The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-05-01


| am going TO do it,
James.
BY organizing the Fairhaven Anti
suffrage League. securing the support
OF the best people In the city. and
uprooting the false ideas which these
suffragettes have planted. IL you
want 10 see something doing. James
Montrose Hughes. just you watch
little Milly."
James watched. and what he saw
was lesson 10 him in the art and
science OF organization. Mrs. Hughes
was president Of the Home Mission
airy society OF her church. At the
meeting OF that body the very next
day she made an impassioned speech
ldenouncing the new movement as IT.
religious. and enrolled under her ban
ners a majority OF the members or
the society. Likewise Mrs. Hughes
was vice-president OF the Foreign Mis-
sionary society. and used her exalted
position therein to the same good END.
Furthermore. Mrs. Hughes was re-
cordins secretary of the Woman's Lit
erary club OF Fairhaven. treasurer
or the Society for the Re
generation of the Fiji islander.
corresponding secretary of the AS
ISOLATION for the Prevention and Cure
| OF Blackheads. vice-president OF the
Society for the determination OF Yer
min and Rodents. and memper OF
various exclusive sewing circles,
domestic science clubs, and charitable
and philanthropic organizations. Be
fore all the good ladies of these bodies
she pictured the horrors OF woman
suffrage so graphically that in less
than a month she had gathered around
her such an Anti-Suffrage league as
TO throw CONSERVATION into the ranks
OF the suffragists. As the latter re-
doubled their efforts TO meet the hos
tile advance of Mrs. Millicents co
horts, the city and state soon rang
with the question OF suffrage Every
body was talking suffrage. The min
listers OF the various congregations
discussed IL. pro and con. from their
pulpits. Housewives talked IL. over
their backyard fences School chill
dren debated II in their literary So
cieties. Office and shop became the
fields for lighting out the issue. The
man on the street corner gave ex-
preston TO his views with as much
emphasis and sober conviction as the
longer could the suffragists complain
of lack of interest The great inertia
/ OF the masses which they had strug-
gled vainly to overcome had disap-
peared as II by magic. Suffrage had
become the question OF the hour.
The campaign was a memorable
one. The suffragists worked like re-
incarnated beavers: but the dynamic
A. 1T IT,
IeXhaustible. and betting on the out
come of the election was three to one
in favor of the ants" when they
ANNOUNCED their final grand mass
meeting. TO take place in the largest
hall in Fairhaven the night before the
election.
The securing Of this hall for their
| meeting on the last night az the
campaign was coup d'etat for the
ANTS The suffragists held their
rally the night before. in the same
hall. and IL was generally conceded
that the enemy had the advantage. al
/ though the suffrage meeting was all
/ that could be desired in the way or
attendance and display OF interest.
/ Mrs. Hughes. who OF course had
been unanimously chosen president OF
I ~
chairman at the final meeting. IN.
Producing the leading anti" speakers
! who had been secured al great ex.
pense for the occasion. She herself
made touching address. I'm which
she portrayed the ideal cottage home.
with ramblers over the door and a
/ little plot Of ground in front. where
/ golden rods and hollyhocks grew.
uTTgra % ,prfIna.., N. gr.f.g4.-ft..
is the divincly appointed place or
woman-hcre In the home. surrounded
by her children. through them and
her husband ruling the world. God
has ordained special spheres OF action
for men and women lie created man
the sturdy oak. 10 draw sustenance
from the soil and Withstand the
winds or adversely. lie created wo-
man weak but beautiful. the clinging
vine that twincs about the oak. giving
Of its beauty and sweetness In ex-
change for its support To try 20
alter this divine plan. ladies and gen
uemen. is 20 ~ In the face Of Provi-
dence and bring down upon our heads
the wrath Of an insultcd deity"
James. who like most sensitive
persons was cursed with vivid
Imagination. Redeemed under the gaze
~ the assembled listeners lie &c.
cupiod % conspicuous place on the
platform as an example of "rcprc-
sentative citizen" a kind and loving
husband and father" worthy
Christian gentleman" and sundry
other Ike excellent characters. Co
whom The speakers made frequent
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