Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-29
GOVERNOR PRESENTS
|. ACT IN BOTH HOUSES
Action Considered Official Signal
for Beginning of Fight
Long Expected.
LAUNCH FIRST OFFENSIVE
Anti-Suffragists Deliver Counter
Attack in Lower Legisla-
tive Branch.
LAUNCH FIRST OFFENSIVE

Governor Davis yesterday placed in
the hands Of the General Assembly the
amendment TO the Federal Constitu-
ton extending the right of suffrage
TO women.
The act OF the chief executive was
tnc o'nctal signal for the beginning
ever since the So!ons donned thnir
legislative suits and packed their grips
for Richmond
launched the first offensive for the
sunragists on the west side of the
Gap,1tol; rsln1n,;o wnere .f they introduced joint
tion or the amendment.
In the east wing the contending
u9rffs un,ie STUCK f,a to raiding party, tactics
the antisufragists delivered a counter
attack Miss Charlotte T. Rove. ma
.ionai heId secretary OF the Associa
ton Opposed to Woman's SuRraCe led
the charge.
scores Suffrage Leaders.
MISS Rove ascend.d to the platform
UPON which is the Speakers chair and
aHshwcrsd Hs,o speech to the House Of
followers SufraEists lined tho floor
ana the gallery. She scored them ali
without distinctions
She declared tina; tho suffr,ro ouoe
ton has reached crisis Her crftica !
opponents nodded assent and seemcd
10 Hn2nG;I HMqnGHr If there was more.
=
ny the sufragists. she told her
audience that Congressman - r
iay!or had made a grievous mistake
not scrambllng for place on the
6and wagon, hut both seemed anxious
Tor the hearse.
The sunraEis.s onaned ,h.,-
efrsni afnn3ed s3Sh tSa Others face to note the
sHn 70 take notes fcverishly.
stands for the principie or S,.tos;
rights. upon which rests the inteprity
~ ,;on inc repubiic; that the suffrage Tues-
leg!slative halls at Washming,o,nn m IN 'nr or
The suff,ray!s,s smiled ana
furiousiy. "'o'e
Family Enemy of Socialism.
Shc said that the greatest enemy of
socialism is the family. that canal
riEnts at the polls would do more than
"hS .hS '"inG ha sise TO break up the unity OF
me me nome; which holds toGethe r
through the principle OF interdencn.
achce and Is torn apart with the in
roduclon OF inde.endcnce of the
history OF the world has long survived
the ascendancy of woman in politics
All the while the sufrragists were
PREPARING for the counter-attack to-
Answering again Congressman Tav.
ioT, she said that child labor as used
IN me sugar beet industry OF his ma
I'VE colorado, where woman suffrage
has has obtained for many years, is the
Shamc OF the Commonwealth. and thai
The people OF tho State, far from thanE
ing senator Shaffroth for his laIbIors
on behalf Of the Susan B An
NOM amendment, turned him down
The sufrasists kept right on the
Joo OF taking notes
Miss Adele Cinrk to Answer.
MISS Rowe declared that one man
,old her he favored woman suffrage
because he wanted his wife. to be his
companion on the dav of election. N
80 with him to the polls and sustain
MN in his effort to vote Alright.
Wen, she said. ''it ] had a hus
oand VINO wasn't man enough 10 he
sustained without my help when he
went TO the ool,s. would lock the far
give him the key and go back tc
! Everybody laughed at this. includ.
ing the sufraGis,s. and most OF the
audience applauded
was announced tina; Miss Adele
6lark. OF Richmond will answer Miss
| afternoon.