Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-30
|SUFFRAG|STS SEEK
VOTES OF SENATORS
Prominent National Officers En-
tcrtaincd at Luncheon at
Hotel du Pont.

| about the passage OF the suffrage amend
| ment To the Federal constitution. De-
mocracy, according 10 Mrs. Gait, means
f-government, and again, according
to Mrs. Gait, self government means
vote, and thus she argued yesterday at
the Hotel du Pont, that democracy means
vote A delegation including Mrs
Gait, president of the National Woman
Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs. Maud
Wood Park, chairman OF the Congres-
sional Committee; Mrs. Borden Hartman
and Mrs Frank A. Nanderlip, came TO
this city yesterday and spoke ut lunch
con, held IN the grill roo m OF the hotel
Their advance agent Miss Leonard, had
been here several days before, and had
interested the Delaware Equal Suffrage
Association, TO sponsor the luncheon.
at which the leading officers of the nation
al association wanted to speak To arouse
Delaware, and through Delaware the two
Senators to put through the Susan b.
Anthony amendment. There was large
audience, and all were deeply impressed
and stirred by the speakers, but by Mrs.
, Catt IN particular.
TIE amendment has stuck on the Senate
, FIR lack of two votes, md Mrs. Gait
begged every one at the luncheon 10 try
TO make the Delaware Senators believe
that tho people want them TO work and
TO vote for the amendment, so that their
votes will carry il through. III any
| man or woman here docs not use their
influence for those two votes, she said,
he or she is plntter 10 keep the world
| back She referred to Senator Wolcott
as a young man given over To progress
/ along other lines and she thinks he should
be in line for equal suffrage She stated
that Dclawarc's Senators believe that
| the white women would not vote and the
! colored women would and she added,
If the white women haven't told them
they want 10 vote its no wonder thev
think SO.
Mrs. Gait stated that President Wilson
wants the amendment passed. the Dem
ocratic and Republican National Com
mittces have passed resolutions IN favor
Of it, and she thinks il won't stick in the
Senate any longer. il Delaware two
votes can be obtained
Two petitions. ono for men and ono
for women, have been prepared by Mrs.
Gait and the luncheon guests were
asked 10 sign as they went ont. They
ask Senators salisbury and Nolcott to
work and to vote for the amendment
and thus give to the women OF 'ms
country the privileges enjoyed by those
in Great Britain, New Zealand, Aus
tralia etc
Mrs. Gait proved The orator OF the
occasion. and received an ovation Mt the
close Of her address The other guests
also spoke. but all Of them more briefly
than Mrs Gait Mrs Park gave the
reasons for the amendment being held
up IN the senate and they were \ con
scrvatI~m that refuses 20 takc care Of
the future local prejudices. men tied up
by sci 81 business interests tho senate
curious way of po~tpaning things, the
ghost OF the states rights argument
Mrs Borden Hartman spoke 81 the
splendid var work women are doing IN
England and France. and Mrs. Frank A.
Nanderhp told Of the results already
evident from woman suffrage IN New
York
The guests were introduced by Mrs |
j. Frank Ball. vicc-president Of the Del |
aware Equal Suffrage Association. who |
presided al the luncheon.
Those ia attendance AZ the luncheon |
were Mrs Isaac fnkelsteln. Mrs sam |
uel Cannon Mrs Harold ; Schutt Mrs. |
{ b HennIng Miss Ethel Iallman, |
Mrs A W Armstrong, Mrs \orrls |
Smith Mrs HIlersohn. Miss Evangelne |
Parsky Mrs Dawes Mss Met omh, |
Mrs Wlne Miss Seipp, Mrs. 7 "
Eacchus Miss Osborne, Mrs. Charles |
NJ Curtis and two friends. Mrs. \. l.. |
Rear1ck, Mrs J H. StadelTnan, Mrs. |
John Thompson. Mrs Wallace, Mrs |
Fin Spare and one guest, Mrs. " Scott |
Vernon, Mrs s l. Foster Mrs. Joseph |
T Nichols. Mrs J. NJ Collins |
Rev George r Dole, J Frank Ball, |
Jerome r. Bell. Rev Robert Bel, Clf |
ford j Scott, Mrs Joseph Butterworth, |
Denver; Mrs. Arthur Stewart. Baltimore; |
Mrs G. 4 Jacquith Middletown. Mrs |
Levi Cooch Mrs Harry Hayward. |
Mrs Armstrong Newark, Mrs. John X |
NJ oore. Mrs DAVID W Masters, Miss |
Masters. Mrs J. { Reed Miss Madeline |
Reed Mrs George L Dole, Mrs. William |
NJ Field, Mrs. Samuel Bancroft, Mrs |
Ohio Rowland. MIS-. +. I. Belts. Mrs. |
ner. Miss Nav Fletcher. Mrs Willard T. |
Corkran, Miss Southland, Mrs Lilburn |
Chandler. Miss Alice Mercer, Mrs Fred |
Eden Bach, Mrs Paul du Pont, Mrs |
Henry j Krebs, Mrs. George W Denney |
Mrs r. Barclay Spicer, Mrs. l.. H. |
Mrs Frederick Bringhurst,
Mrs Dixon, Miss Sallio Carswell. Mrs J |
Bacon Stubs, Mrs. Charles +. White, |
Mrs Henry White, Mrs. Robert II |
Mrs. George G. Hall, Mrs. ].
c. Pennewil, Mrs. John r, Talley, Mrs |
Fred Mccall, MISS Katherine Bell Mrs |
William + Monlgle, Mrs. Josephine NJ K, |
White Delacour Mrs. William Staniar, |
Mrs Hugo Schlatter. Mrs. J. kearney |
Rodgers. Mrs. Elizabeth jackson, Mrs |
Charles r. Miller, Miss Helen Walker, |
Mrs Truman Campbell Mrs, John Ban
croft Mrs. G. ID McCorkndale, Mrs
Leonard Yerkes, Mrs. Clifford j Scott, |
Mrs Robert W Tomlnson, Mrs. ]. |
Frank Bah. Mrs Rachel Rowland, Mrs. |
John b. Bird, Mrs. Albert Rothschild, |
Mrs John d. Thompson, Miss Rietta
Emerson, Mrs Elizabeth Ward Emerson,
Mrs Pertha NJ Foster, Mrs. Howard ID. |
Ross, Mrs. John B. CIarkson. Miss Emma |
" orrell Mrs Frank G. Tallman, Mrs
Irving Warner. Mrs. Thomas ". Miller, /
Miss May Aldrlch, Miss Helen Aldrich, |
VI ISIS Elizabeth p. Speakman, Mrs. +. II.
Robinson Miss Mary r.. devon, Mrs
Martha Cranston, Miss Helen Cranston,
Miss Annie o. Churchman, Miss Marie
dds, NJ ISIS Clara Dill