Arizona republican., 1914-03-04
Senate Suffrage Committee Hearings Scene of Amer ican Form of Battle for Ballot; Women Bring Threats.
GIVE US VOTE OR
 WATCH OUT FOR US
They Say, Intimating Three
 Million Enfranchised Wo- men Will Fight Demo- cratic Party In 1916;
 Antis Also Present Case
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l WASHINGTON. March 3. - All i phases of the suffrage question were presented to the house judiciary com mittee today. accompanied bv cheers, 1 jeers, misses, and applause. Mrs. , Crystal Eastman Benedict, and Mrs. Mary Beard. two New York women 1 lawyers, threw down the gauntlet to the democratic party. warning the committee that the political wrath of i four million women in the several suf- frage states. would be visited upon the party, unless favorable consideration is given the constitutional amendment for national women suffrage.
 Anti-suffragettes told the committee i that women suffrage would be harm- i ful. not only to women, but to the country At the conclusion of the i hearing, pr. Mary Walker. trousered and silk halted, presented to the com mittee, what she called the crowning constitutional argument" to show that ! women already have a right to vote i under the constitution.
 Zowiel !
 1 can not answer us by shaking in our faces that tatterdemalion of q states rights scare crow and then expect us not to read the newspapers, when you repudiate your platform and V.olate ! the express states rights in the mat ter of presidential primaries. You cannot tell us that your platform will l,; T. cause it is silent, but will permit re- peal of the canal tolls exemption which it expressly forbids. It is under estimating our resources, to suppose that we can not put these facts into the hands of l5,000,000 voters, includ- ing over 3.O00,000 free women. The political party which will enter into possession of the federal government on March f. 1917. will believe that wo- man suffrage is matter of national concern and of transcendent national 1 importance"
 And the Ants
 Mrs. Arthur M Dodge. president oi the national association opposed tc woman suffrage, conducted the oppo-
 
 White of Boston, declared that a wo- man has succeeded in getting all oi her legal rights without the ballot, ana that the ballot is unnecessary.
 "A wise state recognizes that Wo- man must be preserved for the Worl she only can do for that state" saiC Miss Alice H. Chittenden of New
 |
 fight with the weapons of men, she is playing losing game.
 Miss Margery Dorman, of the Wag' Farmers Anti Suffrage league of New
 York, said that working women diC not need the ballot She said that wo- men in the labor world were "transi- tory and accidental' and could no
 have the experience necessary to cop, with government problems.
 Clapp Lines lem Up
 During the debate in the senate Senator Clapp declared that all thu
 sinister influences of the country wer' , lined up against woman suffrage H.
 said he regretted that good people il [ opposing suffrage. allowed themselves to be used as mask for these evi influences
 The States Problem
 Sena tor Bryan of Florida, made hi | first extended speech against tn amendment He contended first of all ? that the states should be allowed t , deal with the question. saving, tha
 California has no more right to sa, whether the negro women of F1orid;
 should vote. than Florida had to sa!
 that the Japanese should vote in Cali
 fornia.
 In the meantime. the debate on tn suffrage amendment continued in tn senate Suffrasists who appeared be fore the committee. were divided Mrs Antoinette Funk Mrs. Medill McCor mick. Chicago. and Mrs Williar' Ken : of california. representing the Nation al Woman Suffrage association urge that if the committee did not rnpor
 the proposed amendment. it should re port an amendment to allow the sui frage question to be decided by
 referendum in the various states in
 stead of bv the legislatures Mrs Benedict. Mrs. Beard Mrs. GlenHowe Evans of Boston. and Mrs Cora Shit
 King. for the congressional union. as serted that the time had come to mak
 the suffrage nuestion one of nolitiea
 expediency. Mrs Evans and Mrs
 Benedict warned the democrats not {
 dodge the issue, and said that actio
 on the suffrage question must be take
 during this session of congress.
 Representatives of the National Wo
 man Suffrage association. disclaime participation in the political warnin {. of the congressional union and fo