Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-19
SUFFRAGISTS At
BENNINGTON AS
TOUR NEARS END
SIow-Moving Pigs Meet Them
at BIairstown and Delay
the Trip.
Irrom a star Correspondence

PENNINGTON, June 19.-Weary
after two days of strenuous cam
paigning, but still as enthusiastic as
when they left Newark, the suffra-
gists who are touring the northern
section of the State arrived here
about noon today The usual meet
ings and speeches which have
aroused SO much enthusiasm for the
cause of women's suffrage, were
made and then the party left their
four automobiles for a short lunch
con. The next stop on the itinerary
will be at Trenton.
The first town visited today was
Clinton. The party came here from
Easton, Pa, just across the Della
ware, where they stayed over night
at the Huntington Hotel. They were
received there by Miss Eleanor Geb-
hart, daughter of Senator Gebhart.
This is the third and last day of
the campaign. The tour will con-
clude at Princeton Inn, where the
party is due to arrive about o'clock.
Here Assemblyman Johnson, who has
been with the party throughout the
two days. will leave them for West
wood. where he is scheduled to speak
at the commencement exercises in the
Kingsley School.
Yesterday a Strenuous One.
Yesterday was strenuous day for
the campaigners Many towns were
visited and many speeches made. All
along the road the tourists have been
met with the most respectful recep-
tons and the large crowds that heard
their arguments seemed so Interested
that every member of the party was
1unilant. The suffragists believe that
they have aroused an Interest for the
cause in northern New Jersey.
AT Phillipsburg. the last stop made
yesterday, several speakers addr esse1
a street meeting. Among them was
9ssemblyman Johnson, of Bergen, who
is accompanying the suffragists Miss
Florence Harris, daughter of f1mer-
son p Harris. of Montclair. made her
maiden speech. The other spoaTers
were, Mrs. Minnie J. Reynolds, Mrs.
Nina c. Van Wrinkle. DIR. William T..
Bohn and Emerson p. Harris
Pigs Delay Autos.
Phfllipsburg was the meeting pioce
for the two parties of the tourists.
One party went to Belvidere and the
other to BlairstoWn. Those who had
been waiting for the suffragists at
Blairstown were astonished when the
party in their autos crept slowly into
the town. Five pigs were wad1i!ng in
.lhe most dignified manner possible
fcf pigs, i'm advance of the process
SIGN. 'fhe pigs had apparently await
ell the suffra giSts with oVen greater
interest than the townspeople, for
they came out to meet them on the
road to the town, and refusing to
get out of the way of the cars,
marched solemnly as a vanguard of
the procession.
At Hackettstown the sheriff rang
tho church bell to summon the towns
people to the meeting. So strenuous
were his efforts that the bell rope
broke after a few rings.
Mrs. Reynolds at Hackettstown said
that if the women of New Jersey had
enough sense. and the experience of
the women in the suffrage States,
they would stop giving card parties
for the State College and would de-
vote their work to getting the vote
out. The money for the State College
would come through the proper source
the State treasury,
"This struggle of New Jersey wom-
en- for college shows she said,
that the movement began with the
endeavor to have girls admitted to
the Free Public School founded in
Dorchester Mass, 200 years ago, is
not yet finished
Fillmore Condit at the same place,
said some men are afraid that if
women became suffragists they would
not receive three meals a day, He
added that he is the husband of
suffragist, but gets three square
meals a day, has his socks darned
properly and thinks his wife is just
as nice, if not little nicer, than
other women.
Assemblyman Johnson urged wom-
en- not to sit around and talk about
it, and said it was no pink tea af-
fair. 1.-The men at Trenton are wide
wake to public opinion and the resi-
dents of Hackettstown are making
public opinion by spreading out flags
today" he added.
All stores at Hackettstown were
decorated with flags. Mayor Wallace
Kylor and Jacob Wiley. president of
the Board of Trade, were attending
an important meeting and could not
receive the "hikers."