New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
SUFFRACETS DUPED
AGAIN In JERSEY
Retain Faith in Man De-
spite Inconsistency of
Read Act.
CONSPIRACY TALK
RAISED BY LEADERS
Attempt to Make Measure Use.
less Seen In Mix.Up
Over Ballots.

II has often been remarked that
woman's faith in man is never killed.
no matter what the creature does.
Some OF the New Jersey suRragists
are proving this. Wnsr looks like a
plot has Just raised its head-a plot
mission TO the voters OF the state the
constitutional amendment enfranchls-
ing wonderland what happens?
Here and there voices of New Jersey
women are heard denouncing per
fidious man-enough of them to make
anti-suffragists feel that they are still
needed to uphold and defend mans
rights But in the main the suffrage
leaders there say clamly that they are
sure there was no malignant intent IN
the inconsistency in the Read act,
which leads Governor Fielder TO fear
that it is invalid, and that they have
confidence that whatever ia wrong Will
be made right by a special session OF
the Legislature.
Is this another case where woman
shows she realizes that she has got
to be as wise as the serpent and as
gentle as the dove if she is going to
get her way? Or do New Jersey women
still really trust their politicians, in
spite of the fact that this is the third
time their bill has been queered by
some so-called "mistake"?
Mrs. George p. Vickars, Of Jersey
City, president Of the Equal Franchise
League, knitted her brows yesterday as
she looked at the item calling atten-
ton TO the fact that in one part of the
Read bill it says that county clerks
shall furnish the ballots and in an
other that the Secretary Of State shall
furnish them, and that the Attorney
General may decide this to be a fatal
error.
There is somebody who has been
trying to make our measure ineffcct-
i've" she said. Somebody who is in a
high position and who recently has &C
quired added power No, will name
no names. What is the use Of an
tagonizing him and making him still
more an enemy? Besides, am sure he
won't be able to prevent our cause
from coming to the voters. The Gov
ernor Is on our side.
Governor Fielder has been perfect
ly splendid, and if this bill is decided
invalid he will call special session OF
+
Legislature, too, is acting in good
faith.
"As for the putting off Of our spe-
cial election to October 10, we don't
feel badly about that. 1t will prevent
our exercising the franchise this year.
but then holding our election on a
registration day will save the state
$4,000, and that pleases US, for We
believe in economy in politics"
81 haven't seen the Read measure,
Mrs. Feickert said cautiously, 80
don't like to say much. But | believe
New Jersey men have about made up
their minds that we are determined
TO have the vote, and that they might
as we'll give in"
Mrs. Colvin said their suffrage craft
had certainly had a stormy passage
over the legislative sea.
Last year." she recollected, after
the amendment had been passed the
first time by the Legislature, it came up
for the second passage, and should
have passed, only after We had been
assured by the men in charge that it
was properly advertised. we discovered
that in one of the twenty-one counties
the advertising had been neglected.
And so IL was necessary to reintroduce
the measure, and a year was lost.
This year the measure was nearly
wrecked by the removal of a comma
from one of the sections. All these
errors do look queer, don't they? But
we feel sure that all will be made
right"
But not all the women are so gentle
with the men. For instance. there is
Mrs. Alexander Christie, of Bayonne,
an eighty-year-ol worker in the cause.
Mrs. Christie is honorary president of
the Political Study 4 u, of Bayonne,
and keenly interested in the measure
that will come before New Jersey men
in October if it isn't wrecked.
This alleged mistake is a political
scheme" she declared yesterday. ooh,
I've seen a lot Of their tricks in my
eighty years of life. But the women
are going to come into their own"