Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-07-01
WOMEN IN PLEA
FOR SUFFRAGE RIGHT
Give Petitions to Vice-PreSident
and Speaker.
ROME CONVENTION is CITED
Lay Case Before the Senate and House
at Washington-Speake Clarke
Says He FaVors the
Movement.

Washington, June 29.-For the
third time within the year members
of the National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation, carrying 800 petitions from 80
states, laid their case before the SEN
ate and house and demanded legisla-
ton to insure to women equal politi-
cal rights with men,"
After visiting the house of repre-
sentatives and laying their case be-
fore Speaker Clark, the delegation OF
suffragists trooped over to Vice-Presi-
dent MarshalPs Office and confronted
him with petitions which they re-
quested should be delivered to the va
rious senators and by them in turn to
the senate.
In delivering the petitions to the
vice-president, Mrs Shaw recalled the
recent meeting of the international
convention in Rome when all the
women present voted for suffrage and
pledged themselves to do everything
in their power to obtain it in their
home country.
Good Effects Hoped For.
Our visit here, Mr. Marshall" con-
cluded Mrs. Shaw, lis in keeping with
that pledge. We hope that it will
be productive of good effect"
Miss Jane Adams of Chicago re-
minded the vice-president of the many
reforms in the municipal life of Chi
cago which have been effected by
women, and which have since been
taken out of their hands by the city
itself.
I'VE women started these reforms"
said Miss Adams, but now the city
has taken charge of them, and we
have not even voice in how they
shall be conducted"
Clark to Vote for Suffrage.
With the statement that he expect
ed to vote for woman suffrage when
it is brought before the voters of
Missouri, Speaker Champ Clark re-
ceived the delegation.
A number of members of congress
from western states crowded into
Speaker Clark's Office and watched
the presentation ceremonies. The suf-
frage delegation included Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the Ma
tional Suffrage association; Jane
Adams of Chicago, Mrs. Deshe Breck-
inridge of Kentucky, Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick and Mrs. Antoinette Book,
and Mrs. Helen Gardner of Massa-
chusetts.
Speaker Clark told the delegation
that for 5000 years men have BEEN
trying to run the world, and that some
claim they had made bad mess of it,
Il hope if you women ever run il"
he said, that you will improve condi-
tions. / think woman suffrage is as
inevitable as the rising of to-mor-
rows sun. If you continue in the
way you are going you probably will
get suffrage in all of the states with
IN a few years, and whenever the
issue is presented to Missouri l will
vote for it, not because l think that
all women should vote-for all men
are not fit to vote-but because l be-
lieve IN the principle
Meets Secretary Bryan.
One fair suffragist, weighing about
23O pounds, abandoned the party and
was making her way out of the base
ment entrance when she had a stroke
of luck Coming in the entrance was
Secretary of State Bryan. AS if he
were the British premier, and she Mrs
Pankhurst, the suffragist seized the
secretary by both arms and began a
harangue. BY none too gentle effort
and with the kindly assistance of an
elevator man, the secretary escaped
to an elevator and shot upstairs to-
ward the foreign relations committee