Evening star., 1913-12-07

shy at this term. but glory in it-sought
ever to inspire the legislators with the
Righteousness of their cause and III
vast number of cases succeeded.
You can't turn or tempt a man with
the vision of truth in his SOUL" she eX-
claimed, amid applause
The Big Four was the name af-
fectionately bestowed by Miss Adams on
the lobbyists who engineered the suffrage
bill at Springfield. For 1.-The Big Four"
Antoinette Funk revealed the plan Of
campaign that resulted in the passage of
the suffrage bill, despite the fact that
the suffrage proposal had been defeated
two to one in the preferential primary.
The same legislature defeated the initia-
tive and referendum bill. although the
principle of that legislation had been in
dorsed in the primary.
Never was a legislature so completely
card-catalogued." declared the fair lob
byist. She proceeded to describe the fol-
low-up system. whereby the sIffragsts
brought TO bear on the hostile or doubt
ful legislator every sort of pressure they
could muster through their constantly
increasing knowledge of his personal, po-
litical and business affiliations. and the
social and club affiliations of his wife and
daughters
Whenever we found a legislator who
said women wouldn't use the vote if they
had 1t. or that it was not expedient or
that his constituents didn't want it. we
had our organization in his district edu-
cate him. If there wasn't an organiza-
tion we created one
Great Tact in Publicity.
I'VE avoided publicity at first, in order
not to alarm the hostile politicians Later
We opened up through the newspapers.
starting a fire from each doubtful mem
ber's home district and concentrating the
opinion of the state on this question to
convince the legislature that the state
wanted the suffrage bill passed.
IL remained for a daughter of the late
Senator Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio to
give the most vivid and practical descrip-
tion of how the women of Illinois are en-
ploylng their new influence. As she told
OF now the women turned the searchlight
OF publicity on the record of judicial
candidate because of his close affiliation
with the corporations, contrast was
forced between the new order that she
represented and the old of which her dis
tlhSuished father was the foremost rep
resentative, when. in 1896. he raised from
the great corporations the largest fund
ever subscribed for a presidential candi-
date, William Mckinley
"hen Mrs. Mccormick and several of
nef co-Workers in the suffrage cause were
az the Illinois state fair at Springfield
they were approached by politicians who
forthcoming judicial election campaign to
HI a vacancy on the state supreme court
bench for the fifth judicial district of the
state They replied that the suffrage
law did not permit women to vote for
judicial candidates, therefore, that their
attitude was of no Importance. They
Were assured that their mere votes were
not so important as their attitude.
Success on the Stump.
The result was that several of the suf-
frage leaders took the stump in the fifth
district. They found that most of the
voters We're unaware that an election
was at hand, uniformed as to the per-
sonality and the identity of the candi-
dates and unintelligent as to their rec
ords. This, despite the fact that the as
pirant elected would sit on the highest
bench in the state and be depended on to
deal out justice to all.
We avoided the personal equation as
far as possible explained Mrs. McCor-
mick, judicially, because we thought
that in the recent presidential campaign
there had been too much personality and
too little discussion of the actual is
sues
She explained how the women had
opened fire on one of the candidates
whom she considered an especially dan
gerouS candidate because of his high per-
Sonal standing in the community, cou-