Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-20
gIFFRAGISTS HERE
70 REDOUBLE EFFORTS
AFTER JERSEY DEFEAT
markers Not Giving Themselves
Time to Be Pessimistic, but
Begin Laying Plans to
Offset Effect
OPEN QUARTERS EARLY
,.a;eerent Women, Says Leader, and
Not the Men Across Delaware
Are Responsible for Setback

.,,,, Of dogged perseverance plus a
hss.,,,ration TO work harder than ever
q ,hs days that remain before the wom-
- enfranchisement amendment comes
e.fore the electorate IN the Keystone
49,. n,s. an November is animating the
sss,u .nmen Of Pennsylvania today.
-, g,vinR themselves time to be pes
",,e nv over the overwhelming defeat
.aa, me New Jersey suffragists suffered
.,.,.rdav. but at the same time not min
lse,,g The tremendous influence that a
s'..r,, across the Delaware would have
rt 10 them, the philadelphia fran
ns,se advocates opened theif headquarters
.a,1,er than ever this morning and began
\<.sing mans to neutralize the effect of
M New Jersey decision.
The consensus of opinion Of the Phila-
s,lnhia workers is that the men of New
s,rsev are not to be saddled with the
rhole blame for the defeat. Indirectly
ihe women are responsible.
.Neither are lhe-women who are act
,,siv opposing u.s." said Miss Mary II.
,nrham. vice president of the Equal
rranchise Society. Their opposition
sn,ounts to nothing. II is the attitude OF
M indifferent woman; she who is not
wake TO woman's need Of the ballot. She
a the type who cannot be made to realize
ihat the state needs the feminine in
euence as well as the home and she
must be aroused
ALTHOUGH we are not letting the New
Jersey defeat discourage us to any great
,rtent,p she continued. still we women
Al Pennsylvania know that Il means we
viii have to work doubly hard"
IN the opinion of DR.. Eleanor M
HIestand- Moore, nothing is so wholesome
As a good thrashing.
I'VE are only stimulated to greater
Effort" she said cheerfully. and after
ali. the returns from New Jersey, the
frst Eastern State to vote ON the issue,
are nothing like so overwhelming as they
were the last time in Ohio. and that was
the second time the amendment had come
up.
The suffrage spirit is not one to be
fffected by defeat. Ultimately the wo-
men OF the entire country will be en-
iranchised; it is only a question of time.
II not this time, then the next. Nothing
can stop us.
"The Jersey results she continued.
show the Democratic party up in a bad
lght. because with that States big Dem
ocratic majority II is equivalent to the
party turning down plank in their own
platform. l should not be at all sur
prised to see the suffragists of New Ter
lsy take hand in politics in the next
lew years
The defeat in New Jersey will only
make Pennsylvania suffragists work
harder for victory in this State in No
Rmber." said Mrs. Wilfred Lewis, presi
dent OF the Equal Franchise Society.
Il do not think it will have a great
effect on the situation here. II shows
how hard the task is and what we must
accompllsh before the coming election.
The liquor interests have a strangle
hold on New Jersey and the State seems
to be unable to throw 1t off. Undoubt-
edly the defeat of the amendment was
due to those interests and the politicians.
The better element of people all lined up
behind President Wilson when he cast his
vote for suffrage. The only trouble was
that there were not enough of the better
tlement who voted Suffragists have
very bad class of people to fight in OBJ
aiming the vote. The lowest element in
syery community constitutes the opposi-
ton. l still think or rather hope. we
viii be victorious in this State"
ANTS NOT SURPRISED"
Anti-suffragists, Of course, are patting
themselves on the back. According to
Mss Florence Hall, chairman of the
Public Interest Committee of the Penn
pivania Association Opposed to Woman
Searage. the $1,000 majority is exactly
= hey claimed it would be- The New
eNey husbands, in the opinion of Miss