The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-07-01
So Declares Himself To
Women Visitors.
my Wife WON'T LET NE"
Says Marshall. While Score
tary Bryan Takes Refuge
In An Elevator.
MISS CLARK WITH HER FATHER

Washington, June 27.-Womau
suffragists, representing SS states,
descended on the Capitol again to-
day. seeking support from Congress
men of all political faiths. The
women represented 500 petitions
asking Congress to pass the suffrage
bill.
Speaker Clark told them that
woman suffrage was as inevitable
as the rising of to-morrow's sun"
Vice President Marshall, pressed to
take Il more definite stand on the
question, naively intimated that his
wife would not let him, and Secre.
tary Bryan, waylaid by an enthusi-
astic suffragist as he was wedding
his way through the Capitols cor
ridors TO discuss affairs of State
with Senate committee, took ref
uge in an elevator.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw, President
of the National Woman's Suffrage
Association; Jane Adams. of Chi.
cago, and Mrs. DeshaBreckinridge, of
Kentucky. Vice Presidents, pleaded
their cause to both Vice President
Marshall and Speaker Clark.
Mrs. Breckinridge, grand-daugh-
ter of Henry Clay, said she hoped
the Vice President would help the
woman suffrage cause The Vice
President interrupted
I've got to remember my wife. y"
he said. land | don't want to get
separated from her." This remark
was interpreted by the suffragists
to mean that Mrs. Marshall is op.
posed to the movement.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, of Chicago,
said that the delegation wanted
their petitions sent to the Senator's
by messengers.
Il will do that for YOU" said the
Vice President, and calling pages,
he ordered the petitions distributed.
DR.. Shaw told both the Vice Presi-
dent and the Speaker there was a
demand for-wOman suffrage through
out the United States. She said
that since the nationwide suffrage
demonstration May she had at
tended the meeting of the Interna-
tional Council of Women at Rome,
representing 100000 women from
widely separated countries, and that
when a resolution for woman suf-
frage was presented there. every
vote was cat in its favor.
This shows" she said. that the
desire for suffrage is not merely
from this country, but from all over
the world. The method of securing
universal suffrage. State by State is
too slow; unless we can get Con
gress TO encourage the movement it,
will be greatly delayed. Therefore
We are demanding that Congress
shall pass some form of law. We
are not stipulating what that law
shall be. but we desire some law
that will ggive the States the sup
port of Congress,
You are going a. this thing in
the right way" Speaker Clark told
the suffra gists. IF you women are
going to run the world. | hope you
will improve on the efforts of the
men. My own Judgment is that you
can get results quicker through the
States. At the rate YOU are going
now, il looks To me as II you might
get it i'm three. four or five years
My own position. and | might as well
make that clear to YOU, because |
have got To some time, Is that |
think women should vote. When
ever il is submitted in Missouri
am going to vote for il.
Miss Genevieye Clark, the Speak
er's daughter, was one of the suf-
fragists in the party.
"Your father came across with
the suffrage support" friend sug
gested.
He wouldn't have dared come
home If he hadn't" she smilingly
replied,