The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-11-03
Able Address Was Made By
Mrs. Angus Taylor of
Birmingham.
VOTES FOR WOMEN
SLOGAN BOOSTED
Local Suffragists Were Very
Active In Making Day
Unbounded Success.

Suffrage day at the Escambia
County Fair was a great success, in
spite of the almost prohibitive price
of admission on Tuesday, which kept
many persons away from the grounds
and which was reduced by the Fair
last night.
Miss Marguerite Ingraham and Mrs.
A. c. Reilly, as committee of dec
Grafton, did some wonderful work in
converting the grand stand into a
thing of beauty, and suffrage PEN
nants gave silent but eloquent testi-
mony to the message of Votes for
Women. Garland after garland of
the golden pennants were carried
from column to column, and swung
from end to end of the stand, and the
speakers stand was draped in Amer
lean colors, with back of this large
banner in deep yellow and black let
tering: Justice Demands That You
Give Florida Women the Vote"
Miss Ingraham, who is chairman of
the program committee, was assisted
by Miss Gertrude Friedman and Miss
.Yelma Maura in. distributing suffrage
flyers and Suffrage colors and buttons
and much propaganda was distributed
in this way, and men, women and
children wore the colors proudly all
the afternoon.
MRS. TAYLOR SPEAKS.
At half after three o'clock Mrs.
Angus Taylor of Birmingham made
an address from. the grand stand, and
those who heard her were won not
only by her arguments, but by the
manner in which she. presented them.
Mrs. Taylor is president Of the Biz
mingham Suffrage League, and was
accompanied to the Fair grounds by
Miss Evanette Robinson, first vice
president of the Pensacola Equal Suf-
frage league, and Mrs. j. B. Perkins,
and was introduced to her audience
by Miss Robinson, in the absence of
the president, Mrs. Walker Ingraham,
who was ill ard unable to be present
Before the speaking, map of the
United States was placed IN con-
spicuous place on the stand, and Mrs.
Taylor referred to this map number
of times in her speech, and Florida
suffragists were proud of the fact
that Florida has been placed in the
ranks of the states which have partial
suffrage, even though to Felsmere be-
longs the credit for this.
Mrs. Taylor spoke of the chivalry
of the Southern men and referred to
the fact that the women of the South
did not doubt this chivalry-indeef
depended greatly upon it and were
proud of it, but that they wanted
added to this-justice. She spoke OF
the wonderful act of brave man in
Pittsburg who went into burning
building to rescue seven young womer
caught in a modern death-trap, one
of those great buildings where fac
tory workers are housed, and Of the
heroism that was his in giving hi
life that these women might be saved
But she reminded the men in the audi
ence that if the women of Pennsyl
vania had had a vote this splendit
man need not have so given his brav'
life, and these girls need not hav'
met this awful death, for the womel
of Pennsylvania who are sufragist
have been working for years for bet
ter fire protection for factory girls.
Mrs. Taylor, referred to the oil
enlargement that woman's place i
in the home, and pointed out the fac
that only few weeks ago, the suffra
gists of New York, weary of thi
thread-bare chant of the ants, decid
ed - show it's barrenness as an argu
ment by declaring one day strik
of the working women. Immediately
a cry went up all over the countr
that if the women of New York re
manned at home for one day it woul
cripple the commercial machinery o
the United States.
4 She spoke of the ants who quote
| st. Paul and reverently and beauti
fully, she referred to that Create
authority, our Lord, Jesus Chris
who babe US help our fellowman.
She spoke of the chivalry show
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