Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-10-14
Suffrage Startles the East
Vigor of Woman's Campaign Takes Rock-Bound
States by Surprse-New Jersey Votes
on Amendment October 19.

campaign experiences date back TO the
Hanna campaigns in Ohio; Mrs. George
Bass, who has been reaching the club
women; and Miss Virginia Watrous,
| tho daughter OF Mrs Funk.
Among the others who have Joined the
| nationals squad from time to time have
been Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Co
lumbia. Mo. president Of the Missouri
State association; Mrs Winston Church.
Ill. wife Of the novelist, who is said to
como from an old suffrage family"
Mrs Susan w. Fitzgerald Of Boston.
secretary Of the national association;
Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell Of Washington,
| d. c., who is doing Intensive" cam
| paigning in Jersey city.
Miss Lavinia Engle, field secretary of
the national. has been sent into Trenton,
the stronghold Of the antis. where she
is holding ten meetings a night in an
effort to break down the opposition.
Miss Rose Bowers, the cornetist of the
squad. halls from South Dakota, where
she helped carry some Of the "Black
| Hill counties"
| OTHER STATES WATCH JERSEY
The campaigns In New York. Massa-
chusetts, and Pennsylvania. are not
quite - exciting as the New Jersey
campaign. partly because the results
| are felt to depend in largo measure
upon the result in New Jersey. IF New
Jersey carries, then New York is Won"
says Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. chair
man Of the empire State campaign COM
mittee. mo amount of money can de-
feat US"
but IL New Jersey loses?" It was sig-
! gested.
Mrs. Gait shook her head
we have our plans shaped for every,
contingency" she replied but we are
not telling them in advance"
The Empire State campaign commit
tee has made some brilliant suffrage his
tory In the past year. especially in or
ganization and publicity PERHAPS the
most startling stroke was the proposal
that the working women stay home for
a single day to test out the theory of
the ants that "woman's place is in the
home" The ants might we'll have invit-
ed them to make good with their
scheme. which was obviously impract-
cable, but instead they raised a hue and
cry about 1t, the net result of which was
to drive that hoary apothegm into gen.
eral rdicule.
Tho prevalence of "suffrage numbers''
OF the magazines is largely due to the
pressure of the New York women. They
have also gone in heavily for billboard
advertising, especially at the Polo
grounds. In Manhattan itself the women
are organized to the last tenement
house, and some OF the local women
seem actually more optimistic about
New York city than they are about some
OF the upstate counties
Tammany is non-committal on the
subject. though probably active under
ground against It, On the other hand,
the Mitchell administration, which Is
still popular. is for suffrage.
Most of the newspapers seem to be
favorable. Two of the big German pa
pers are for 1t. as we'll as two Of the
big Jewish papers. But for ALL the east
side vote is by no means predlsposed
toward suffrage.
ONLY SIXTY LAPS BEHIND!
! In Massachusetts the battle between
the suffragists and the ants IL almost
GO years old and apparently the argu-
ments on both sides have not greatly
changed, Practically all the big can
didates have declared themselves In
favor of suffrage, but their declarations
are received with considerable skepti-
cism. In many respects Massachusetts Is
still the State of Senator Lodge.
Pennsylvania has had a we'll organized
press campaign and has enjoyed besides
more significant political support, per-
haps. than the women in other States
have had. The influence of the Quakers,
still considerable in the State. Is on the
side of the women. but the Pennsylva-
MIA Dutch. plus certain political ele-
ments in Philadelphia and Pittsburg,
may prove their undoing.