Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-19
WOMEN OPPOSING
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4 1tuLuutu ttou Poft
/ to the plain provisions OF the Constitution
! of the State of Delaware.
| THAT the Constitution of the State OF
| Delaware provides that "Any amendment
| or amendments to this Constitution may
| be proposed in the Senate or House OF
| Representatives and If the same shall DO
| agreed to by two-t thirds of all the members
elected to each House, such proposed
amendment or amendments shall be
| entered on their journals, with the yeas
! and NAYS taken thereon, and the Secre-
! tarv of State shall cause such proposed
| amendment or amendments to be pub
| lished three months before the next
| general election in at least three ews-s
papers in each county IN which such new
papers shall be published; and If in the
| General Assembly next after the said cleo
| ton such proposed amendment or amend
| mentS shall upon yea and nay vote be
agreed to by two-thirds of all the MEM
bers elected to each House, the same
shall thereupon become part of the Consti-
tuition.
"In other words, any effort TO amend
the Constitution OF the State of Della
ware should be submitted after due notice
to the electors of the State.
''They are aware that certain amend
ments have been made to the Constltu-
ton of the United States affecting the
Constitutions of the individual States
but they insist that they were made In
times of great public crisis and that there
is no warrant for such action under any
other circumstances; that the present
question does not involve great national
crisis and that its decision should be left
TO the electors of the various states.
They most respectfully protest against
Il ri hot
believe the members of the Legislature
who may be induced to vote for the bill
TO approve the said amendment will do
so in direct opposition to their pledge to
support the Constitution of their own
State
They believe that the passage of the
so-called nineteenth amendment will
involve grave legal difficulties which may
question the validity of the next pres
Dental election.
MEETING IN Du BARRY ROOM.
Delegations from many towns in the
lower part of the State and also group
from Baltimore will come to Wilmington
tonight for the mass meeting. Originally
IL had been planned to hold the meeting
in the ball room, but this has been found
impossible owing to the room being
engaged for tonight. Efforts were made to
get the parties that engaged the ball
room to postpone their function, but this
could not be done, so the du Barry suite
waS taken and arrangements made 50
that other quarters in the du Pont Hotel
could be utilized for an overflow.
Dover, Milford, Milton and Georgetown
will send representatives to the reception
and meeting. From Dove viii come Mr..
and Mrs Henry Beers, Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Hall and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Crawford
Mrs. Rufus Gibbs, the leader of the
Maryland opponents 10 suffrage, tele-
graphed today that party Of Maryland
antI-SuffragIstS were coming
The ants of Delaware had hoped to
be able to get Elihu Root to come here to
speak but prior engagements prevented
this. Mr.. Root telegraphed that he was
extremely sorry that he could not speak
here to express once more his reason why
be believed the Anthony amendment
should not be ratified. He congratulated
the anti's on the fight they we're making
and sent his best wishes for their success
Judge Gray, who will preside at the
meeting tonight, viii welcome William
J Marbury the Baltimore legal leader who
is 10 speak at the meeting, greeting Mr.
Marbury at the railroad station on his
arrival here.
Other delegations of local ladies will
meet tho trains that bring Miss Mary G.
kilbreth, the national president of the
opponents to suffrage and other distin-
guished visitors TO the meeting
Tonight's meeting and reception will
begin at s o'clock In addition to Judge
Gray and Mr.. Marbury, Miss Charlotte
Rowe, field secretary of the national asso-
ono s.v,pAcnI IN r.Tlt
Miss Kilbreth NAV be induced to answer
some of the charges made by the friends
of suffrage Following the meeting there
will be a reception rendered Miss Kill
breth