The sun., 1919-08-14
10000 SUFFS TO
WAR UPON NUGENY
New Jersey Women Also
Sharpen Their Hatpins for
G.. o. P. Candidate.
WILL ENTER PRIMARIES
Bugbee Accused Of Dodging
but Democratic Boss Boasts
Of His Hostility.

The New Jersey primaries, which
promised considerable Excitement any,
way. what with eight candidates for
Governor and various complications, are
to be further enlivened by the entrance
Of the women into the fray.
For some weeks the Woman Suffrage
Association Of that State has been un-
certain whether Il should train its gun,
on the primaries or wait until candi-
dates were chosen before starting in 10
fight those known to be u~nfrieDdly to
the ratification Of the Federal suf-
frage amendment.
At a victory rally Of the ratification
committee held yesterday in the New
Monterey Hotel, Asbury Park. two hun
dred SUITS. representing the $780, 900
members of the State organization,
unanimously decided on the former
course. About $4,000 was pledged on
the spot to start the campaign, which
Is to be "unsensational," Mrs. E.. r.
Feickert Of Plainield, the State chair
mar said. but Intensive and thorough"
The barring Of sensationalism was
taken to be a criticism OF the methods
OF the National Woman's party. which
the other day paraded through Trenton
| with flags and banners to ask Gov. Rum
| yon to call a special session of the
Legislature for the purpose OF ratifying
the suffrage amendment. The State as
ISOLATION doesn't want a special session,
| as the seats OF six Senators are vacant
now. and 1t always gets riled when Mrs.
j. A. H. Hopkins of the National
Woman's party stages a parade.
Un~sensational though 1t may be. the
frontal attack of the SUITS IS likely to
| cause some discomfort 20 James r. Nu-
| oant ~ Nauyork DamOcFaf ~ u.hpro to
is said that every New Jersey suff
| makes him the subject of a special
! malediction before she goes to bed at
| night. Mrs. Feickert in her speech yes
terday gave this boss and aspirant for
g~ubernatorial honors a foretaste Of what
he will get.
Recalls His Boast.
THE more or less honorable James r.
Nugent," she said, doesn't approve Of
the Federal suffrage amendment. He
thinks the United States Government
put one over on him when II adopted
that amendment. Nugent boasted that
he defeated State woman suffrage here
in 1915 by putting the election on reg
istration day, making II impossible for
us to find out whether the men who
voted were entitled to do so. Woman
suffrage came as near winning in Jer-
sey that veal as II did in New York.
and in 1917 New York enfranchised its
women by an Overwhelming vote, and
I am convinced New Jersey would do
the same did not our State Constitution
forbid its resubmission so soon again.
Now Nugent. packed by the anti-woman
sufrragists, opposed the ratification Of
the Federal amendment. And the ants
have dared to boast that they have no
| cnnnaCtinn with the yiCiOlla elements
OF the State! -
However. the suffs are strictly nom
partisan and the Republicans came In
for strong condemnation by Mrs. Feick-
ert for proposing a referendum on the
suffrage amendment. And unless New
ton A. X. Bugbee, State Comptroller
and one of thn four Republican candi-
dates for Governor, comes out and re-
nounce the action of his party in this
he will be as strongly opposed In the
primaries as will Mr.. Nugent. The
other three G.. Q. r.. candidates, Gov.
Runyon, Warren c. King of Bound
Brook and Thomas Raymond. City
Commissioner of Newark. have salts
fed the sufs of their loyalty to the
Federal amendment, and so have the
other two Democratic candidates, State
Senator Edward l. Edwards and Frank
H. McDermit. But Mr.. Bugbee has not
declared himself, according to Mira
Feickert.
Calls 1t scheme to Delay.
The proposition to submit the Fed
eral am ,ndment to the voters Of New
Jersey" she said yesterday, which was
ircluded in the charter or programme
adopted at an unofficial conference OF
the New Jersey League of Republican
Clubs very recently, is simply a scheme
to delay ratification long enough to KEEP
women from voting for President in the
1920 Presidential election. Several Re
publican leaders have told me that. Such
n referendum would have no standing
It would be simply a straw vote. The
law provides hat Constitutional amend
ments shall be acted on by the State
Legislatures. But the political Leaders
have their plans doped out for the 1926
election, and they don't want a lot o.
women voters coming in and perhaps
upsetting those plans. So the Repuo'
licans propose this referendum to stav'
off the dreaded infux-and Mr., Bugbe,
vas one OF those who voted for the plan
we understand.
w must get right out and put W
the matter of the amendment TO every
NdiluiudNc, llOSc lot bONtIH OT anu l'
the Legislature. and before primary day
on September 23 we must know whert
ovcry one stands. New Jersey must no
lag in the ratification. We wan 1t ou
OF tho way by next March, certainly
Our big sister States. Pennsylvania, New
York and Massachusetts, have hasteneC
tn ratify fourteen State Legislatures
have taken the step already. and W
Jersey women don't want TO be In thu
position of having the vote given us BY
the men of other States"
At the afternoon session there was 8
re using speech by Mrs. Hslsey W. WI
son OF New York, corresponding sec
rotary of the National Woman SuIras'
Association. and Burdette G.. Lewis o.
the State Department OF Institutions AM
Agencies. told the SUITS some OF IN
things in which they could improve IN
StatA when they got the vote. He con
! fessed that he was ono OF those wh'
used to SCOT at policewomen and otne'
invasions of the sex into oficlaldom, pu
} ten years experience In correctloha
work in New York city, he said, had con
l WINGED him that men were too sehu
mental" to deal properly with wonel
l offenders. and they needed the stern run
= OF their sister women.
/ The meeting ended with a tribute TO ~
Anna Howard Shaw and the adoption .
: a resolution expressing the women SUI
l fragists' sense of great loss In her ue"''