Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-03-03
CHALLENGES 'SUFFS'
TO MAKE CANVASS
Mrs. Thompson, of "Antis, -
Says Comparison Would
be Interesting
ASKS MISLED ONES
TO RETURN CARDS

Mrs. Henry b. Thompson. presidents
of the Delaware Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage, today challenged
the suffragists, if they think the
"antis" made an unfair canvass re-
Gently, to take a canvass Of their own,
and compare the two results.
In a communicat on to the editor Of
THE EVENING JOURNAL today up
holding the canvass OF the "antis,"
Mrs Thompson says;
May l ask that you publish in be-
half Of the Delwaro Association Op-
posed to Woman Suffrage, the full re-
suit of our canvass for anti-sufrage
ana suffrage names in your columns
by so doing you will doubtless
1 please great many Anti Suffrage
readers and possibly induce a few
more letters and poems from the Sun-
ragists. Our canvass was at no time
represented as a government canvass,
nor could II have been taken as com
pletely as a government canvass for
the census would have been taken, but
as far as IL was possible. we made an
impartial canvass OF the towns in the
State and most of the rural districts
OF course, at Suffrage homes, where
the door was shut on the canvassers
and the women refused their names
and at few shops and factories where
the managers refused TO allow en-
ployes TO sign, some names had to be
omitted and naturally some were
missed on both sides. 1t is safe to say
, however, that where one Suffragis
was missed, ten Anti's were omitted.
should there be any women who
feel they were misled by the questions
OF the canvassers and unwillingly en-
] rolled among the Ants. if they vii
send me their names and addresses,
) will gladly return their cards an,
! should an Anti-Suhragist or Suffrag
+ list not have been enrolled, l will hav
e them put down, on receipt of thei
= names and addresses, where the.
belong and publish their names &C
cordingly.
IF the suffragists feel we have mad
an unfair count, why don't they tax
canvass themselves and see how
! tallies with ours. This would be il
teresting and instructive. and W
then might cover the entire State.
Looking at it from any point
view, however, 21.92s signatures
y women who do not want to vote wi
n be hard to equal.
l. "Our canvasser reports that 80 p
d cent. of the women do not want su
p frage, five per cent. want it becau
r. they think that with the vote tn
~ can down the liquor question. al
y, the other FIVE per cent. want it b
~ cause they say they have as mu
- sense as their husbands, and. thei
fore. just as much right to vote.
Is "There is one thing, however, viii
ie puzzles me and I would like an {
le PLANTATION from the other side: II I
Oh suffragsts are right when they sta
b. the antis' are in league with I
" white slaves, rum dealers and 10
lie dopers CD, also the underworld. a
Id that we are almost all 'imbeciles,
it not a dangerous experiment TO J
N lease the vote of II 1928 women OF
IT, called questionable character, a
is would not the powers for good a
le civic betterment which the sunragls
possess be swamped by such owe
or whelming odds?"
at HE result Of the anti-sufIrage c.
yass. as furnished by Mrs. Thompson,