The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-28
PRESENT ARGUMENTS
TO SENATOR PAGE
Suifragists, After Holding Meeting in
Montpelier Saturday Night, Went
to the Senator's Home.

Mrs. Agnes Morey Miss Mabel Yer
non and Miss Lou Daniels left Montpelie
Saturday afternoon for Hyde Park
where this morning with others of tn,
Woman's party in Vermont, they were
in conference with Senator Carroll 5
Page according to an arrangement made
the place, TO suit the convenience of Sen
ator Page, having been changed from
Burlington to Hyde Park.
The meeting, which was held in the
county court house Saturday evening
with some 70 persons attending, may be
considered successful from the point of
view that il was an entirely different
audience from any which have gone be-
fore. A resolution was adopted for the
purpose of placing those present on rec
ord in favor of the suffrage resolution
now before Congress.
The meeting was presided over by Mrs.
j. B. Estee, who introduced as the first
! speaker, Miss Lou Daniels of Grafton,
who was one of the pickets arrested
| in Washington. She told the story of
| that performance and its results, closing
| by saying that if nothing more was &C.
| complished than the cleaning up of the
| Jail and prisons to which the pickets
were committed, that the picketing had
done great deal of good.
She was followed by Mrs Morey, who
gave the early history of the suffrage
effort, and the formation of the Wom-
ans party, which she said will not affil-
late with any political party until suf-
frage is adopted. They will fight the
party in power until they carry it
through. She said the reason why the
IL To-. tln,, aaI
campaign was because the Republicans
ran destructive. campaign which stood
for nothing, and that Hughes broke ev-
cry promise made TO the suffrage party
when he reached California, which was
the commencement of his undoing. She
claimed the women saved Illinois TO the
Republican party and that many Demo
Gratis did not return to Congress because
of the womens efforts. She claimed
less will return in the next congressional
election unless the Democrats fulfill |
their promise. She said in the coming |
action of the Senate on the measure |
they have found that Henry Cabot Lodge |
and John w. Weeks from Massachusetts,
will be against the resolution, for she /
claimed neither of them stands for any /
thing progressive.
Miss Vernon asked the audience TO
take Assistant Wilson's definition of
peace and apply it to the suffrage move
ment. She said Senator Dillingham; is
against the resolution because OF his
state rights arguments, but she claimed
this has gone by, She claimed that was
Greene's reason for voting
against the resolution in the House and
recorded him as standing with the ex-
RENE south ON suffrage. Senator Page,
he said, is one of the four doubtful ones
recording to a poll of the Senate. She
loped the women Of Vermont would
,riug enough influence upon him to bring
lin into the suffrage column.
DR.. Anna kelton presented the follow
ng resolution, which was adopted
Resolved, That this meeting of Yer
mont citizens in the court house of the
ity of Montpelier call upon the presi
ent and the Democratic administration
o urge upon the Senate the passage OF .
he federal suffrage amendment to the
nd that the claim of this government I
n its fight for world democracy may Y
tand fully vindicated by the practical 6
pplication of democracy at home; be Q
. also o
Resolved, That this meeting call upon I
enators Page and Dillingham; to main s
ain the proud record of this state as I
ioneer in all progressive movements, +
nd TO support with their votes the fed
raj suffrage amendment at time when
ne government is calling upon the wom
D of the nation for their indispensable 2
,rvice in the bearing of the burdens of
ar. Be ii
Resolved, That copies of these reso-
Itions be telegraphed to President Will |,
IN, Vice President Marshall Majority a
eader Martin and Senator's Page and 81
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