Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-03 | Page 2 | Women Are Wrong, Shafroth Asserts

WOMEN ARE WRONG ASSERTS New Party Is Criticised Criticised for Throwing Problem in National Politics That the Womans Woman's party is making a serious mistake in endeavoring endeavoring en en- to inject the problem of suffrage for women into partisan partisan partisan par par- politics is the opinion of Senator John F. F of Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado one of the pioneers in the fight for national suffrage for women who arrived in Salt Lake this morning to participate in the national campaign in Utah Senator will speak twice in Utah Utah tonight tonight in Salt Lake and tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow in Ogden I am no not altogether a stranger in I Salt Lake Senator said at atthe atthe atthe the Newhouse hotel this morning rooming as asI I spoke here the first time Ume twenty- twenty one years ago when Bryan and bimetallism bimetallism bi bi- bi- bi were the issues of the cam cam- I spoke that time in the tab tab- The suffrage issue is an important important important tant question in America at this time I I believe that all Democratic women I will support Wilson at the p polls and I that all Republican women will support support support sup sup- port Hughes of the efforts of the Women's party to make the suffrage question a paramount issue for Hughes I have felt at all times since the subject was brought up by the Woman's Womans Womans Woman's Wom Worn ans an's party that the suffrage workers are making a most serious mistake in endeavoring to make suffrage a partisan issue They are surely hurting hurting hurt hurt- ing their own cause if they are earnest earnest earnest ear ear- nest In their advocacy of suffrage because the suffrage propaganda has made such remarkable progress without without without with with- out a partisan element in its con con- I am one who has always been in favor of equal suffrage for men and women In the first speech I delivered as a boy in school debating debating debating debat debat- ing society I took the affirmative side of the question of extension of the suffrage franchise to women I have advocated that course constantly since I favored the Susan B B. B Anthony An thony amendment in the lower house I An-I of congress ss five times in as many terms as I served in that body I believe believe be be- lieve the arguments for suffrage are I be-I unanswerable I