Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-16

The suffragists of New Jersey, COM
pleting the windup of one of the most
remarkable campaigns ever conducted In
any State. confidently expect their energy
and zeal to be crowned with a victory
next Tuesday that will be anything but
Of the skin-of-the-teeth" variety.
Reckoning up the results of a minute
eer''.v canvass OF the State. Mrs Lillian
II. Feickert. president Of the Woman suf-
rage Association. declared that New Jer-
sey would go on record for votes for
women with 5000 majority and that IS
oi ene a counties would come out
strongly for the amendment.
She qualified this statement, however,
by asserting that well-deined rumors Of
the Intention of the interests opposed to
suffrage to beat the amendment "by
hook or crook would make II necessary
for the suffragsts to use every precau-
ton TO get square deal at the polls
on October 10.
Cameras to detect repeaters, will be
used by watchers ot the polls, after the
example set by the women OF Terre Haute
In securing evidence of fraudulent voting
Detectives will be placed in all of the
suspected districts and the watchers-the
nrst time that watchers at New Jersey
polls have ever included women-have
been Instructed to keep a sharp lookout
for any business that may interfere with
honest ballot-casting
1T will be particularly easy" said Mrs
Feickert, ito perpetrate frauds at this
election because II is possible for a man
TO register and vote on the same day. This
makes colonizing difficult to detect and
Wo have every reason to believe that the
interests against us will not hesitate to
bring large crews of men from the dis
reputable lodging houses of New York
and Philadelphia, who are willing to be
paid for this sort of thing, into New Jer-
sey just for election day and use them to
defeat us.
I'VE shall be ready for them, and no
stone Is going to be left unturned to have
this an honest election. Our mems league
Will be on duty all day, supplemented by
the women watchers, and just as soon as
repeating or colonizing Is detected there
will be arrests.
Il have 1t from a reliable source" Mrs
Feickert continued, that the liquor men
Of Passaic met in Paterson yesterday
and decided to take strenuous action
against us not only in these few days
preceding the election, but also to have
workers stationed near the polls to cleo
tioneer against the amendment But we
are going to win, despite this opposition"
According to Mrs. Feickert the only
man of power to come out i'm the open
and express active opposition to the cause
has been Boss Jim X. Nugent, of Essex
County. The fact that Essex controls vir-
tually one-hfth of the vote of the State
makes this opposition serious, the suffrage
leader realizes, but II is thought that
President Wilson's unequivocal statement
declaring in favor of suffrage and the an
nouncement of his intention to vote "yes"
on the amendment will more than over
balance Nugents influence
The action of the clergymen of all 1e-
nominations of Newark i'm organizing a
church committee on suffrage which
pledged itself 10 hold meetings IN
churches and to talk suffrage principles
from the pulpits, has delighted the suffra-
gists and Is expected TO go long way N
oTsetting the Nugent influence in his own
stronghold.
Then, too, the invasion of Jersey in the
last davs OF the campaign by speakers nf
national repute who have rallied to the
cause Is expected to have definite cf-
feet on Saturday night Senators Borah.
OF Idaho, and Hughes Of New Jersey,
viii take up the cudgels for the women IN
Paterson, while William jennings Bryan
will hold forth in Newark. The bonn
bafdment Of Nugent territory will be CON
tinued on Sunday night. when Senator
Moses r. Ciapp, OF Minnesota. and Lieu
tenant Governor Morgan. of Kansas. take
the stump In Newark Rabbi Stephen ).
Wise will speak in the iive Oranges.
On Monday night the campaign will be
tern'mated with six sectional parades
that viii embrace the entire State They
arc 20 be interurban affairs of more than
usual elaborateness. One of the largest
viii start at Elizabeth and disband at
Somerville
Another brilliant pageant will set forth
from. Camden and tour the towns of Cam
den County, Many will cover several
counties, so that the voters on the night
preceding the election will go to bed with
a very definite idea OF the way they ought
TO vote in the morning of the eventful
18th. when all eyes will be turned toward
New Jersey to see II she Is 10 be the hrst
state OF the conservative East 70 enfran-
ehise her women.