The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-07-31
LIQUOR MEN TO Be UNDER FIRE
Women Seeking Ballot to Make Special
Fight Against Liquor Interests De-
clared to be Opposed to the Granting
Of the Ballot to the Fair Sex.


terested In woman suffrage were max
ing to carry on woman suffrage pro-
paganda in this state during the COM
ing two years. The plans are much
more elaborate than most people sup
posed and they are also likely to be
of a more interesting character. The
woman suffrage leaders are much dis
appointed that another woman suff-
rage bill was not allowed to become a
law at this session of the legislature
so that the question might be submit
ted 10 the polls year from next No
vember. They think Gov. McGovern
did the women 9f this state who are
anxious for suffrage material injury
when he failed to sign the woman suf-
frage bill which passed the legislature
providing for second referendum on
the woman suffrage question at the
next general election.
But the women do not blame the
governor so much as they do the real
force which they consider is the back
bone of the opposition to woman suf-
frage in this state. The woman suf-
frage leaders say they have become
convinced that the great faction in the
opposition to the woman suffrage in
this state is the brewing interests,
and that, while the leaders of the
brewing interests who formulate their
plans for political purposes in this
state claim not to be interested in the
woman suffrage question, they are
really the people who are the brains
and backbone of the battle.
In self-defense therefore the women
say that, while up to this time they
have tried to strictly avoid the excise
question in their fight for woman suf-
frage in this state, it is their intention
during the coming campaign to plainly
tell the people that it is the influence
of the friends Of liberal excise meas
ures who are making the real fight
on woman suffrage and that but for
the fight which the supporters Of the
brewers are making Wisconsin would
in the future be woman suffrage
state.
The women admit that they do not
know just what the effect of this open
declaration as to what they consider
are the facts in regard to the excise
question will be, but they say that at
least it will compel the brewers to
come out in the open and plainly pro-
nounce their reason for their opposi-
tion to woman suffrage, which is with
out question fear that if women were
allowed to vote, the result would be
more stringent excise legislation in the
the state. 1t is the belief of the women
that the voters of Wisconsin will not
appreciate the interference of the
brewers in fight over the question of
woman suffrage and that in the end
a plain brewery opposition to woman
suffrage will aid the woman suffrage
campaign.
The campaign of the woman suf-
frage leaders will begin in the state at
once land despite the fact that they
have no referendum bill as basis for
their fight the women who are MAX
ing the battle for woman suffrage will
ask the voters to demand of public
officials who are sent to Madison for
either legislative or executive positions
that they pledge themselves not only
not to block the passage of referen-
dun bill at the next session Of the leg
islature, but also that they will not
fight in any campaign against the
woman suffrage question in the state.
Whether the women will make any
fight on Gov. MeGovern for his atti-
tude on woman suffrage has not yet
been decided
The women declare they believe the
governor was more or less influenced
by political considerations in his veto
of the referendum woman suffrage bill
which was passed by this session of
the legislature but they say that their
fight is for principles, not candidates,
and that therefore, unless Gov. Me-
Govern attempts on the stump to fight
the enactment of the principle of
woman suffrage in this state they
doubt very much if any personal poll
teal battle will be made on him by
the women because of his attitude in
refusing to sign the woman suffrage
bill
1t is the claim of the women that in
making an open declaration in regard
to the attitude Of the brewing inter-
ests, they are not taking the stand be-
cause they desire to do so, but because
they feel the time has come when the
public should know the brewers are
deliberately fighting woman suffrage