Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-23
ANTl-SUFFRAGE NOTES

Rev. Anna Shaw accuses Senator /
Lodge Of opposing tho "Phossy Jaw"
bill intended 10 regulate CT suppress
the manufacture Of phosphorus
matches, so injurious TO the work.
ers. Senator Lodge states that far
from opposing it he was The author
of the bill and led the fight for II
in both congresses!
The sufragists who planned their I
"Black list campaign expected il 10
cost them $4,000; it is doubtful
whether they expected it also to cost
them a plank i'm the Massachusetts
Republican platform. as il has al
ready done. When the Republican
convention at Worcester was drawing
ND its platform, Mrs. A. J. George
appeared before Il for the anti-suf-
fragsts According TO the Boston
Herald she made 4 mighty good
case" She read to the committee q
statement in which Senator Lodge
was placed by the sufiragists among
! the blacklistod Washington men
who should be defeated at the first
opportunity because he had failed TO
/ follow their lines. IF YOU gentle
men think it is a fine thing to favor
| a movement which has deliberately
/ listed your senior senator as a man
who should be defeated I have
nothing more to say" She did not
need to say it-her case was won and
there is no suffrage prank in the
/ Republican PLATFORM MIR. Mccall
/ Republican candidate for governor,
Is supposed TO be a suffragist, but he
stated that while he bad favored a
plank, not endorsing Suffrage, but
agreeing that perhaps IT was well
TO have 1t go to the people, he was
not insisting even on thatl
Mrs. Harriet stanton Blatch saws
there are 100000 women who are
voters and that they will vote against
any party that does not favor woman
suffrage Could there be stronger
proof that they are unfit for the bal
lot? What? Allow "a matter of sex
preference and sex nlo to determine
their vote on Questions Of national
policy-thc tariff, che currency.
monopolies. relations to Mexico re-
lations 10 Europe? Thar SIS what we
who oppose woman suffrage have al
ways said; that If womop were adj
mitted to vote on political questions
they would be Influenced by personal
considerations and not Try to find
out the merits Of the political ques-
tions to be decided icy the electorate
and now Mrs. Batch admits this and
warns the men to be afraid Of the
women voters. The logical result
is that we must keen them out of
political rover Hon. Everett r.
Wheeler.
The women did not vote in Chi
cago, saw the sudragists because
they "wanted 10 he nun-partisan
The same reason why AMI suhragists
want to keep ont Of politics alto
gcther. if you remember If there
is a good reason why woman
should not go to the polls NJ pri-
mary election and thus help to Sc.
lect tho very prime nee agsity for any
improvement in goyernmcnt-beltei
candidates for ofncee-Nhy must She
be a partisan after the candidates arN
chosen? The man WHO does no
vote at a primary is o greater men
ace to the success on democrau
government than the man who nee
lects to vote az the 6nal election.
good candidates are selected, it doe
not matter which party wins, we vii
have q good goycrnmoi d; but If W
turn the whole soiective machiner
over TO the party bosses" moi
women and children may nut piece
Of MINER into a ballot box from nov
till dcomsday at elections and neve
succeed in getting worthy represen