The San Francisco call., 1913-08-01
VOTE FOR WOMEN
PLEA, SIGNED BY
$4,000, IN SENAT TE
Upper House Halts Tariff
Debate to Extend Welcome
to Delegations From
Every State
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officers of THE association and the SEN
ate committee headed the parade At
the capitol II disbanded and "a cloud
Of femininity futtered into the senate
wing.
WOMEN BA- ISH DIGNIFIED HUSH
The dignified hush of the imposing
marble room just off the senate cham
ber was shattered by the demands of
women from various states. that their
cards be taken TO their senator's
The pages were busy nearly an hour
hurrying senators from the chamber
to meet theit constituents" armed
with petitions.
After the petitions had been pre-
sented the delegations focked to the
galleries, where seats had been re-
served and the women suffrage sup
porters on the floor OF the senate took
charge of the demonstration SEN
ators owen. Ashurst, Poindexter Jones.
Works, Lane. Smoot. Clapp. Thomas.
Shafroth and Hollis made brief ad-
dresses indorsing the petitions.
Senator owen officially presented the
petitions to the senate
The reasons for this request on the
part Of the women of the country" he
said, ARE overwhelming and unan-
swerable. and the time has come when
they must be considered with dignity,
with unbiased mind, free from preju-
dice or passion. in the interest of the
welfare of the n an1an raees
Senator Chamberlain made an address
of welcome
We welcome YOU. to the national
capital as the representatives of hun
dreds of thousands of patriotic men and
women of the United States" said he.
You are the bearers of petitions to
congress praying that Justice shalt be
done to the women of the land.
i extend to you cordial welcome
as the bearers of message to the
people of the whole country 10 the
congress Of the United States. and to
express the hope that your mission may
be successful beyond your hopes and
expectations"
Senator Clapp, presenting Minnesota
petitions, made stirring appeal for
the extension of suffrage.
w IaIeFer the fdte OF this present
resolution may be- he declared, "the
time is not far distant, and is inevi-
table. when the American people will
confer on the American women the only
weapon by means of which she can
peacefully defend herself and her chill
dren-the ballot"
Senator Smoot, presenting the Utah
petitions. attacked militancy in the
fight for suffrage.
SUFFRAGE BY REASON
Suffrage should be given. not to the
Pankhursts and the militant radicals
among our women he said, ''but to
those who follow in the womanly foot
steps of the American pioneers for suf-
frage. Mary Ellen Foster, Susan b.
Anthony and others
Senator Poindexter declared the move
ment for woman suffrage was a part
of the general tendency of the age
toward charging the participation of
the people in the government. lie de-
clared it was difficult to conceive of a
valid legal objection to the right of
women to vote. saving that the reason
that men had superior physical strength
no longer was high enough principle
TO substantiate the objection of women
voting
Take a man like Jack Johnson" said
the senator, who at one time was the
champion prize fighter of the world.
If the highest privilege. the highest
right which a citizen can exercise is
to be based on physical superiority, he
would not stand very high in the state
and in the estimation of the people,