Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-02
The PiCketing Campaign Nears Victory
Speech Mabel Advisory December7

| should like TO go back to the 9th
of last January. Probably great
many of you went to the President on
that day in delegation which pre-
sented TO him the resolutions adopted
nj tho memorial services for Ine7
Milholland
In San Francisco and in New York
memorial services were held, and on
Christmas day in Statuary Hall at the
Capitol there was that beautiful sery-
ice that many of us remember, ii
made an impression, think, that we
will never allow TO escape from our
memories. These services were filled
with the very spirit Of lncz Mil
holland herself She had the un-
dauntcd kind of spirit that never
recognizes defeat that is always filled
with the desire 10 go on and do more,
do the thing which will win II was
that spirit which caught each one of
those services.
The resolutions addressed to the
President said MIR President, We
appeal 10 YOU To put stop TO all fur
thcr waste OF effort on the part Of
women in this struggle to procure stlf-
frage MIR President, we appeal 10
YOU Ia put a stop to any further waste
of life on the part Of women in the
fight for their cnfranchisemcnt
It was rather difficult 10 procure
that audience with the President
It. took good hit Of persuasion, not
only from Us, but from members OF
Congress. from Senators and from
Representatives, to make the PrcSi-
dent see that ne really should receive a
delegation Of suffragists on thus oc-
casion and hear from them what they
desired OF him IN the light of what
he had sand IN the light Of what he
had written during the few months
past, il would not have been on ama2-
Ing thing at al, If on this january day
he had simply announced: Yes. |
am going TO recommend the passage Of
the National Sui!rasr Amendment to
Congress, / am gong 10 put ali my
power behind ii
You remember how he had gone
down To Atlantic City and told the
convention Of national sufTragists that
he had come TO fight with them
You recall how in the campaign IN
the West for election. President Viii
N'fI iiI0 Stl4t I1iAA kltltEl3 oIatOfS 10
speak for hIm IN regard To woman suf-
frage ! can remember very well how
MIR Dudley Field Malone came to
Reno. when We were campaigning
there. and said as the chief point in nus
address to women voters on that night.
that we need not be afraid 10 vote for
President Wilson if we cared ANYTHING
about national woman suffrage, that
the President truly was the friend OF
woman suffrage, and that if he were
returned 10 the White House through
the help Of the Western women, there
would soon be action on the national
suffrage amendment.
Not only the spoken words OF ora
tors but literature from the campaign
committee Of the Democratic Party
gave us hopes that President Wilson
had come to the point where he would
stand for national suffrage. Il intend
to vote for woman suffrage in New
Jersey because ! believe that the time
has come TO extend that privilege and
responsibility to the women OF the
State" That was the statement
from the White House, when Presi-
dent Nllsonn set out to New jersey to
vote for woman suffrage there In 1915.
But this little document which /
hold in my hand, and which was spread
throughout the West, so that every
woman who was going to vote received
one, has had q change made In it. 1t
reads: Il intend to vote for woman
suffrage IN New jersey because | be-
lieye that the time has come to extend
that privilege and responsibility to
The women of the nation, October 6,
1915, Woodrow Wilson Certainly
we had reason To believe, when this
came from the national Democratic