Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-12-04

depredations. On being asked why his
property was mmolested he said,
swell, I'll tell you the only way to
get along with those fellows is to jine
in with EN-"
AT the second mass meeting, Gen.
7. c. Rye, Governor-elect of Tennes-
see, and Mr.. John Bell Keeble, Pres
ident of the Monteagle, Chattanooga
Chautauqua, were among the promi
nent men on the platform.
Whenever DIR. Anna Shaw or Jane Adj
dams came on the platform the whole
audience of over six thousand people
would stand to do them honor. DR..
Shaw presided at the meetings, and
Mr.. Keeble said Of her that she was
one of the five greatest orators of
America.
She was always ready and when
she spoke she either brought her great
audiences to laughter or to tears.
Two hundred handsomely dressed
women sat on the platform with her
and all Of the speakers were fine lock-
ing, womanly women, who spoke with
an elegance Of diction that is sell
dom heard in any great gathering.
A gentleman who has his Office at
the capitol, where all the morning SEES
sions were held, said that in all the
ten years he had been at the capitol
he had never seen the proceedings Of
any body of men conducted with so
much order. ooh, they had their little
squabbles;p he continued, "but there
were no disorders, and they never ex-
eeeded their time limit"
The following expressions were
heard on the streets: "0f course, Ten
nessee men will give the women suf-
frage. We have never understood it
before.
A boy said, eyes, believe a woman
has as much right to vote as a negro"
A little rough, perhaps, but the lines
of Hall Game in his magnificent poem
"The Mother of the Man" came to me,
Therefore, why should man, the in
CRATE, when he chooses to confer,
Welcome every fool and coward,
only close the door on her?
Room, sirs, room within your councils,
bare your foreheads il you can,
For behold, without your portals
stands the mother Of the man."
An elegant Virginia gentleman said
"They will never get suffrage in the
no place for women" His companion
answered, Women will make them
fit place. They always clean up
things"
An elegant Virginia gentleman said
"They will never get suffrage in the
South. How about negro women vot-
ing2" The answer was, "Our fathers
managed this question long ago, and
we can be as resourceful as they were,
besides no man should be allowed to
vote who has no property, or who is
not intellectually fitted to do So"
Another man said "Why, decent man
do not vote" The answer was "That is
the reason woman have to do it,"
DR.. Anna Shaw, in her address COM
menting on the objection that a wo-
man would duplicate her husbands
vote, said, "What greater compliment
could you have than to have your wife
think as you do?" A man told DR..
Shaw that it would bring discord into
the family, that he and his wife had
been married for twenty years without
a difference Of opinion. DR.. Shaw said,
az have been wondering ever since
which one was the idiot, two people
living together for twenty years with
out difference Of opinion
|. Every objection to women's voting
was answered during the convention,
even Governor Hoeper's little daugh-
ter, who made speeches for the cause,
created much laughter with her ready
replies.
DR.. Shaw said that while she was
speaking from an automobile out west,
an Irishman, who was whiting as she
talked, looked up at her, and said,
Suppose those Germans should come
over here, would you women fight
them ?" NO" she said, "If those eGr-
mans come over here, our American
men would fight them, but If the Ger
man women should come, we would
show them. We would meet them a.
the harbor in New York, we would
rent the biggest auditorium in the city,
and then say to them, come on now,