Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-03
SUFFRAGISTS HOLD
TWO BIG RALLIES
Crowds in PasSaic and Jersey
City Hear Pleas for
Votes.
PROMINENT MEN PRESIDE
AT BOTH DEMONSTRATIONS
Legislature Called Upon to Sub
NIT Quetsion to
People.

PASSAIC. y. J.. Feb. s.-Twenty-
five hundred persons crowded Into
The Montauk Theatre here yesterday
afternoon to hear Mrs. Forbes-Robtrt
son Hale. the actress. and Mrs. Minnie
J. Reynolds. legislative secretary of
the Equal Suffrage League in New
Jersey. speak on equal suffrage.
Originally Mrs. 0. H. p. Belmont
aud Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper We're
to have addressed a suffrage meeting
here but after he high school
auditorium and Smith Academy had
been refused them. and a fight be-
tween two branches of suffrage work
ers here over Mrs. Belmont. both sent
word that it would be absolutely i'm
possible for them to come here
Bird Wilson Spencer, former Mayor
and Inspector general of rifle prae-
i tise of the State of New Jersey pre-
sided II was the first big suffrage
meeting here, but enthusiasm ran
high. Congressman-eleet Robert G.
Bremner. who advocates suffrage;
United States Senator-eleet William
Hughes and Mrs. Hughes. who also
advocate the franchise for women,
and Joseph A. Delaney and William
+. Kerwin. members of the Assembly
from this county. and former State
Senator John Hinchliffe were in the
audience.
Ask Legislatures Aid.
Resolutions were passed calling up
on Passaic County's representatives
Of the Legislature to vote for bill
putting the question of equal suffrage
before the people of the State at a
special election.
In explaining the militant campaign
in England, Mrs. Hale said only two
of the fifteen suffrage bodies in that
country were Militant and one OF
these was only half and half, so the
real militant organization was headed
and practically owned by Mrs. and
Miss Pankhurst. She said:
"They directed it and the members
followed like soldiers who carry out
orders, though they do not know
what they are given for. The Pank-
bursts thought the only way to get
anything from the men was to make
them uncomfortable. AS men best
know their business, women best
know theirs housekeeping, the care of
babies. the conservation of human
life, ETC." the speaker said, through
the ballot they could regulate these
matters as they cannot do so now.
Given the vote they would not have
stood for the removal of DR.. Harvey
Wiley from the government service. u
she said.
scores Atlantic City.
Mrs Reynolds spoke of the accom-
plishments of equal suffrage and said
that New Jersey would come into the
fold in a reasonable course of time.
She referred to the local conditions
seldom. but on one of these occasions
eaid
Atlantic City is one of the worst
cang-ridden little burgs in this State
They told me so themselves.
Jersey CITY, Feb. 3.-The Orphe-
I'M Theatre was crowded yesterday
afternoon during a discussion of the
question of equal suffrage, held I'M
der the auspices of the Peoples Insti-
tute. Assembly1nan Charles Egan
presided and addresses were made by
Assistant City Attorney Thomas
Haight and Mrs. E. F. Feikert, presi-
dent of the New Jersey Woman's Suf-
frage Association. A number of wom-