Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-03
ANTESUFFS ARE
RAPED BY CREEL
Are Called 1.-THE Mentally IN
employed" by Husband of
Blanche Bates.

George Creel, who was a police com
missioner i'm Denver until he married
Blanche Bates, the actress. and be-
came a magazine writer and suffrage
orator. pleased an audience IN the J.
y. G. A. yesterday afternoon by re-
ferring TO anti-suf,ragists as the
mentally unemployed. The occasion
vas the first OF a series OF monthly
talks under the auspices OF the N ON
ans Political Union.
Mr.. Creel made much of the ''ehlv-
airy buncombe" of Senator James Z.
MARITIME, who is Mr.. Creel said, the
only rival of Senator Tfllman, Of
South Carolina in placing woman
mon pedestal where she does not
belong and does not wish TO be.
You have but to so to the Gran
berry boys of New Jersey 10 see now
Senator MARITIME houses his 'beauulal
women, he declared
Ia speaking or the conditions IN
Colorado he declared that the greatest
evils the people have TO suffer are the
lies and blackguardisms of the East
ssI+hey don't dare say these things
Ia US in Colorado" he continued, sbnI
they come out to US with lunch
basket in one hand and a round frip
fieket in the other and proceed to IN
vestigate our lives, habits and
thoughts"
In speaking Of the strike in The
mines Of Colorado which has been ana
at the door of equal suffrage by me
opponents of the movement, Mr.. Cree
said that suffrage had nothing
10 dc with it. but that all the trouble
grew out of allowing private indiY1-
daals TO seize natural resources.
lie spoke of tho Improvement of the
prison system in Colorado. saving
that the record had changed from
IS per cent of convicts returned to
the peuitentiary to % per cent. re-
turned to the state as useful men, |
bers of society.
In referring to the argument of the
anti-suhragists that enfranehised
women would be oft1eeseekers MI
creel declared that he had otter
thought women did not do their full
DUTY because more of them do not
hold office and the sex in general does
not take a greater interest in national +
politics.
The laws for the betterment o.
women. children and humanity ia F
general originate. he pointed out. i'm
tie suffrage States and are copied
by the suffrage States. He scored
tire New Jersey Legislature for fail
ing to pass the bill legitimatizins
children whose parents marry after +
the children have been born.
When asked why Colorado has such
large divorce rate Mr.. Creel de-
clared that the rate is not larger
than in the other States, adding thai
many people go to Colorado for their
health and find their health in the
divorce court. Instead of making for
divorce, he declared that suffrage
tends to the founding of happy homes,
as il gives the man and the woman
more interests In common. and to
prove that suffrage does not increase
divorce he quoted Judge Lindsey's
statement that none of the many di-
vorces granted was caused by a dit
of opinion in politics.
when you see all the devoted
women with the red cross on their
arms going forth into the firing line.
when you see all the suffering of war
falling on women's shoulders. you
may well ask why they should not
have the vote to stop this awful
swindle" he said. I'VE will never
have a peace worth while unless we
have the women in back of it, not
with silent influence, but with the
power of the VOTE
Mrs. Nina c. Van Wrinkle. president
Of the union, presided, and Mrs Rich
ard i. Newton in a short opening
address urged the women to put their
shoulders to the wheel and push on TO
in 1915. II
Mrs. Frank II. Sommer was hostess
at the tea that followed the program.