New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-02
Interests
Hostile toCause,
Say Sufragists
VETS" More Bitter Than
Ants, Evidence Shows,
They Assert

The hostility of the liquor interests
toward woman suffrage more active
thap that of even the anti-sufragists
themselves, is an axiom OF suffrage
campaigns. And although anti-suffra-
g,Sts deny any association with the
liquor men. and the liquor men return
the compliment. the data department OF
! the National American Woman Suffrage
Association has produced evidence OF
/ their sympathy Of feeling and unity OF
/ action.
/ The most ccent example IS shown in
| Ohio during the last few months. In
! February the Ohio Legislature granted
/ Presidential suffrage 10 women. where
/ upon petitions for referendum OF the
question were filed by the opposition.
/ The petitions were examined by suf-
| fragists, and were last week thrown
4 out by the court or the ground of IL
legality.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, president
of the Ohio sufFragists. makes the fol
/ loving report to THE Woman Citizen"
/ the official suffrage magazine:
That il is clearly true that three
fourths, probably nine-tenths, of the
petitions were circulated by saloon
keepers, baItenders, brewers and
other liquor men.
That in Franklin County, of which
/ Columbus, the state capital, IS the
/ county seat. the name of the leader
| Of the "wet" forces is signed either as
attcstant or notary to approximately
/ 90 per cent OF the petitions; he also
signs himself under oath ION the
regular payroll of the Ohio Associa-
ton Opposed to Woman Suffrage"
That the "Allen County Liquor
League" the STARK County Allied
Liquor and Trade Association and
the "Sandusky Brewing Company
were directly and indirectly lined up
against the sufTragists.
That in Champaign County Larry
Ryan, recognized leader Of the
'wets." circulated petitions.
That in Clinton. Summit, Huron,
Perry and Putnam counties brew
ers and burtenders did practically
all Of the circulating.
In 1914 the seven state campaigns did
not suffer from lack Of attention on
the part of the liquor men. In Ohio
The Liberal Advocate" official organ
Of the Ohio Liquor League, ran a series
Of anti-sufrage articles by Florence
Goff Schwarz, business secretary Of the
Cincinnati Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage This magazine also
published a picture of Mrs. A. j.
George, an anti-sufrsge speaker. Of
Massachusetts,, and an extract from
Mothers Real Place" by Grace Duff
field Goodwin.
In 1914 the Local Alliance Column
bia. German liquor organization.
sent out letter to its members, say
ing; Our German women do not want
the right to vote, and since our OPP
ponents desire the right of suffrage
mainly for the purpose of saddling the
yoke of prohibition on our necks, we
should oppose 1t with ali our might.
With true German greeting" signed by
the Committee"
The German-Amerlcan Alliance fought
the referendum, and this last summer,
1917, collected signatures for the ref
erendum Of the limited suffrage law
that the Legislature has passed.
In Michigan the Stastsverband
Michigan, d. A. y. b." fought the
amendment bitterly. Marrow minded
ness will triumph wrote the "Staats-
verband to its members. "fanaticism
will flourish, prohibitionists and their
refuse. the Anti-Saloon League, will
easily set up for dictators in the State
Of Michigan"