The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-02
MISS BRONSON
MAKES DENIALS
MISS MINNIE BRONSON, ANTl-sUE-
ERAGE LEADER AND SPEAKER,
SHE STARTED REPORT
THAT WOMEN INTERRUPTED HER
FARGO MEETING.

Helena, Mont, May ITO The For
UNI: The assertion OF certain news
naners that I said my meeting IN Far
go was disturbed by the sunragette IS
plaint or statement. l heard no one
talk out loud or make any demonstra
ton. If anyone did, 1t didn't reach my
ears on the platform. AS 1 leIC E5lso
az < o'clock the next morning / had no
onnortunity to see anyone to whom 10
make such a statement. .
am also in receipt of an issue or
The Forum which published a letter
from ~ Supt. F. l.. watkins of the North
Dakota Enforcement league and l ask
the privilege of your columns TOT a
reply. A. Wat
kins' letter and he demands the names
| oF the officers Of the North Dakota as
sociation Opposed to Woman SURFACE.
| If Mr.. Watkins will hold his peace LOT
| a few days his demands Will De sa'is-
fed. n
Every organization, even the N. -.
Enforcement league probably, passes
through a period Of formation, the Y.
D. Enforcement ieague w io effectinr
ia oreanization. Meetings were held
throughout the state In these EFFORTS:
| These meetings like those OF our own
organization were under tne au9pttGG vs
and presided over by representative
| neopie Of the various localities.
= At the request Of some Of the women
Of North Dakota who are not IN sym
pathy with the Suffrage movement ~
man suffrage, composed OF some or tne
foremost women In philanthropy IN tne
United States, sent my associate, MISE
Markeson. n me TO N no. D s@anRe bui
three times in the state, the hrst tlmt
at the residence Of Judge y. c.; YOUNG
in Fargo. the second at stones audl:
torium WHERE ! She C. ms Young, T thhse third ir
Bismarck and Judge E; b. Goss Oh inc
supreme court presided. 49, .
assume that in the estimation OF
even oo Mi: wstH Hf Sso t@fS sus nd@ss "S'
The North Dakota women who are
IMPOSED to woman suffrage are now or
eapizinp and the officers will be an
nounced as soon as tne state "ioe VI
g~aniEation is complete.
NS one has accused the North Dakots
R%uffragists OF being allied with anar'
chists, free lovers. loose morals la2
marriage laws and easy divorce an!
more than they have accused them OF
being allied with the English su1ra'
gettes, but the fact remains tnat tns
feminists both of Europe and this coun.
try who advocate these things are al
ardent ~suffragists, some of them higf
in the councils Of the National SuHrag'
organization. And II as MT. Watklnl
insinuates, the opposition or saloon msT
to woman suffrage constitutes an all
ance between the anti-suffrage organi
zation and the saloon interests, thei
this advocacy of woman Suffrage o!
feminists who do believe In Tree iov'
and lax divorce laws and the abolition
Of the marriage contract, constitute
an alliance between the suffragists an
their vicious influences. -
A !. matter of fact not all the salool
Interests are on the Anti Suffrage side
The president Of the Mems league 70
Woman suffrage In one state Is a brew
er. In 1890 Susan B. Anthony wrot
ing them to endorse woman's suffrag
i and in Detroit the secretary of the Ma
tiona association addressed the Brew
ers' union asking them to support tn
suffrage measure, which many of ther
did, 10,
10 MI. watkins 1t 'tsesrns incredibl