The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-03-25

At the meeting at the city hall or
Monday evening, when Miss Lavina
Engle addressed a large gathering in
which men were largely represented
many questions were put to her, and
very ably answered.
Here are a few questions that the
men of Pensacola put to the young
national organizer, and the answers
she gave them:
Q. what effect viii equal suffrage
have on the vote in the South? If,
for instance, the republican ticket
should put up a better man that the
democratic ticket, would the women
vote for the republican,
A. "The men will be very apt to
see that the man on the democratic
ticket is the equal if not superior of
the man on the republican ticket. The
women, wherever suffrage has been
tried, have invariably stood firmly for
the man whose integrity is unques-
toned. And for that reason the po-
litical standards have been raised. The
men are going to see that they put
up good men on both sides, when the
woman gets the vote, for that is one
thing that the woman voters are go
ing to insist upon-good men for Of
flee. The democrats must see that
their man is the best man.
@. How will the suffrage in the
South affect the negro vote? How
about the negro woman's voter"
A. "The southern women will ex-
pect the southern men to protect them
from the negro woman's vote, just as
the southern men have protected
themselves from the negro mans
vote"
There was much applause from the
men at this. and one then put to Miss
Engle the following:
@. when the women get the vote
do you think it will be necessary to
have separate voting places for them?
And IL not, what are the women going
to do about lido you think the polls
a fit place for a woman
A. There is no more reason why
the women should have separate vot-
ing places, than that they should have
separate churches, or street cars or
postoffice for women. If voting places
are not fit places for women they are
not fit places for men, and when wo-
men get the vote they will see that
they are fit places for BOTH
Q. What about the English suf-
fragettes?"
A. 'In 1875 America and England
separated, and so the English suffra-
gette does not in any way come into
the question. There will never be mil
itancy in the United States. There is
no need OF it, the American women
do not want tive have no desire,
1 assure you, to go on hunger strikes.
The American men are fair-minded.
They will give use the vote, with
But tell you one thing-there is no
telling what we would do, if we had
Englishmen to deal with"
@. what about the states who
have suffrage? Have any of them be-
come dissatisfied with equal outrage, |
after having given woma nthe ballot?
A. I'm Denver, when it was pro-
posed that the ballot should be re-
called, the men themselves said no
they could not do without the women |
They had done so much good work |
that they needed them-and wanted |
them. In Wyoming perore the terri |
tory would become a state it remained |
out of the ULion for five years, rather
than become a part of the Union, as a |
state. without the women"
@. What about factory legislation
in the states where they have suf-
frage? Is 1t better than in the other
states?"
A. Decidedly so. 1.-THE age limit |