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Show IANTIS PROTEST AGAINST EQUAL .SUFFRAGE PLAN I Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New Ij York Heads Delegation of ! Women Who Appear Be- I fore House Committee. SUFFRAGISTS WILL MAKE REPLY TODAY Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mc-j Mc-j Culloch to Sum Up the I J Case; Mrs. Pankhurst Again Arrested. WASHINGTON, Dec. -J. Women op- posed to equal sufirago had their in- 5 nings today before tno houso commit- J tee on rules to protest against the rcs- 9 olution championed by tue woman suf-;' suf-;' frnglsts which would "create a eulfrngo j, standing committeo in the houso of rep- !j resentatives. Scores ol women from !i arious paris of tho country, mar- 1 sbalod by Mrs. Arthur Dodge of New Jj York, arncnled to tho committee not to grant the suffragists' ploa. Tomorrow ',' tho suff moists will bo given an oppor- tunity to answer the attack Mrs. Oath-i Oath-i erino Waugh McCulloch of Chicago hav- ! mc been chosen to sum up tho case, r Though tho nnti-suffrngo women oc- i: cupicd most of the day, their arguments I wcro closed bv a man, Evorott P. I Wheoler of New York, ronrcsentinc I tho Man Suffrage association, who I founded tho battle cry against tho suf- i fragists. Holding aloft tho picture of i! Dr. Howard Shaw, president of tho Nn- tional American association for woman suffrage, Mr. Wheeler said: 1 'Wnon I saw this perBon hero yes- I' terday shako her clenched fist and do claro"'Wo demand our rights,' I said to ! myself, 'Clenched fists mean fight.' : Tho manhood of this nation has been trained to respect and revero womanhood woman-hood and J claim that for Amorican manhood todav, but if wo aro challenged chal-lenged to figfit this movement thero will be blows to give as well as blows to lake." i Mr. Wheeler paid a tributo to Miss Jano Addams, who nddrcssod tho committee com-mittee yesterday on bohalf of equal suffrage and declared it was "nn ill day for the nation when Jano Addams diverted her attontion from philanthropy philanthro-py to suffrage." MRS. ARTHUR M. DODGE, leader of the anti-suffragists, who appeared ap-peared before the house committee com-mittee on rules to prolest against giving women the right to vote. |