The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-30
IMPRESSIONS OF
PITTMAN MEETING

Editor Silver State:
Last night, as / sat in the audience
listening to the golden tongued ora
tor" misrepresenting the law and the
constitution of the United States so
that it would defend President Will
son, and the Congress of Democratic
and Republican Senators who voted
against the Susan b. Anthony amend
ment, / thought of the time he was
here before and how we local women
of Winnemucca went to this same
opera house and listened to Key Pitt
man, to hear. if he would give us one
kind and encouraging word about suf-
frage in Nevada.
/ sat there as / did last night and
heard all about tariff and all kinds
of stuff as we did last night, but not
one little word about suffrage. No,
we had no vote and it was not worth
his while to mention the subject.
Moreover the leaders and the bosses
were against it. Last night he gave
us the first of the evening when ev-
cry person was ready to listen. He
spoke on that platform and made
statement about the law, that he
knows thte he is not sure about. He
did not mention how other amend
ments have been added to the consti-
tuition He did not say anything about
the amendment which gives direct
vote of the people for United States
Senators. No, he never mentioned any
of those things, but took pains to con-
vey the impression that the efforts OF
Al. IN
Susan b. Anthony amendment
through Congress, was the idea
brought here by English militant wo-
men. He did not tell you that Susan
B. Anthony had worked to get this
same idea through Congress when
the negroes were enfranchised. that
she and other noble women had gone
to Congress year after year to try to
chang or add to the constitution. No.
he never mentioned that, but he stood
on that platform and gave so much
of his time to threatening us that If
we did not vote for the Democratic
party we would hurt our cause"
How will we hurt our cause by not
voting for Congressman or President
If the constitution is against US? and
/
cause. now that we have the vote, by
using it to defeat men who were
afrand to tell other men in our town
and county to "give us the vote to
help us get what he knew was right
believe that every intelligent woman
there last night could see clearly how
strong we are with the ballot to back
us. when a Senator of the United
States will give us the most of his
time to convince us that he wants us
not to fight or oppose his party.
think it was the most convincing ar
gument that standing together and
voting for the women of the East and
South will give them the same power
to form unions and protect our wo-
men and children from the same cor
porations that he told us about.
Just think of the power of the bal
lot and what it would do for the un-
protected women of the East and
South who work for a wage that
means starvation. When the brother
hood who have the vote of four hun
dred thousand men can go and de-
mand a law and get it without mo-
ment's hesitation.
We women of Nevada are willing
to be dubbed "militants" when we
know that by casting our vote Tor
our sisters in the east, we are help
ing a lust cause and we console our
selves by knowing that if Mr. Hughe
were President and Mr.. Wilson were
trying to get his job that if we were
fighting the Republican party as we
are the Democratic party, the Sena-
tor who called us militants last night
would have stated from that same
platform that the women OF Nevada
were loyal to the cause of womanhood
and to the rights of all women and
are using the only effective method
to get justice.
There IS an old saying and | never
realized it as much as | did last night
ut makes quite a difference whose
OK is gored." And this time it means
the Democratic OK or rather, donkey.
If it had been the elephant, what
different talk we would have listened
to. / am proud to sign myslf a mil
liant" and martinez" when l know
that the noble women he mentioned
last night. DR. Anna Howard Shaw,
and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, are
working for the Susan b. Anthony
amendment as ardently as any women
in the United States. | am proud to
follow them for know they are striy-
ing for a principle and not for pub
lie office They are working for wo-
men and children, not for party poll
tics, nor for a salary to live in Wash
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