Evening star., 1915-12-08
SUFFRAGE HOSTS
CLASH WITH ANTS
Women For and Against Fran
chise Meet Before Democrat
iC National Committee.
ADVOCATES FOR BALLOT
IN TILT WITH OPPONENTS
Request Made and Opposed for Plank
in 1916 Platform Favoring
Votes for Women.


Suffrage and anti-suffrage' forces
.I..had ,es+erdax afternoon when rep-
.s. r,i.a,ions Nom in
resentatlNes % oF sah'|a ''oi' i
favor of and opposed 10 woman SUI
fraSe submitted their respective ap
meals 10 the members of the democratic
national committee. in session at the
.,.toan,s 81 an anti-spffr,pe sneaker
aa1,oa ,or.h decided mutterings and
.,anor., hiss.s fron, tre 100 suffrage
ahoran, ,-cse,t and chairman Nc
~ oo,,,,i+,c. ras compelIed
.oi'ips - " a, ,et,,, ar,nh,sis 10
aule' the ios u-,
The Congressional tAloH toI oii"''
Suffrage. the National American ON
an Suffrage Association and the Asso-
ciation opposed TO Woman Suffrage
tea a.aire +Ea;r REPRESENTATIVES, and
tis,a - ,heir anneais The committee
81 ,s;da ,hs time from until 4 45 pm.
.etins tba organization in the order
nan,ad n,I eranting each group fifteen
,ain,,,as 10 Soid The stage
mrs E,orenca Kn,ght Kelly intro
d,ced ,be sneakers from the union. who
ara ,Jrs IiIJ- = Uostanholme of Utah,
so,,ha ~ af tba lepislafure of the
Ia en- Two wesfern enyoys who
on Tonday brought to Congress and
~ prasidant tSe netitiou of those rep
nsonts5 n, tba SAN Francisco voters
o,an+ion 1ast Santemher
IN e.'s,o. ,nI3s,e tbara is single man
=, ~ states where suffrage prevails
wbo would want to see the right of
,a,,,,r, ~ ,ota recalled Mrs Wosten-
t,,n ia ,ba delegates
holhs 'oia 'he
Came as Fellow Dem ocrat.'
Miss Jolliffe of California. one OF lhe
two enyoys stated that she greeted the
oou,,it+.en,en as fellow democrat
and campaisner who for weeks
nsu a. ds,,ocratic President
.,t,o bod raised for the
nar,v .s1 400 of Taft money" We wom
en- hone we may stand side by SIDE
with the men at the polls anu heip
bring prosperity 10 'he o"lteu
s1c a,,,o,. urs Field of ore
con declared that il would probably
be unnecessary TO request the next
democratic convention that y hpous
q suffrage plank N its Pc = ~ ~, g. ,iste
,nuch ~ ,tnr vii have been settled
nope, t,e t5ai ,n,endruent This is
through ieue q - sa,.,r oIo,ical
moreover she sdiu' reinstatement
moment 10 pus .t.te - 80 basnoEe the
through congress- anu anu Sti. ,uitb
!tlhuShNS y
their fcpi = 80 ~ ~, ,ntniratta
The next speaker was MIS- An,o.ne..
Funk. represen'i.le the .e;nt;o, .s
lean Woman suffrage AssoSta ttot.I ~, - -
she passed up the aisle 10 the piati H " ~
she met the last speaker o. the So
gressional Union coming doNH' ~, slsu
they passed each otner JusL sri;
passed the sergeant-at- arms inis
fnnctionary caused a ripple of amuse-
ment by giving each of the women ms
arm simultaneously and SO guiding
their double passage that they were
& On o2pos,,e easn o,ber % as possible.
ror,,1;ments Congressional Union.
Mrs Funk lar from say siiis a"s
thing deFogatory 70 t'ie .o"s
Union. which IS WORKING LOT '"e aal"e
ultimate result as her owl asso''a 80
but along entirely oinereht iiies, spoNe
most highly OF them. stating Una, to
finer specimens OF SUM 80 eou
found than the women VI 'He uLio,i
In fact. II would nave oeeh tliiie
for the casual spectator 70 iedii%e 10
Mrs. Funk and previous speakers oe-
Hanged TO different camps. She con-
6red herself almost exclusively to the
noIitical side OF the suffrage question.
paying high compliment to Gov. Dunno
~ Illinois who was present. by char
scterizinr him as the raan who had
done more for suffrage than any other
one in this country
..If We women OF Illinois did all the
waiting for governor there would never
he ano+ber save Mr. Dunno as long
he IiZed she declared She-told how
JJipofs rHrough the eufranchis isenlent
- 10 yoren rad zone from third TO
Hrst n1arc among the states politically.
she hov.ever aid ask for suffra ge
pan "a me Ms.seinnj neAf pinrio' followed Mrs
Funk. delivering bx4et haeasSse o'i
oeia4i % lne =
Auti-Sufragi gists Heard.
,. t 90
va III ~ -.
suHfaSism Wttf DFest4t o'l4%
no choice had been lett them by those