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Show I MAKES FIERCE ; fi ATTACK ON THE I SUFFRAGETTES H Miss Minnie Bronson Op- H poses Granting the Ballot lo H Women "in Speech Before I House Commit lee. ARGUMENT REFUTED BY BELVA LOCKWOOD Four Hundred of Ardent Supporters Sup-porters of Equal Rights March Up Capitol -Hill Bearing- Flowers. 'Br International Kctrs Service, r I tASHINGTOX, Jan. 31. A tcr-tonight tcr-tonight in tho majority conference con-ference room of the house of representatives bcttf"oen suffragists and anti-suffragists in the extended hearings before the house presidential elections committee. Two knights of anti-suffrage, .Miss Minnie Bronson and. Mrs. Aunic Hilcy JIale, crossed verbal swords with Belva Lockwood, the eighty-year-old apostle of Bufirape, and the Tlcv. Dr. Olytnpia Brown. Representative Richard Pear-eon Pear-eon Hobson, with his customary gallantry, gal-lantry, acted as second for the nuf-fragists, nuf-fragists, throwing many an entangling question in tho Tvnp of the antis, while nnother Alabama representative Heflin held the sponge aud towels of tho vallaut, if greatly outranked antis, who kept an anxious oyo. for an opon avenue of cacapo tho while thoy WJ talked. Charging that suffragism was but an Iannox of Socialism, Ubs Bronson ma do tho unqualified statement that two-thirds of the suffrago leaders were out and out Socialists and that the' had supported throe times a man for president -who bad advised riot aud bloodshed, if tho Los An&oles court convicted the mon on trial thorc. Storm of Denials. At this stall a porfect storm of "Obs" and "Ahs" and "That's not true," broke ovor the assemblage, but with flasbing cyo, IMiss Bronson proceeded pro-ceeded with her accusation?. "At tho big suffrage parade in Xow York city last spring,' sho continued, ''tho largest contingent in the parade was the Socialist ouc, with its full paraphernalia of red flags and other implements of destruction. Out in Ohio, the antis put a United States flag over their headquarters. Tho suffragists suf-fragists did not dare do this, becauso thoy had too manj Socialists in their ranks whom they knew would not hesitate hesi-tate to tear into shrods tho American flag." tiss Bronson, who is national secretary secre-tary of tho association opposed to woman wo-man suffrage, also stated that in hor opinion, suffrage, tho latest of the political po-litical diseases, would pass away as have Populism and free silverism. She also declared that in the Denver election elec-tion of 1010 thirty women workers worn found at ono polling placo buying votes for the. price of .1 picture hat or an automobile ride. - Rucker Answers Charge. ft Mips Bronson stated that thcie work- era obtained $25 and $30 a day for ) their services. Representative Rucker of Colorado, upon request of tho suffragists, suf-fragists, answered this charge by saying say-ing it was unqualifiedly untrue. m Miss Bronson criticised Miss .lane H Addams for entering actively into tho A work of the Bull Mooso party, ijj "She is one of tho great and good 'Y women of this country," sho said, a ft "But she thought only one man, Thco-W Thco-W dorc Roosevelt, could bring about tho 'ij good things sho desired, whilo Mrs. liar-!i? liar-!i? J riman of Xew York was suro .tho mil-jj mil-jj Ionium would come iii with Wilson, and a TE ccn 'arick Boswcll, whoso phi-if phi-if if lanthropics aro known tho country over, !? ! thought. William' Howard Taft was tho j.j 4 Tfal man to bear the banner to the ) Whilo house. Whilo these fiuc women J could bavo accomplished together out-, out-, j Vf Hdo of politics, they lost by individual 3" mi work, and the division of the women r voters of the country would be dotri-mental dotri-mental and inevitable. " Demands the Ballot. '-J?: Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the S0-ycar- old apostle of the suffrage, who twice. ,95; ran for president of the United States' on, a suffrage platform, feeble of form' ijljl and with voice cracked and brokcu t with ago, witli flashing eyes aiworod 5eA the. arguments of the miiis With hir iil bito hair and venerable appearance, fljl ihe held rapt attoution ns thv cried: i "Wo women want our rights; what tjJU and how wo will i.ole has nothing to i do with it. The ballot' is the element 'y of power in the republic and womoaj havo as much right lo it as men." I jjjj Sho r3f?ed a laugh by taking a jk!1 j of the suffragist and antis preaout. i Onlv Reprcpntntie Ifeflin of t lie coiu-;A. coiu-;A. mittoc admitted bo wait rb aotl. and -J ; only six portons in tbn entirr audi-il audi-il i nPC l'rfoSh0' tloir political faith to n bo the Mine. 'r.. Taptain IIoboa pointed out that one j i ardent suffragisi had voted with both 3 , hands. The vote was Inter oxpnngrd 1 1 ! frT! tho rrrnr-1. n hemg unauthorized. . .J v arm nf I 'in "-f frriju-f . -inrrhrd 1 1; tp fap-n' Wl f. - TTfirn-nc to Mit I ji boua off ko uiiiiing acri aripoarU nr I ! fore tho house committee on presidential elections and ploaded for tho passage of I ho bill introduced by Representativo French of Idaho, giving womon tho right to vote for representatives of congress. L'uliko their English sisters, the 6uffragists carried bouquets of flowors instead of bricks and thejr only wca-pons wca-pons wore persuasive smiles, oratory, pretty frocks and Parisian gowns. The afitto members of tho committee com-mittee graciously turned over the com-mittee com-mittee room to tho visitors and Rev. Olytnpia Brown of Racine, Wig., veu-orablo veu-orablo in age, gray haired and rosy cheeked, presided over tho meeting, aud led the battle for feminino equality. equali-ty. Representatives wore present from the nino "suffrago states," and thoy hold an cxporiouco meeting. Finally tho room becamu so crowded that tho suffragists had to sit on the floor, tailor tail-or fashion. But this did not daunt thorn. Mrs. Colby's Argument. Mrs. Claru B. Colby of Portland, Or., opened tho discussion. "Aro womou citizens7,J she cried in impassioned tones; "aro thoy pcoplo?" Tho constitution says that representatives representa-tives shall bo people of tho several states. JIow long must womnukind bo classed withvehilflron, idiots and criminals crimi-nals and have no voice, oven in the selection of tho men who make tho law? that govern them?" Congressman Prank Mondcll of Wyoming Wy-oming mado a humorous suggestion that stato legislators should consider tho disenfranchtsomont of bachelors. This sally brought a laugh from tho suffragists, especially tho young ones. Tho workers in the parade headquarters headquar-ters of tho suffragists took a da3' off frpm tho strenuous work of preparing for tho monster procession, and went to tho capitol In tho morning and 6pout tho afternoon trying on the now paraae costumes. The costumes arrived today. They avo a modified collcgo gown, and with them are worn natty Portia caps with bands of purple, green and white, tho suffrage color.". Each section or the pageant will display a particular color fcheme, and deep "blues, browns, purples aud reds predominate in the robes thus provided. |