Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-08-02

Although the WealIleF thlo ptS' l week has been record breaker i'll | the matter of heat and excessive humidity both the President and Mrs. Wilson have remained at the White 1 House. While the president has lost some weight, and does loo kthin and little carewOrn, he is said to have completely recovered from his recent indisposition caused by a severe at | tack of indigestion. He not only has l resumed his ardous duties as chief executive but has regained his cuto~ mary optimism while devoting him self to the strenuous task of straight ] ening out the senatorial tangle and
 meeting the complications which con
 front his policies. MT. Wilson is not only sanguine as to the final resnlt | but expresses it as his belief that the strong opposition which his poll- cics have encountered, particularly 1 in the senate, are "only apparent di1- | ferences, and not at all serious"
 Secretary Bryan scored by Antis. 1 Everyone in Washington is smiling at the typically anti-suffragists tone l of the latest outburst of the amiable i (?l ladies who devote their time and energies to fighting, not for, but 1 against their sister women and who
 berate everyone who does not ad- mir etheir "dog- g-in-the-manger" policy of denying to others what they do not fell the need of for themselves. "Itis quite evident that the Secrc-
 tary of state" says q recent public statement by the antis, "dd not ar rive at the conclusion that women
 are entitled to vote because he hon. estly investigated the question. P'
 came to the conclusion because of
 political expe2diency," The amusing feature of this utterance is the fac; that in the same breath the members of the organization blatantly declare the question of woman suffrage is of
 no political importance. Long ago the uselessness of paying serious at
 tention to the absurdly inconsistenl and illogical utterances of the antis
 was recognized by the foremost suff-
 ragists of the country. "The argu- ments of the antis are just about as
 weak as their organization laugh
 ingly declared Mrs. Raymond Morgan, member of the official board of the Washington Woman Suffrage Coun- cil.
 President Next Recuit.
 Now that MT. Bryan has come out in q strong declaration giving his
 reasons for advocating ''the cause"
 it cannot but be admitted that the ac-
 ccssion of such a prominent official
 and able logician as The Secretary
 fight waged by the National organiza-
 ton. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, it's
 able President, woman whose fame
 as a. suffragists is known the world
 over, states it to be her opinion that
 before long President Wilson will
 himself follow the wise example of
 the foremost members of his cabinet.
 There are many others who will see
 the writing on the wa1l' and make
 haste to climb on the suffrage band
 wagon. There will be nothing in-
 consistent in this, for while it wi"
 be good politics for the authc, @fi
 '"The New Freedom to carr. -Jr of
 practise his own teachvi out ill
 never denied his 6.. ns iings he has
 justice Of the 5- Sympathy and the
 women are ,sicause for which the
 thus far ,,, lighting. He has onlyl
 in far: refused to declare himself
 sist.G6r of "Votes for Women" in- ]. .,. ,lng that he is obliged, af chief , executive, to occupy merely mega tive position until his party states it's position by a new plank in the al- ready famous Democratic platform. However, those close to the President who know his great sympathy and pride ip his daughter Margarets 1 work and his quiet cooperation In her uplft projects appreciate that it ! is only matter ofa short time before. both father and daughter will come out openly and frankly esponse the enfranchisement of all worthy adult citizens of the United States without l sex basis. Mrs. Wesley NJ. Stoner Entertains. Mrs. w. w. Stoner, whose success 1 full organization work in the south as a representative of the National Con- ! gressioaal committee has received l most flattering recognition of her ef- forts, last week while Miss Kate M Gordon of New Orleans, La. was in l Washington invited a distinguished company to met her and her talented hostess, Mrs. Helen H. Gardner. thel author and lecturer, who is also a] member of the congressional commit l tee. Notwithstanding the neat the guests enthusiastically declared the evening a most enjoyable one. Among the people present were ten repre- l sentatives of the sunny south, the | fair daughters of the land of cotton being already among the most stanuch and ardent advocates of the suffrage cause. so ably presented by Mrs. Stoner, Miss I.avinia Eagle, Miss