Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — VULGARITY BEST SUFFRAGE HELP [ARTICLE]

VULGARITY BEST SUFFRAGE HELP

Mix Mary Winsor, Speaker at LOUDNESS ALSO IS SU66ESTED <2* . Mrs, FltXflomld of Boston jiays Camous of Personal Dignity—Mrs. Seton More Modmmto. % 'W ■ €'% I ft /ft 'f'% \tf i “UhfviUp, W—vulgar, methods were urged on delepCQr * J Tothe* American. Woman's Suffrage Association convention here by Mary Winsor of Philadelphia. “Whatever you do, * fehe advlsmp earnestly, “don’t be tiresome. Better be vulgar." . - When the delegates laughed she reiterated the advice, safrafl “Yes, Indeed, this Is a vulgar age. Be loud, be yellow, be anything to be picturesque. Better go to extremes than to bore people. It is a fool question to ask women, ‘Do yOu want to voteT’ When I want a tyoman to vote I aSk her, ‘Don’t you wish w| could decide whether we Could have that $50,000. playground‘ rather than the men?" r ! y | The consensus of opinion expressed by the speakers was that the suffragists must “get the uninterested women interested in suffrage by, indirect means.” “A woman listens first with her heart, then with her head,” said Charity Dye of Indianapolis. Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, wife of Ernest Thompson rfeton of Connecticut, who followed Miss Winsor on the platform, was more moderate in suggesting ways and means, while Mrs. Stotah W. Fitzgerald of Boston put hatoelf Into the militant class when she cautioned the delegates they must not be “too conscious of personal dignity” If they would succeed. Dropping suffrage literature from balloons worked well in Massachusetts, she said, and the pamphlets-un-doubtedly attracted more attention “than if they had come less directly from above. ” . “Just as soon as you have a good excuse,” she urged, “get into a political campaign." Then she told how they had made this excuse by prevailing on the Democratic convention to mention “votes for women” In Its platform. “Interest the indifferent women in some reform first of all if you want to get them to vote,” said Kate M. Gordon of New Orleans. “I believe when we can get the white slave problem and the child labor problem before the women we can get thousands of them Interested In suffrage. An appeal through such questions Is better than a quite appeal for suffrage." . *