New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-25
Suffrage a Live Issue
with GlenS Falls Voters

rF-o-r stsT Correspondent @; The Irluune.l
Glens Falls, y. Y, Oct. 24.-Woman
MIRAGE is q live issue here. Two or
rsnilations Of women, one working for
The ballot and the other directing its
activities against the woIaen who want
70 vote. threaten TO keep things stirred
I'd until the election.
The woman suffrage amendment
will surely be defeated" Mrs. Loyal
/. Davis, wife Of Warren County
attorney. declared this afternoon.
We are confident Of success on No
vsmber @" said a young suffrage work
Or. speaking in the absence Of the
psr,y's local leaders, who had gone to
New York TO march in the parade.
Glens Falls is a hustling little COM
nunity Of about 5000 residents. 1t
ia In Warren County, on the upper
Hudson. Booms stretch across the
r7U 10 catch floating logs that are
ccrysrted into paper in the mills here,
shict give employment to a great pro-
portion Of the city's voters.
Tie result Of the campaigning Of the
women is a keen realization on the
Jsrt Of the men that woman suffrage
Is serious question. Sentiment on
The subject appears 10 be evenly d.
yded.
Straw Vote in Paper Mills.
A straw vote taken in two o. the
paper mills showed Al in favor of en-
trsnehising women and ~ opposed
The doubtful ones numbered 16.
When the request for permission to
nSe a poll in the plant of the Inter
national Paper Company, one Of the
largest pulp mills here. was made,
George Wilson, the superintendent
said:
The men have not taken the ques-
Ton seriously. and IL is quite evident
70 ne that they would laugh II you
nked them how they were going to
vote"
Nr. Wilson's opinion Of the disin-
tfes.edness Of the mill workers, how
''sr, proved wrong As the men on
ne o'clock shift fled out only six
esi Of forty-seven were undecided
me others answered with a promptness
and vigor that left no doubt where
Ney stood on the question.
Sure. I'm going 20 vote for it," oil
III be ID If the women will evei
/ ld NY vote" were some Of the en-
Faaue answers as the men left the
taymasiers Office.
The staff Of six men in the super
h'shcent's Office all voted mo" One
sl3 surprised at the reporter for hi'
liability 70 guess the answer.
10 look anything like q man whC
s'sld be foolish enough 70 vote II
''Vor Of woman sufregel" he asked
Too Many sisters-in-Law.
After signifying his intention Of vot
- IN the negative, one man Of mid
us age said:
10 10 be sure am going TO vot'
ard for what reason?" the super
1kncent asked.
a well, you should know the answe,
~ vel as !. the workman replied
.9a are married, you know" he con
...ee' addressing his remarks TO th'
NIogaior, 81 am not alone married
:. see very much Of my mother-ln
sho my sisters-in-law. Ny WIFI
Eve sisters"
mere are TOO many women work
now" said a fatherly employs
a.ahg girls should be kept in thei
@s and taught their household du
II not only has bad moral ef
IN .N women, but by women going u
ior lower wages than a youni
d Affects the wage standard OF tn
"ho from time immemorial ha
,Jy07ed the home. IL is not loni
- young girls 20 10 work that moth
influence upon them is lost
,',her worSer opposed woman sur
because, he said, he wanted M
De an aristocrat.
a., loong man who admitted beini
sEso only a few weeks stated
49, ! have not given the vote
.gnt yet"
go sSs'nef man. Of middle age, intro
bachelor, said he was sur
i,sS,.| see 50 many men in the mil
+ se 70 woman suffrage.
y,r 1 ~. here, jim" he said, don
~'hk your wife is as capable o
s,s,s as some Of the worthless char
W this neighborhood?
EsIS she knows a lot more abou
s,.:aa a replied, "bui she has TOO man!
,n.es already"
81 Two workers on the afternoon
s,,, the Finch Pruyn paper mil
IA lnterrogated. A slight majorit,
!. sssainst votes for women. The de-
a'''t stood, is for, "a opposed
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