The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-05
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ATTACK MADE On
4sUfFRAGIST HEAD
d. Mary Walker Says d..
Shaw Is Deceiving Women
Of the Country.
AMENDMENT IMPOSSIBLE
Change Garnet Be Made il Ceastitn-
6sa, q Right to Vote
Already b Gives.
AMENDMENT IMPOSSIBLE

DIR. Mary Walker. who has been pub
iicIy advocating the right OF women to
equal franchise with men for more than
thirty years. yesterday declared that DR..
Anna Shaw. president OF the National
woman's Suffrage Association. is deceive
ing the women of the country on the suf-
frage question.
II told DIR. Shaw several years ago that
\ she was deceiving the women" said Dr.
Walker. land that the time would come
when the women will find IL out and &C.
cuse her Of deceiving them
what DIR. Shaw should do is to come
out squareiy and acknowledge to the
women Of the country that the Constitu-
ton gives them equal right with men to
vote. and SO instruct them.
"All this campaigning that the suffra-
gists are DONG IN washington Tor the
passage OF constitutional amendment
by Congress is nothing but plain bosh.
The Constitution never will have such an
amendment The only members who re-
ported favoraDly on the resolution were
those from suffrage States. and the only
reason they dId was because they were
afraid of the women's votes at home
Calls II Tastalogy.
Members Of Congress are too inteIii-
gent to do anything like voting a con-
stitutional amendment, for to do so would
be tautology. They might Just as well
pass an amendment giving women the
right to wear gloves.
This is my browning constitutional
argument. that women always nave nad
the right under the constitution to vote
equally with men. and that there isn't
any need for Congress to pass an amend
ment.
Women don't understand this. and the
sufragfst leaders should bring this issue
squarely before them.
Women always have had the right
of franchise and could use that right
now IL they only had understood their
privilege and had taken their chance
when they had it. The women in New
Jersey and Maryland were voting when
the Constitution was being framed. They
voted in New Jersey until 1s41. when they
were ousted from politics. The reason
they were ousted was because they did
not fully understand their rights. made
no complaints, and failed to take the
legal question UP with the United States
Attorney General and the Supreme Court"
Tar-and-Feafher story Denied.
DR.. Walker declared there is no truth
in the published statements that an at
tempt had been made to tar and feather
her at her home in Oswego. y. Y. on the
ground, it was alleged, that she said
there was not a decent woman living in
her neighborhood. And as for appear
ing on the porch of her home in pink
silk pajamas and rubber boots to con-
front the would-be perpetrators of the
deed. DR.. Walker held up her hands in
horror.
The whole thing Is made-up
story" she told a reporter. and there
Is not a shadow of truth in il. ! posi-
lively did not make single charge
against the morality of any woman in
Oswego. nor have l any reason to make
such charges.
All these stories are the spite work
of woman who formerly was in my
and TO whom / refused to
give a certificate of sound mind She
told women in Oswego that i said
there was not a single moral woman
in the town..