South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-24
DECLARES ANTS
WE'RE BULLIED
AND KEPT SILENT
Not a Dissenting Vote Register
ed When Suffrage ReSoIu-
ton Comes Up Before Fed
GRAFTON - Advocates Are
jubiIant.
BY MARGARET TosIN
staff Snecial1

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 24.-The an
tbs" i'm the convention OF the State
Federation of Women's clubs. sat ST.
lent and uncertain Thursday morning
while the resolution endorsing the
suffrage movement went iubilantlv on
accordswithout the sign OF protest.
we bullied them into silence. de-
clared an ardent member of the fran
chise league. after the session was
over We had the minority so scar
ed they didn't dare opn thir mouths
Thy didn't know how weak htey were
and thew were scared
The report of the resolutions com
mittee was called ar0ut noon and the
convention room became suddenly
very still. The two factions had been
promising a fight ever since the oDen-
inc of the convention and the hall was
crowded with men and women who
had come to see.
Mrs. Eva Rohbock OF Wabash. who
had declared her intention of ODDOs-
inc the resolution. sat very close to
the speakers platform. She cleared
her throat and tossed back her head
with a gesture suggestive OF battle
when the chairman of the resolutions
was tdlAu lOAs
Miss Gerde Sebbelov, of Laporte,
left her seat among the delegates and
sat on the steps of the platform to lis
ten TO the reading. Everybody prick
ed up their ears to hear.
Mrs. Virgil c. Lockwood of Indianap~
oils read the resolutions for the chair
man who was taken suddenly ill
Wednesday. She read a long list of
resolutions on various subjects but
nothing relating to suffrage. Finally
she read one returning thanks to In
dianapolis and its citizens for courte-
sizes extended
Anti is Baked
At its close, a woman presumably
an anti" rose in haste TO move the
adoption of the resolution report of
the committee. Mrs. Lockwood inter-
rupted her to tell her of still another
resolution, which as it was preceded
by rather a long preamble, she had re-
served to the last.
Then she began the reading OF the
suffrage amendment The preamble
traced the rise of the feminist move
ment and the various steps that the
pioneers in the movement had aimed
to accomplish. One step was the en-
reimbursement of women, the pream-
bic read. Many of the steps had been
accomplished. it continued. some of
them with the assistance of wOmen's
clubs. And it then resolved that the
federation give its heartiest endorse
ment of the movement TO enfranchise
women all over the world.
storm of applause greeted the re-
solution and when il subsidized another
woman, a suffragist this time. rose
and moved the adoption of the report
as a whole There was a chorus of
seconds and the ayes voted vigorous
". When the president called for the
contrary vote everyone looked at Mrs.
ROhbOck but Mrs. RohbOck never stir
ed. The "anti's remained silent and
the suffrage resolution carried with
the others without a dissenting vote
Mrs Felix T. McWhirter, president
OF the federation. beamed with salts
faction at the success of the reSOlu-
ton. It's passage at this convention
was due TO her good generalship, the
friends OF the resolution declare Her
chief ambition has been to complete
her work as president of the fedora
tion by throwing the influence of the
federation 10 the support of the suf-
frage movement I'm Indiana
The convention had been carefully
planned to lead Up 10 the climax which
came Thursday morning Every SEES
sion added its fuel TO the suffrage
flame AT the club banquet Wednes-
day evening Dr. E. H. I.indley. of In
diana university, convinced the dele
gates that 10 be really good under the
new and enlightened conception of
morality. they must be voters.
Everyone Says Something.
Mrs Grace Julian Clarke of Indian
apOlis. and Mrs. c. c. Curry. Of Terre
Haute. preceded the report of the re-
solutions committee with very able
and very eloquent arguments for wo-
man SURFACE. There was scarcely a
speaker who did not make some refer
ence To IT,
The ~anti's" claim that the suffra-
gists did not make their resolution as
strong as they intended 10 az first.
Girls. il amt that I'm not a suf-
fragist," declared Mrs ROhbOck in
setting forth her reasons why she had
intended 10 oppose the resolution.
I'm a better one than any Of them, -
she continued. There Just isn't any
need of getting suffrage mixed up in
the federation business. The vote is
coming. YOU can't stop il.