Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
SUFFRAG|STS TRY
TO WIN MAYORS
State President Pays for Their
Subscriptions to the .'Wom-
ans Journal"
Especial to The Evening start


MADISON, April 14.--Representa-
tives of the different woman suffrage
organizations in Morris county and
some from other towns were present
yesterday In the Y. NJ. C. A. building,
when the ways and means of attain
ing women's rights were discussed.
Some of the municipalities represent
ed were Morristown. Madison, Sum-
nit. Chatham, Boonton, MontclaIr
and Plainfield.
Mrs. e. H. Felchert, president of
the New Jersey Suffrage Association,
presided.
Mrs. Feickert stated that the pur-
pose of these conferences is to get
the workers together with a view to
selecting county chairmen, who will
be responsible for their district The
speaker stated that she had paid
number of four-month subscriptions
to the Woman's Journal, a suffrage
paper, edited by Alice Stone Black
well, and had sent them to the may
ors of different towns and cities. She
stated that she had found the CONVEX
sion of mayors to be cheap at 20
cents apiece. She also enlarged upon
the responsibility of every woman
suffragist in the election on this ques-
ton, which will be held in Septem-
Der, 1915.
"You must convert the majority of
the voters in your community" she
said. THE women will make little
difference in this election; it is the
man we want to favor the issue
There are two methods of converting
the population of a place, political
and social. The former is used mostly
in large cities and the other in coun-
try districts. The political method is
useful after the movement Is well
under way by the social plan"
Suffrage Day May 2.
The speaker eulogized the New Jer
sey papers, which had given good
space to the cause. She called atten-
ton to Suffrage Day. on May and
said that a number of papers have
given pages and some the whole
paper to be edited and printed by the
suffragists on that day. In reference
to the distribution of literature, she
said that the greatest of tact should
be used. She said that one should
not tell in a Brooklyn rally how
In their political work the women
have adopted the same methods used
by the male politicians. Mrs. Feick
ert said that it would be fooliShness
to try any other and the men have
had so much experience in this line
that they know what is best.
"You ought to know who is in favor
of and who against the movement;
what voters have to be bought and
who will give their votes on the
merits of the issue. We intend to
make use of the actions of some of
our legislators, who promised to vote
for the measure providing for the
submission of the question to the
people and who afterward did not ap-
pear at that session of the Legisla-
ture at which the issue was decided"
The speaker commended the method
of getting up a petition in the home
town of a legislator and sending 1t to
him. She said that an assemblyman
or senator is elected to represent his
constituents and If he does not do so
he is disloyal. The "antis," she
stated, did a great deal of lobbying
at Trenton, but that those in favor of
the movement did not resort to this
method. She recommended that when
a league is asking for money for the
cause that they ask 1t for some def
mite purpose and not for general
fund.
Mrs. scott Tells Experiences.
Mrs. George Scott, of Montclair
was called on to tell of some of her
experience, and of the work in her
particular locality.
"I find she stated, that the
women's clubs throughout the State
are as a rule against equal suffrage.
The large majority of themembers
of these organizations are antis." She
declared that she Is in favor of the
distribution of literature at all meet
ings. The political plan in Montclair,
she said, has received the Corpora
ton and admiration of the men. She
thought that this method is the best
to win with, and the best to main
tain results after the battle Is won.
Plans for May 2 were told of by
the members of the different leagues.
In Madison there will be an open
air meeting with music and much
literature and advertisement of the
affair. The meeting will be held. in
Waverly Square.
DR. Mary Hussey, of Orange, who
has been in harness for the cause
for a number of years, told of the
beginning of the agitation in this
State. She said that Lucy Stone, of
New England, was the pioneer suf-
ragist in New Jersey. She related the
ups and downs of the cause in an
interesting manner. She declared that
the woman suffragists are the only
real daughters of the Revolution,
which was fought against taxation
without representation" Mrs. Hussey
spoke in favorable terms of the
Woman's Journal, which has been
in existence for twenty-four years.