Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — WANT HUSBANDS, NOT VOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WANT HUSBANDS, NOT VOTES

Mayor Gaynor Explains Militancy— Not Enough Men for All, Fair - ~ Sex Desperate. New York. —Women become militant suffragists because they have no husbands, and for that very reason there is no need of apprehension in this country of the bomb-hurling and window-smashing type of vote seeker, according to Mayor Gaynor. These and other sentiments on the subject of votes for women were expressed by mayor in an interview he gave at city hall. The mayor believes that if all the women make up their minds they want

to vote they will vote, and the men may as well understand it first as last. But the great weakness of the women’s cause is that they do hot all stand together. Some of the mayor’s trenchant remarks on the question are; “There are lots of men who should not have the vote. I know a dlstin-

guished man who said only damned fools vote, and he is a high state official. "I am willing to let all the women do all the voting and let the men tell them how to do it. Is there any suffragette in the world who would not give up her principles for a nice man? “In Great Britain there are about 1< 500,000 women who have no men and they are rather desperate. Aq soon a* every woman has a man, the women get to be very peaceful. I do not blame the women for getting mad. They ought to tear down all England. But voting will not get them husbands and they will be as bad off as ever. PT feel both jolly and bully about the subject of equal suffrage. Bpt we certainly do not want to bring any new source of discord into the household“The political result would be the same (with all women voting) in this country. »The women would say 'Let father attend to this matter; it bothers our little heads too much.' “The English suffragettes who are committing crimes would be locked up here. The men, whether policemen, judges or jurymen, do not like to hurt the women, and that is the weak point in the case.” The mayor said that he was quite willing to classify himself as a suffragist

Mayor Gaynor.