The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-21
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
HAS GOOD START
eaventy- Seven Women Ready
10 Join-Many Others
Expected
micS ENGLE SPEAKS
ENGIE SPEAKS
MARYLAND Leader Makes Sp|en-
did lmpression-Dr Archi-
bald Henderson Presents
Her in Beautiful Speech
Judge Clark With the Cause.
No Mlitancy Sentiment.

MARYLAND girl OF twenty-one
49,, IAN. graceful, pretty and smart,
ii,Tr.d Equal Suffrage yesterday to a
ta,.sr audience than any perSpIrlng
Dolti,ian has had in a hundred years,
I'D she started something
That's the street for the palpabie
,t that attended the appearance of
a. Levinia Engle here yesterday IN
w. House OF Representatives. h
cama hece in nice feminine cloths,
- much more than the
nan who didn't like her coming, and
has lett the city without hurting it
a.. an The women who heard her
and cheered her address, returned to
their homes finding everything there
ard intact. Not a sound has been
heard nor . funeral note.
Sixtv-eavan the major por-
tom married. signed the cali so to
.neah. Their signatures were taken
and they are eligible for membership
IN thp league when it meets n or
soniz-s Friday afternoon, April "a.
~ this week. The league Will meet
again that day and organize for bust
ness IT is expected that one hun
dred viii enter it as charter members
and that Raleigh will lead the State
III tHG kiAtAAbtA ~ ND
the ballot.
The league did not go far until it
put 8 gentle and pretty foot upon the
methods Of the militant sisters across
the sea. tt set itself Alright and in
two minutes DR.. Archibald Hender-
Nor. who introduced Miss Engle, was
well into i speech hat admits no an
swer among reasoning men. The Uni
versity mar did not make his ap-
proach By the ad hominen. nor by
the ad feminam appeal. He talked
g. best in men n III
\ Great Pageant.
Dr. Henderson said: 1t has been
my good fortune at one time or an
other TO witness some remarkable
pageantS. [ think especially of the
cornation procession Of King George
and Queen Mary of England, the mil
itary funeral Of the French Minister
Of War in Paris. the May Day Mar
tIai demonstration in Berlin. But
nothing has ever moved me SO pro
foundly as the great procession in
behalf OF equal suffrage in London
Oh June 1S. 1910. My wife and L
who were witnesses and participated
IN that moving spectacle, realized theI
aS never before the deeper meaning
tho splendid. tragic earnestness o
mat great upheaval of human cOn
sclpuSnesS. Here was q triumphan
Nindlcation Of woman's power Of or
ganlzation and of consolatiOn-on'
SOLD ph3lanX animated with a sin
gle mind and a single purpose. II
TINS procession, taking hours to pas
a single point, and expressing al
phases of opinion, action, profession
ana creed, were represented NOR,
tnll In EArIntinc or
branches; the martial note wa
sounded by more than forty bands
anu At frequent intervals appeare
banners bearing such inscriptions q
ldNdtlon without representation
tyranny the longest day has a
Vho' Live or die with honor" "Hea
:. oid Europe, We have sworn tn
ueath 10 slavery and This mount
'hS wave will roll us shore-war
SooA At the head Of the woman
SoC4'i and political union was Law
.tuee Houseman's beautiful banner
rom Prison to citizenship" an
'ol9"'ng after, carrying %glitterir
~ spears with iuttering. parti-co
Vty' demons. came the Gil women
NV anon wac had suffered impri
'%Nnent and even physical torture f.
Nm cause tapplause). 1t is impo
go - enumerate all the differel
""htS represented; the Women
''''ola league; the eight hundrt
"'i,'n graduates. resplendent in ii
,''t'' and gold of their academy co
artists. actresses. author
"eated women workers fro
worcestershire mills. cheek
WIN members of the titled II
with duchesses and cour
P'"a'al of Human Consciousness
look back now upon THAT CT
MAJ, demonstration in behalf Of n
i HPerty; that great upheaval
- tonsciouSness: [ cannot b
,h,,t the mounting wave
- Hpon one OF the banne
mat DAY. Is at last hoping W
II, "ls"rmost fingers the shoes of Q
commonwealth.
=r'ateat reform Of the prese