Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-10-08

vote les Ou luS SuuIdSS ohfchOIhShD
was issued from Newark today by a
newly formed committee of forty, com-
prising leading men from all parts OF
the state, and, it is said, from all po-
litical parties.
This appeal which Is issued over the
signatures of George NJ. LaMonte as
chairman, Colonel George Harvey, at
torney General John W. Wescott,
Judge Frederick Adams, u S. Senator
William Hughes, Congressman j..
Thompson Baker and others, is remark.
able In that it represents the verdict ar
rived at by these men after a thorough
consideration of the arguments pro and
con On the suffrage amendment. Their
statement was issued after two private
meetings and an investigation Of GER
tain anti-suffrage statements.
On the committee are, I'm addition TO
those mentioned, the Hon Ernest Il.
Alderman of Plainfield, Hon. e. G. @.
Bleakeley, counsel of the city of Cam
den; Judge Robert Carey Of Jersey
City, Hon. Everett Colby of Orange,
Judge James c. Connolly, Seymour
Cromwell, John Cotton Dana, Judge
Abe J. David, Hon. Cornelius ]. Ford,
Ex-Governor J.. Franklin Fort, Hon.
William G. Gebhardt, Emerson 2. Har-
ris, Sheriff Eugene F. Kinkead, Hon.
Victor Mravlag, mayor of Elizabeth;
Hon. George w. V. Moy, James E.
Pope. Mayor Thomas L Raymond of
Newark, Linton Satterthwaite, Hon.
William L. Saunders, Oberlin Smith of
Bridgeton and David H. Standish.
The statement issued by this commit
tee. of which Champlain l. Riley of
Plainfield is secretary and Fillmore
Condit of Essex Fells, treasurer, reads
as follows:
"As American citizens we believe
that popular government is the best
means of insuring the welfare and hap
piness of the citizens of this country.
The possession of the power of repre-
sentation by different classes In the
community tends to secure justice for
all, and since we agree that women
are people We believe that they are
entitled to representation equally with
men.
"Women as mothers of the race, wo-
men as taxpayers, women as subject
to the law, are most closely concerned
with all problems of government, ques-
lions of peace and war, the cost OF
living and the care of the rising gem
Grafton.
''The extension of woman suffrage
from one neighboring state to another
in the west disproves alarmist and re-
dictionary a~nticipations of its working
and shows that equal suffrage is in
harmony with American institutions.
The acknowledgment of more than
100000 women in the western states
renders the continued Acknowledgement
of the women of the east increasingly
anomalous, unjust and undigni1ed.
Throughout the west representative
men neal witness to the benefits de
rived from equal suffrage, and we are
unable to believe that the women of
New Jersey are in any way less capa-
BILE or less praiseworthy.
"The evidence from the states In
which women have voted goes to prove
that with the possession of the ballot
women are more fairly treated under
the law, the working woman is better
protected and social and moral i'm
provement is accelerated
I'VE believe that the men of New
Jersey are prepared to show their be-
lief in their women as fully as the
men of the western states have been,
and we appeal to our Fellow voters TO
express this confidence by voting In
the affirmative on Oct 10.
.'It is no longer denied that woman
suffrage will shortly be established
throughout the United States, and as
New Jersey men we are anxious that
our state should be the first in the
east to raise the political status Of it's
women"
Banking Commissioner LaMonte,
when seen today, said that the com
mittee was a campaign organization
formed by the New Jersey Mems
League For Woman Suffrage. The
committee, he said. was prepared to
make substantial contributions to the
closing phases of the campaign, but
vas not yet prepared to divulge It's
plans.