Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-02
HUGHES TO HAVE wOMEN's
SUPPORT, SUFFRAGIST SAYS
Congressional Union Leader Declares
Wilson Will Suffer in Election

Nr. George Morgan, leading Congress
sionai I-nion worker and chairman OF iOs
Membership Committee in the sixth Con- on
gressional District today, IN speeSu ~ 81
| tse Fsdsral building plaza. praised Candi-
date Hughes for his indorsement OF the
susan b Anthony suffrage amendment nut
oueried him on whether his party WouIu
also take the stand he has
Mrs Morgan was for FIVE years recoru-
inc secretary of the Pennsylvania Woman
e,,e,.oee Association. which is the organi-
zation DR. Anna Howard Shaw directed LOT
al many wears but latterly has been work
ine FOR the Congressional Union. which Is
the chief booster Of the Federal amendment
She addressed the crowd as follows:
candidate Hughes did well 70 come out
Cat tfooted for woman suffrage throughout
the tinted states, and II Is perhaps not MS
fault that he did not do better.
III would have been better IL he could
have taken up the suffrage question In his
carnegie Hall speech and have CHARMED
matters there AS IL is. we are bound TO
,aai tbst Mr. Hughes is personally in favor
of the submission and ratification OF the
nouch-prayed-for Federal amendment; but'
how about the Republican party? What
would his party do II 1t should again come
into power7 ~
nersonaI convictions and the convictions Of
the marty Of which he Is the leader. Would
Mr.. Hughes do the same when In the White
House?
Nevertheless. Mr.. Hughes is not on the
Lincoln Highway as compared with MT
Wilson, who should at once get out from
among the bad roads Of the State-by-State
method Secretary Daniels was right when
urinR the Democratic Convention to adopt
the Constitutions own plan OF amending
the Constitution. Nothing Is simpler tnan
that nothing Is more democratic Let MT
Wilson come out lat-footed and let the two
candidates race for the White House on tHe
Lincoln Highway"
The occasion at which Mrs Morgan spoke
was the first open-air meeting OF the season
for the Equal Franchise Society. Other
speakers were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Phillips.
suffrage organizers They, too praised
Mr.. Hughes for his Endorsement or the r eu-
eral amendment.
Millions OF voters will rally TO the sup
port Of Charles Evans Hughes, because the
Republican candidate has come out un-
uualifedly in favor of a constitutional
amendment for suffrage, Miss Caroline
Katzenstein said today. Miss Katzensteln
is secretary of the Equal Franchise Society
and one Of the powers in the Congressional
Union. which has been Jealous in its fight
for the Susan B. Anthony amendment, the
one Mr.. Hughes has Endorsed.
Miss Katzensten said Mr.. Hughes had
done absolutely all he could there was no
more could be asked OF him at this time
MIR. Wilson'S whole ATTITUDE she sslu
has been most unsatisfactory, He seems
to have no sense Of justice at all. All kinds
Of delegations of women have waited on
him: voting women, working women, club
women and he has met them or evaded
them all with excuses. different all the
time until finally he seems to have settled
down on States rights as safe excuse.
Other suffragists were elated. too Mrs
George A. Dunning, chairman OF the Woman
Suffrage party In this city. said:
I'VE appreciate keenly the fact that Mr..