Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-13

one Of the big jobs of the suffrage
campaigners is To secure the large
number Of speakers necessary Tor
their meetings. Many regrets come
ia from those who find ii Impossible
to accept Invitations to speak ana
they are always a source OF regret
to the campaigners. But the follow
ing letter from the venerable Bishop
ThobuIn. of the Methodist church, IS
almost enough to compensate Tor inc
disappointment:
"MeadVille, Pa, June =, l9l4'
Mrs. N. }. Reynolds:
Dear Madam-lt would give me
pleasure to visit New Jersey in the
interest of the good cause which You
serve. but | am somewhat advanced
in wears. and very seldom venture
ON Journeys which take me far from
home. I need hardly add that my
sympathies are with you in the good
work in which YOU are engaged, ana
l wish I could go in person to help
the good and great cause. My pray
ers will follow YOU. and may God
give you and all the reformers OF
New Jersey a great and eroWnins
victory. }. NJ. Ifiobo IN
At the great biennial national con-
vention Of the General Federation of
Wunen's clubs. at Chicago, during
the past week, Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait. president Of the International
cilffraea Alliance spoke on equal
suffrage at one of the big pubnc
meetings This certainly ought to be
sanction enough for suffrage days IN
| the Womens clubs of New Jersey
| during the coming year Mrs. Cnaf-
| lotto Perkins Gilman was another
eminent suffragist on the program of
! the general federation And the gea-
| eraI federation admits the suffrage
| learl!es into membership and their
| delegates sit in its convention. So
| the great general federation. repre-
| senting million American women,
| is certainly giving sanction enough
| TO the suffrage movement, although
some New Jersey clubwomen are
so timid that they fear the club move
ment may be disrupted if the word
suffrage is mentioned in club meet
! ing.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. as
chairman of the New York State
campaign committee, received infor-
nation that many men and women
passing a temporary HEADQUARTERS Of
the anti-suffragists in New York had
Eeen accosted and told that equal
suffrage meant free love, disruption
of the home and no children. She
wrote to Mrs. Arthur Dodge and
Miss Chittenden, the anti-suffrage Of
ficers, and asked them if this were
true. Miss Chittenden replied that
she could not tell, as the headquar-
tiers was now closed and she had not
seen the workers for two days. The
New York Evening Sun thereupon
remarked editorially that if Mrs. Gait
lcould not be satisfied with that she
must be hard to satisfy. And
went on to say that all the awful
predictions Of the ant-suffragists
about the workings Of equal suffrage
had been disproved so fast, and they
had consequently been forced to in
vent SO many new predictions, that
1t was not strange that after forty
eight hours absence an anti-suifrage
chief could not tell what arguments
her workers were using.
The Associated Press is throwing sc
many fits over the English militants
that it will end in producing an un-
regerenate grin on the lips of even
the unmilitant. THE king was the
calmest man there exclaimed the
press report. passionately, in report
lilS INV Il NCiiAeh t9NCoN ~ NOHA I ANAASi'
u the monarch and asked him to stoI
forcible feeding. How majestic
For a king to be. calm when a woman
kneels at his feet. Who will say that
modern royalty is not still truly re-
gal? There Is no need for kinl
George to face the enemy upon the
battledeld-as he never does. IT i,
enough for him to remain calm whilt
a woman kneels to him.
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A bill introduced in the New Yorl
Legislature the past winter providing
for women assistants in the JuYenil
Court of New York Was killed. Th'