Tr- '""'Ciae'-TYv-- S - - JT .'m.' - o . i 'JVC -. W-'" - T;, V?' ' ,.., .' . J.' KiLJfi r wx .'a" JL v r f .... 'x v y- tiA &r v-- s- ""5? - c .4-- i r. jir 5C' ti X THE WASHINGTON HEI&II. SUNDAY; MARCH 8. lMggfigfe IDA HUSTED HARPER ON WOMSN SUFFRAGE the community, as one Senate, .which the Republicans refused for more than Its advocates never made as many blunders' in speech as a responsible member al than as one receiving favors twenty years. and action as-- now and the cause never made as rapid having authority rather class.'' Com- The Washington Herald's Symposium en This is written before the final vote, but the pre- progress. t from a privileged The Hearkg Beferethe Judiciary -' liminary skirmishes showed a favorable sentiment that Though they bad all discretion and all wisdom While all expressed a desire to use the ballot for 1$ humanity, personal indepen- mittee and an Analysis ef the Policies "Why I Am a Suffragist" a Striking ought to be sufficiently strong to save 'the party from and had not votes women were as sounding brass and the general good of yet tinkling cymbals. With the winning few more dence, liberty, self-respe- the right of the citizen, were the-Concre- Mod- total extinction by the 'Congressional Union. At 'the of a of the Political Parties Toward the Example m of the the de- hearing before the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, States they will have to stand aside to avoidrthe stam-- the dominant notes, the primary reasons of These were new; Cause Votes-for-Wome- n. "Chatter- ern Spirit that Is Dominating This when this was threatened. Representative Carlin, of mand for enfranchisement. not e! Virginia, the Re- nearly every one of them was urged by its advocates - Says Mrs. Harper asked a pertinent question: "Since ing of Sparrows" Compared with the Movement,"- The publican party has failed you for forty years why do more than fifty years ago; the only difference was Old you propose to vent your wrath on us at the first that then they were subordinated to the world's need "Oratory" of First Suffragist!. and the New Woman. - triair of woman suffrage and the great- social reforms that the individual bene- Womu Suffrage Politics. could be accomplished by it, while ud were given place." fit to the woman herself second greatest difficulty will be to prevent the women from By IDA HUSTED HARPER. Nobody has such a grievance against the Rules distinction the old and This is the chief between the voting at the primaries.' suffrage organizations, the old, es- Committee as the Judiciary, and it should have fought former patient, persuasive, The two rival new woman; the The primary law of Illinois, which was forced by young but suf the aggressive, determined, tablished National Association, and the bled, and died to get that committee on woman latter p'ublic sentiment from an unwilling legislature, is de- will come victory. will come because the Congressional Union, occupy a half page in the frage. On the contrary, seventeen out of the twenty- - and to her It signed to keep people from the nominating elections. early workers prepared the way for her to enter and papers setting forth the difference one members stayed away from the caucus anddodged Every one votJng must declare his party connection, New York Sunday take possession, but she will never know it " their vote, so now. they must take what is coming to and'it thus destroying the secrecy the ballot, and con- in plans campaign. This condensed is simply of must their of all-da- doesn't matter. The victory will be for all women for them. The first thing was an y session to hear tinue voting this party ticket for two years. against the election of be large con- - that the former will work suffragists and "antis" argue for and against a na- all time and no book ever can enough to and Representa- tain the names those who helped make possible. Congressional candidates, Senators tional amendment. It has been forty-fiv- e years since of to it Feminine Voters in Chicago. Hail to the fortunate ones who shall speak the last tives, who are opposed to woman suffrage, irrespective these "bearings" began, and not one Congress has been The president of the State Suffrage Association word ! The policy of the union is slighted. prominent of their party affiliations. DliBois and many other leaders urged the women The greatest speeches ever delivered by women have The -- Primaries. to hold the Democratic party responsible for the fail- not to go to the polls and take on a party yoke, and been made before the Senate and House committees on It has been many a day since there was such a measures before Congress and to pointed out the disadvantages of allowing their politics ure of the suffrage this subject. They were grand orators in those early rejoicing in the camp of the as when to be known so soon. It was really surprising that so try to defeat enough Democratic candidates to destroy days: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Luc? the papers announced that only 50,000 women had voted many would be willing to take this view.' Of those the party's slender majority of seven or eight in the Stone, Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, Isabella IDA HOSTED HARPER. at the Chicago, primaries. They had been much cast who voted there were over three times as many Demo- big ma- Beecher Hooker, Zerelda G. Wallace, Lillie Devereux United States Senate. What it will do to the crats as Republicans, and nearly three times as many made quite Blake, Frances E. Willard, and many more. Compared a down when over 158000 had registered on the first day, jority in the Lower House is not dear. In pede of the political parties trying to be first to put of the latter as of Progressives and Socialists together, to masterly arguments the speeches now made as it was difficult to square this circumstance with their support of its position the leaders say that little can be their at suffrage plank in their platform. The women will but these figures prove nothing. hoped the favor of individual members, as hearings are. like the chattering of sparrows. Men lis- more than one Culebra cut before the days of slogan that women did not want the ballot thrust upon for from face In spite of a heavy snowstorm over 700 women situation. Pres- tened and admired, but it was all an academic discus- all the policy of the party will control the plain sailing, but ere long the way will be open for them, but when a few weeks later not a third of this served as judges and clerks, and hundreds more acted given the strongest possible sion with no voice from "constituents" to give it prac- through. their spirits ident Wilson certainly has ships to pass number really voted, soared aloft. as watchers. It was the most orderly and peaceful his declaration even tical value. 600,000 justification of this view in that "There are about women in Chicago," said primary election ever held in Chicago. Dispatches say States dare so much At the last hearing Tuesday a young woman stood The New Woman and the Old. Washington the President of the United not Mrs. William Cogswell, one of the official seven women were nominated for aldermen. The real personal opinion on woman suffrage until before the solemn and dignified Judiciary Committee interviews published in The Washing- board, "and only 50,000 votes were al- as express a The eleven cast It would test, of course, will come on election day, April 7, and and threatened them with the defeat of their party if suffragists authorized to do so by his party. ton Herald last Sunday on "Why I Am a Suffragist," most seem that the are already tired of the will then have a chance to prove the national president, is they did not heed the demands of the suffragists I Such mod- capital Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, were a striking example in the concrete of the their new toy. Great was made out of the large what, is the only justification for their existing as an is in a thing had never happened before, and why? Because registration predicted quoted as saying: "In America there 'no party ern spirit tliat is dominating this 'movement. The and it was that every one who organized body that the vast majority of women do power; legislation is not, as in England, decided by there was nothing to threaten them with. A party women, with one exception, belong to what may be registered would vote." not want to vote. fears nothing but votes, and up to the time of the last fran- fig- the dominant party," a statement so absurd that it called the third generation of workers for the There are about 400,000 women in Chicago, but The Supreme Court of Illinois has adjourned with- all Presidential election there were not enough votes of points seems impossible she could have made it With chise, and every one based her demand for it on her ures are one of the weak, of the "antis." There out any decision on the case that was taken up to it en- women in the United States to frigntenpoliticians. the Republican members voting in opposition it is right under a democracy; on the ground that it was is still another day for those to register who did not to test the constitutionality of the woman suffrage law, tirely possible for the Democrats in Congress to adopt When California enfranchised women in 1911, the she had demonstrated her equal capacity at care to vote at the primaries and it is probable that just; that and it docs not meet again until April 14.