The Detroit times., 1913-03-08
BUTTON DAY" BIG Sue
CESS FOR SUFFRAGISTS


fFago campaign. About 800 women
otnrted out Saturday morning. armed
with cash boxes, Votes for Women"
pennants, buttons and air balloons on
the ends Of sticks, with the legend
Vote for Mother on the rubber sur
lace. Mrs. Alexander Mcdonald.
Chx1mxn Uf the button day arrange
ments, estimated that 500 women
would be Ut work during the after
noon.
All the ONCE buildings had commit.
tees stationed In their corridors. and
m the committees reported that they
were very successful. Whether $5,00v
win b raised, however, IL still In
doubt. The exact amont will not be
! lonYned, perhaps, until midnight, fol
& the contributions are In small
amounts. and It will take considerable
time to count the contents Of the 600
\ Doxes.
y About $500 was turned in at SUIT
mage headquarters during the morn
4 hg In the shape Of donations, in
amounts from SIS down.
0ome Of the donors we're Mrs. Fred.
oelck X. Stearns, Miss Clara e. Dyar
I Anthony j. Oostdyk and A. H. Church,
lnthor OF Mrs. Carrie Oostdyk, presi.
shunt Of the Wayne County Equal SUI.
lfaeos league. under whose auspices
hutton day" IL being conducted.
The very first person to buy q suf-
lEnge button was Judge James Phelan.
q the recorders court Judge Phelan.
suDparently, had been loanng about
~ door for some time, for he was
vvh rvr hn mi =
~ found as they emerged from head
lUuaSters. II cost him dollar.
u Justice Jeffries was hung up for .
Dollar in the municipal court build
~. and nearly every other Official
iond clerk there was tagged. In the
county building the committee had
little success, because, mindful Of the
llgnity Of the bench. they did not In
txu6e into the court rooms. They
eaught Judge Van Zile, however, and
they didn't like what he said to them.
Meanwhile, the anti-suffragists were
uot idle. Men went about the street
distributing dodgers ON which the
word "Opposed" was very prominent.
The dodgers read: 1.-THE majority Of
ne women of Michigan do not want
70 vote. We depend upon the men
not to force suffrage upon us. We be-
31eve In woman's rights, primarily In
4er right to be exempt from the added
burdens Of government. Vote no."
When the women In the suffrage
I headquarters were shown one of the
1odgers, they smiled.
Exempt from the added burdens
- government, but not exempt from
oxafion," one of them said. The
B women Of Michigan paid $4,000, 900 in
0xoo last year, and were exempted
2o1 saying what VAS to be done
With their money. Every argument
4 - anttsuRragists use is an argu.
nent for suffrage"
urA. Beatrice FOrbes-Robertson
- viii speak on equal suffrage in
1aes meeting, Sunday afternoon at
caock. In the Church of Our
those desiring seats reserved for
Oh or eight people at the din.
y. q % given Saturday evening In
upper tea rooms where Mrs. Hale
49, speak on equal suffrage, may tele
6 An. o. E. Fischer, No. SO
neseandro Bonci, the famous Ita,.
- ecnor, was visited Friday after
9eo ~ delegation of suffracists. in
yeom u the Hotel Pontchartrain.
was asleep when they called.
s -. manager, on learning who was
IA; +! ss AWAKENED him. Bcnci ap-
oowng and smiling, and
- vosuDly In Italian; evident.
~ ~ rssaroed his English az untrust.
<I.~0v9Vs S0OUxu ne HDQaka sho lau