Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-24
SUFFRAGE ROLLER
NOW BAND WAGON
Delegates to State Conven-
tion Climb on Steam
Engine
POLITICIANS ARE RAPED
workers Warned Against Wiles
of "Well-Oiled" Opposition
in Philadelphia
POLITICIANS ARE RAPED
Ru M,L1ss

BY M'L1SS
wtI.LIAMsPoRT. Pa, Nov. 2i,-Four
avs ago the leaders OF the Pennsylvania
s,,ffrarists. captained by such women as
uJaa NJ Carey Thomas, president of'Bryn
stawr and Mrs John o. Miller, of Pitts
hurFh most potent members OF the state
executive board set In motion the machine
~ the forty-eighth annual convention OF
ths pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton.
II had ali the aspects and appearances
ala this machine--of steam roller
nut Il rolled quietly, so efficiently and
1, dattened the opposition so calmly and
40 painlessy that this afternoon at the
sdIournment complete metamorphosis OF
mis- machine was noticeable The steam
roller became a band wagon and everybody.
syen those who thought they were In a
terribly dlsgusted condition, climbed aboard
and rode away happily to theiT respective
homes.
The high points OF the program. put
through by the state Board-canny old.
guard that II ls--are:
The minimizing OF the power OF the
Z suffrage clubs by a reduction OF their
representation and by amalgamating
them with the womans Suffrage party
through the political organization OF
the counties; this being done through
the hotly contested revision OF the con-
EtItution and bylaws.
The answering of the criticism of
Mrs John o. Millers "bossism' by her
resignation from tho State chairman
ship OF the Woman Suffrage party,
resignation which in no way lessened
her power. but merely diverted 1t TO the
vice presidency an office which she
holds
The raising OF n fund sufficient to
take suffrage in Pennsylvania of n
fve-cent basis and put 1t on one more
nearly comparable with that OF the OPP
position 1t has to fight.
DELEGATES PLEASED
The consensus of opinion among the
majority of suffragists is that this was one
of the best conventions ever held in point of
the plans made. which, is carried out, will
nut the suffraglsts in n position more
strongly fortified against the enemy than
they have ever held before.
Before the adjournment Miss Ida Stokes
Adams, of Philadelphia, chairman OF the
Tesolutionsscommttee, urged that the con-
vention go on record as pressing the pas
sage of the corrupt practices act" by the
Pennsylvania State Legislature, aboishing
the present vicious voters assistance
clause" and also urging an act providing
effectual punishment for offenders
She also advised that an emphatic pro-
test be made to President Wilson and the
executive heads of the Civil Service against
the discrimination being made against
women applicants for Government jobs"
other resolutions passed were n vote
OF thanks to Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State
Health Commissioner, for giving the suf-
fragists the opportunity Of helping to stamp
out the nfantile paralysis epidemic in the
State congratulations to Miss Jeanette
Rankin, of Montana the first woman Con-
gressman congratulations to the women of
Manitoba for their acquisition Of the suf-
frage in 1916, and an appeal to the Penn
sylvania Congressman to work for the Fed
eral suffrage amendment.
The nonpartisanship of the State associa-
tion was reafflrmed. In outlining the need
of the Pennsylvania farmers wife for the
vote, Mrs. Jean Kane Faulke. OF the Penn
sylvania Department of Agriculture, in
most feeling address startled the conven-
tion with her revelations of the conditions
under which the farm women of this State
work
Because of the shortage In farm labor,
women are working out 1 saw one woman
driving a corn binder and working In the
field with her husband who told me she
had been Obliged to send her youngest child
three years old, to her mothers for the
day. as 1t was too large now for her to
carry on her lap while occupied In such
work.
Il spent n night in house where the
house mother not only had her own family
to board, but little orphan child whom
she was mothering and caring for. She
had been up since three O'Clock the morning
assisting in the butchering of ten hogs-for
which her husband would pocket the check
and her own compensation would be the
FEELING that she had helped her man This
woman was not content not because OF the
work. for she was willing and loving and
glad to help. but she spoke 10 me with
tears In her eyes of the fact that the School
board was corrupt and the school building
and equipment not what 1t should be- that
the road passing her house was impossible
Tor months in the year. She also told me
she had to drive her man to the polls
when 1t came to the election of local off,
cials, as he took no interest In 1t and said
mat 1t was all 'hxed' anyway
WAKING UP MEN FOLKS
The men are TO be pItied, for they real
lze that something is wrong, but they
become SO used to seeing women living and
being treated certain way that they do
not realize this could and should be diff
Ierent They are unwilling 20 acknowledge
mat woman should work out" in more
senses taan the cornbinder.
Men are sent to the Legislature and
gwen ONCE who do not represent us, who
40 not care for our real interests but
whose interest Is in themselves and their
object to stand up so that they may go
oack for other terms. Our local govern
hent is controlled for US men are ap-
pointed or elected TO official ofics not be-
cause OF their suitability 10 fsll the posi-
non, but because OF the votes they con-
problems that Philadelphia will have to
meet in fighting at the next referendum
me me 'well-oiled, powerfully financed" po-
Atlcal organization alfgned against auffra ga