
81 am here in the interests Of the
best part OF humanity. and that is,
in the interest of women. From close
observation women are much better
in every way than men. Therefore
It IS not surprising that men seek
women's society in order to get into
good company. Statistics prove that
crimes committed by women are in
finitesimally smaller than those COM
mitted by men. II any part Of hui
mainly should be helped, IL is the
best part, and that is the women.
so important has become woman's
place in the industrial world that If
every woman in New York City alone
were 70 walk out of her position,
business would be demoralized and
paralyzed.
All of the great institutions OF the
world are open to women and many
of the first prizes are taken by them.
When l was a student in Leipzig
and Berlin more prizes were taken
by American women than men. Our
public schools would have to close
il women were Withdrawn from the
teaching force.
"Women, 1 am glad TO say, have at
tanned liberation and freedom. A
woman was formerly only chattel
of her husband, and had no legal
entity aside from her husband. He
and she are one. but he was that one.
Until recently the property Of wife
became subject to the debts of her
husband. 1t was also at one time
impossible for a woman to make a
will Independent of her husband, and
until a year ago in this State if a
woman had claim for an injury she
had to press, the claim in the name
of her husband.
II see no reason in the world why
a woman should not have the right to
have a choice in the selection of the
great political leaders of the country.
! believe in granting to women what
they ought to have and what I be-
lieve God intended them to have, q
voice in that which concerns the well
fare of the human race. After the
eighteenth of this month I thorough
~ believe New Jersey will ada one
more sign TO its progressiveness."