Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-28
SUFFRAGE RIVALS
HEARING
Advocates and Ants to
Send Big Delegations to
Harrisburg
TUESDAY
Question of Votes for Women
to Be Threshed Out Before
House Judiciary Committee

| Rival armies of suffragists and anti
suHragists will descend on Harrisburg
r"Nt Tuesday when public hearing is
h"Id on the Ramsey resolution to amend
the constitution to provide equal suffrage.
The hearing will be held IN the House
before the House judiciary General Com
ntdse, Of which Representative w. He
bor Dithrich, of Pittsburgh, is chairman,
at = O'Clock. Each side will have thirty
minutes in which TO present their argu-
mentS
Anti-suffragists asked for the hear
ing If the Ramsey resolution passes
THIS Legislature il must again pass the
one in 1921 and then be submitted to
referendum Of the voters at the No
E"mber election in 1921. A similar
amendment was defeated by the voters
in 1915.
Mrs. O. D. Oliphant. of Trenton. y. j.,
and Miss Charlotte Rowe, of Washing
Ton ID. C., will present the arguments
or the ants. Both are representatives
or the National Association Opposed 10
Woman Suffrage.
suTragists Silent on Speakers
Suffragists are preserving an air Of
mystery about their speakers. They are
not taking any chances on having the
opposition steal their thunder and will
not dlNulge the names of the two sneak
efs VINO Will present the suffrage argu-
ments.
Both the suffragists and antis plan 10
take big delegations from all sections of
the state to Harrisburg to- attend the
hearing. Antisuffragists plan to take n
delegation of from seventy-fve to one
hundred from Philadelphia. Surfragists
VIII take similar delegation from this
city
The suffrage delegation from PhiladeI-
Pn,a VIII De led by the following state
oUIclalS and district leaders Of the Penn
! SEIFania Woman Suffrage Association:
Mrs. Lewis S. Smith, vice president of
me state body; Mrs. George A. Dunnng,
Mrs Harry j.. Kohn, Mrs J. Claude
Bedford. Mrs William Ward. Chester.
Mrs, a. T. Burns. Mrs. George A. Piersol,
Miss Emma klahr Mrs. Wolstan Dixey,
Mrs. Joseph VI. Gazzam, Miss Anna
harris Snyder. Mrs. Thomas Robins.
Miss sarah Lowrey, Mrs. j. S. G.
Harvey, Radnor; Miss Helen Fogg, Mrs.
T.. Bowman Leaf Or. Alice Norton, DR..
Ida Stewart coghll, Mrs. Ralph
Raiguel, Miss Margaret Mackay Wilcox.
| Mrs. Edward Parker Davis, Mrs. IredeIl
Eachus, Mrs. Harriet L. Hubbs, Miss
Sarah Chambers, president of the Phila-
deIphia County Association Mrs. f. Q.
A. Ellis, Miss Gertrude Atkinson and
Miss NJ. Elizabeth Clark
To Head Anti Delegation
Antisuffragsts will head their dele
cations with the following: Mrs Horace
| Brock. Mrs. J. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs
John r. Markoe, Mrs Charles w. Henry.
Mrs. X. Frank Clapp, Mrs William
| Biester, Mrs. George w. Barr. Miss Mary
ID. Ashbridge, Miss Frances. Biester. Mrs.
John Solenberger and Mrs. Robert
! Glenn.
| Most of the sutfragsts and antis will
.cave Philadelphia Tuesday morning on
the lo:25 o'clock train from Broad
| Street Station. Some Of the anti's will
go to the Capitol the night before.
Both sides are confident of victory.
| The suffragists are confident because
Representative William r. Ramsey, of
Chester, the administration floor leader
in the House. will lead their fight. Gov
ernor Sproul also is pledged to suffrage
and voted for the amendment while a
member of the Senate in 1918 and 1915.
AntisufPraglsts are banking on the
Legislature following the example set
! by the United States Senate, which fail
ed to approve federal suffrage amend
ment.
Suffragists Will hold their state con-
Vention in the Bellevue Stratford Hotc,
April s. 2, and 10. The annual suffrage
/ banquet will be held April O.