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Show ROUNDLY DENOUNCES " THE WOH'S PARTY Mrs. Susan W. Fitz Gerald Makes Spirited Address at Salt Lake Theater. WILSON GIVEN PRAISE Says Error Is Being Made by Opposing Re-election of President. Because of its militant methods and partisan political activities, the Woman's party was denounced as suffrage's greatest great-est fee by Mrs. Suyan W. Fitz Gerald of Boston, secretary of the executive council coun-cil of the National Woman's Suffrage association, as-sociation, in a stirring address last night nt a Democratic-Progressive rally at the Salt l.al theater. The declaration came as a climax to a discussion of the activities of suffrage workers, and way received with a storm of applause by a mixed audience of approximately ap-proximately 1500 persons. "Vou recently received an appeal from unenfranchised women of the east,"' the speaker said, "and I wish to inform you that the appeal did not come from the majority of the unenfranchised women of the east. It came from a very small majority of unrepresentative women of the east. "I now hrinfT you a message from the National Woman's Suffrage association, whose membership numbers hundreds of thousands of representative women, and say that the greatest good you can do us is to exercise your right of citizenship citizen-ship and cast your ballot on the seventh of November as your conscience dictates. 1 have no ill-feeltng toward the members of the Woman's parly, but the one unalterable un-alterable principle of woman's suffrage is non -partisanship." Classed as Militant. The policy of holding the party in power responsible for failure of the passage of the suffrage amendment was classed as militant and declared to be of English origin. Mrs. Fitz Gerald pointed out that the election of Charles K. Hushes gave no promise of the adoption of the amendment, amend-ment, and declared that it could not be accomplished until thosR same women who urge the election of Mr. Hughes could bring about favorable action on the question ques-tion in the individual states. '"Whenever the women fight one party they fight forty-eight state legislatures a (no, and they block and endanger the suffrage cause."' she exclaimed. .' "Now the Woman's party proposed to punish the Jemocratic party. If the Republican party fails to bring about the adoption of the a mend men t it must be punished. The 1 lemocrats are already a ligned against suffrage under this arrangement and then nil we have left to support the cause Is t he Socialist party, and its one or two members of congress can scarcely be reckoned reck-oned as a two-thirds majority. The Woman's party proposes to punish the Democratic party for its failure to adopt the amendment in four years, but nothing has been said about punishing the Republican Repub-lican party for its forty years of opposition opposi-tion to the same cause. Praises Democrats. "And let me say here that all progress made by woman suffrage in America has been made under Democratic administra- ; lions. The action of the Woman's party! In the present campaign is the worst form ! of political treachery. Do theso women believe for a moment that Henry Cabot Dodgo, Boies Penrose, Ellhu Root, W. Hurray Crane and William K. Borah wllll work for the passage of the suffrage amendment? "If they do, will they please tell us why the women on the Hughes campaign special were given Implicit Instructions to make no mention of stiff rape in the eastern states? Out here, of course. whre the women enjoy suffrage, it is not an issue and is like so many of the. Republican Re-publican campaign arguments. Why did the state conventions of the Republican party in Massac hueel ts, New York and Pennsylvania, and other eastern states fail to indorse the Republican national platform, which provides only for action on suffrage by states? "Mr. Hughes has not said that he was in favor of tbe suffrage amendment. In fact, he has not said anything definite except when his manager deserted him temporarily at loulsville recently and he told a questioner that had he been president presi-dent he would have severed diplomatic relatione with Germany when the l,usi-tanla l,usi-tanla was tunk. He hat indicated that he js willing to accept suffrage if compelled com-pelled to do fo. because the women seem bent on having it. President Wilson has faid lie has told the women of the countrythat coun-trythat he believes in suffrage, hut only through action of the individual states. Tribute to Wilson. "But there are other reasons why Woodrow Wilson should be elected other than that lie is favorable to woman suffrage. suf-frage. First of all, lie Is a true democrat, demo-crat, a democrat in spirit I mean, and the first since the days of Lincoln. This democracy was illustrated when he made hie inaugural speech March 4, 1913. The Hpeakers platform was alive with the wealth and official representatives of the land. Below the masses were held back by armed troops. What did the president presi-dent do? He sent the troops away, : turned his back upon the aristocracy on the platform and delivered his speech to the people. "The achievement of the Democratic administration in four years are too many to be discussed In one evening. Out of consideration to campaign speakers, it should have scattered them out over thirty or forty years, and then it would have surpassed the Republican record. But all the leeislat ion has been toward the development of the country' and for the good of the masses and not the I classes. "Mr. Hughes lias criticised everything about President Wilson but his cuff buttons, but-tons, and if the press will only carry this information I am sure he will enter a criticism crit-icism of them. Nothing that be has said lias been in the nature of construction; everything has been in the direction ot destruction. He would have severed diplomatic diplo-matic relations with Germany when the litisitania went down and thereby removed all possibilities for stopping the submarine subma-rine warfrvrc and of right to .discuss the subject. War, under such a policy, would have been inevitable." Telegram From Wilson. Prior to the introduction of Mrs. Fitz Gerald, the following teregram from President Pres-ident Wilson to Mrs. Tom D. Pitt, secretary sec-retary of the Women's Wilson league, was read to a standing audience and received with tremendous applause: .May T not through you express my' grefit interest in what the Democratic-Progressive Democratic-Progressive women of Utah are doing and my hope that through them the real meaning and significance of the present campaign may be evident to all the people of Utah. I am sure that the critical nature of the choice about to be made by the nation is becoming be-coming more and more generally understood. un-derstood. Mrs. Franklin S. Richards acted as chairman of the meeting and introduced Mrs. P. Basil Clarke, a native of Kentucky Ken-tucky and recently of Belgium, and Mrs. Lout Palmer Wber of Suit Ike, who attacked vigorously the Woman's party and made eloquent appeals for the reelection re-election of Woodrow Wilson. The appeal made by Mrs. Clarke was at once humorous and pathetic. As a southerner, she refuted the assertions of the members of the Woman's party that tlie women of the south favored universal suffrage, and then as a patriotic American Ameri-can she praised the peace policies of the president and told of the horrors of war-as war-as witnessed In Belgium. Her recital of the conditions in Belgium was a masterpiece of pathetic eloquence j and brought tears to the eyes of more j than half her hearers. The notes of President Wilson to Germany she declared-were declared-were considered by the diplomats of Eu- j rope as masterpieces of diplomacy. I "Those who say there was never danger I of war state an untruth," she cried vehe- I menlty. "When we received word in Bel- I Eflum that the Lusltania had gone down j the German officers in Belpium declared i war was inevitable. When the second I note came war still was considered inevitable, inevi-table, and my two sons and myself prepared pre-pared to dedicate ourselves to the cause of America. And then came the capitulation capitula-tion of the German diplomats ami all Kurope lauded the work of President Wilson as the greatest pie-e of diplomacy ever accomplished by an American president." presi-dent." Mrs. Weber, with keen sarcasm and pointed humor, attacked the arguments of Woman's party speakers. She did not depend de-pend upon mere assertions, but read excerpts ex-cerpts from records, congressional and otherwise, to refute the charges made by Woman's party workers a gainst President Wilson and the Democratic administration. ad-ministration. Mrs. Fitz Gerald will -be the principal speaker at the bi-weekly luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson clubs at the Newhouse hotel at noon today. Immediately h fter the luncheon she will leave for American Fork, where she is scheduled to speak this afternoon. Tonight she will be the principal prin-cipal speaker at the Wilson day celebration celebra-tion at Provo, and tomorrow she will leave for Nevada. . j |