MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS
KtittTci] on M-.'urn) i las* matter December l«, tttt, at the poxtofflce at Mainmort?. Maryland, under the Act of March 3, 1ITI.
VOL. I No. 51
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913
FIVE CENTS
DEDICATION.
To the poor women without
homes, to the little toilers who
should be in the schools and play-
grounds, to the white slaves in
their track- bondage, and to the
children who die, these pages are
dedicated! May every woman who
is not too idle to have a thought, or
too vain to have a soul, or too rich
in gold to have a heart, join in the
great struggle for women's free-
dom!
Purity. Liberty. Justice — these
we must work for!
THE LAMP OF SACRIFICE
The campaign for the Parade
Kuml i* nil. Plans are going tor-
ward ;mil the l-*iii;im-i- Committee
is receiving budgets from the active
committees, Hamls will cost 8nu
each, The il"»t> will cost 8fo >. and
all in all. the original budget >>i
$tjoo look* more and more insttm-
'itiu each .
Please semi all oomriliuti'ii!* lo
Mr^. Win. J. Drown, chairman of
the l-'iiiaiH-e Committee, s 17 North
( harles street.
.Mi-s ftorenre \ilKr....s .go
Miu \l. II. Iiivm...... ,aj
Sale lileraliii'i'. phta, cal-
endars, badges, etc*,, .s-'io
Sale of tea ami cakes*,. 5.60
Rental of headquarters,. -'.;»>
l're\iiiu-lv acknowledged I0.J4S.74
Total
.$10,^1^0.58
PETITIONS COMMITTEE
Ten more \0H111teers for tlie !*¦-
tition work have been secured. This
brings the total iiiuuher up lo \j\.
There are still 177 needed. If your
name is not ineluileil in the u.t. will
you not semi it in to Just (Invern-
nuni League Headquarters? All
that this Involves is the securing of
too nanus to the petition between
now and August 1st. This i- at the
rale of twenty signatures a month,
or live a week. This is very little
to ask of anyone, anil it means so
nwch to the eatl-e. Let Y< >t" K
name he included anion!,' neM
week's volunteers. The ten new
volunteers are as follow*: .Mr.
Harry I'airo. Mr-. Charles Tliur-
m.ui. Mrs. Henry M. Thomas. .Miss
\mv Mai-Mahon. Miss Margaret
Hepburn, Miss Atme Sloan. Miss
Caroline Etansemer, Mi-- R, K.
Smith, Mi- May tiillelh-y. Mr-. \.
I. (arr.
WORKING WOMEN'S
ASSOCIATION
' >n April 4th Mr. Mvlhen will
adilre-s the members of the Work
hie. Women's Association anil will
try to interest them to march in the
-May parade a- a body.
MRS. REGINALD FOSTER
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, an experienced social worker and now
OtgaVttfaVi i'ur »iic Just Government i.eaitue 01 Muryianu.
CONNECTK ITS EXPERIENCE
How the Democratic Party Happened
to Put in an Equal Suffrage Plank
in Ita Platform.
Shortly before the party conven-
tions met in Connecticut test -nm-
hht tn frame their platforms a
tending member of the Democratic
parly appeared before the Legis-
lative Committee- of tlie Woman
Suffrage Association and inform-
et| the members tliat lie thought it
might lie possible to hftVG a plank
providing for municipal suffrage
for women Inserted in the I >emo-
cratic platform it the women would
promise their stiport. After .1
somewhat stormy session the com-
mittee replied that not only would
they refuse to support such a plank,
lint that if a hill with such an in-
tent were introduced before the
Legislature ihey would appear tn
speak against it ami would oppose
it in every way. The Democratic
leader retorted that "half a loaf was
better than no Inaf at all." and that
if the women wished to ibow such
jKJor sense as to refuse suport to a
moderate measure they would have
to .nake Up their mind- to get
nothing at all. The suffragists re-
signed themselves to their fate.
knowing that their principles were
well founded, and at the close of the
convention they were rewarded hy
learning that the Democratic party
hail nailed down an equal suffrage
plank in ha platform providing for
fnlt suffrage for the women of Con-
nect lent
Let Maryland women profit hy
the experience of their -i-ters else-
where.
TALHOT COt NTY
Suffragists Make Plana for May
Pageant.
The Ju-i Franchise League held
its monthly meeting on .March 15th
at the league headquarters, Kaston,
M'l. The Petition Committee gave
a most favorahle report, Mrs. John
Macllale. the chairman, reporting
eighty-five name- on her petition.
Mr>. \. II. Pattison read a paper
on the " Cnanswcrable Argument ( ?>
That Women Do Nut Want to
Vote," and Mrs. p, |.. T ravers re-
futed the Kaston amis' statement
that only "Mormons and semi-civil-
ized countries and States had en-
franchised women "
Miss Alice Cox will have charge
of plans for the Talhot county lloat
for tlie pageant on May JlSt,
The league will endeavor to oh-
tain a speaker from the Anli-Suf-
frage Society to debate the question
of Equal Suffrage.
CECIL COUNTY
Plana Maturing for a Caravan Trip.
Next week Cecil comity will he-
gJn to hear of \ Otei for Women
from every town-hip. The cara-
van trip will start; meetings will he
planned for even possihlc "corner"
of the county. Cecil already has a
suffrage league, which was organ-
fared less than a Mar ago.
MASS-MEETINt. AT ANNAPOLIS
Men's League of Anne Arundel County
Start Active Campaign.
A mass-meeting called hy Mr. W.
II. Hart, the president of the Men's
League of Anne Arundel county, is
scheduled for Sunday. April 30tb,
at Colonial Theater. The Just t lov-
ernment League of Anne Arundel
county will co-operate ami it is ex-
pected that a large number of per-
sons will he reached, lite meeting
is to he on the lines of the one held
recently in the Academy of Music in
llaltimore ami the question of wo-
man suffrage in relation to morality
will he discussed. Congres-man
llohsoit. Senator Thomas of Colo-
rado. Mrs. Kent. Dr. Howard
Kelly and the Rev, J. < i. Mythen
will speak. Mr. Hart will preside
and tell of the particular problems
of the capital city. The Rev. Mr.
McComas. rector of St. Anne's
Church. Annapolis, will open the
meeting with prayer.
TORCH LK.HT CLUB
Appoints Parade Committee.
'I he Torch Light Cluh. a chit. ..f
young girls who voted to partici-
pate in the suffrage parade on May
Jl, has apointc'1 a committee to
arrange for costumes to he worn at
that time. Red and white will lie
the color scheme.
YOt'NG LADIES*
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
The Young Ladies' Benevolent
Society, with a mem her.ship of over
30O, has asked the secretary of the
Men's League !o address then, on
the subject of "Woman's Clvte Re-
sponsibility." The society is estab-
lished to care for the poor and
friendless girls who may come to
its knowledge and is especially a
beneficial organization. That many
of the aims for which it is estab-
lished' could best be attained by the
exercise of the ballot is obvious and
we hope to have this strong and able
nssociation affiliated with the Just
(lovernment League.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
"Many hands make light work."
The truth of this old adage is no-
where more apparent than in the
suffrage campaign. There is hardly
a precinct in llaltimore City that
eanot boast of having a nucleus of
Wtffragistl resident in it. If these
stilTragists would let their suffrage
work begin at home, right in their
own neighborhood, no one would
have to work very hard, and yet the
suffrage propaganda would go for-
ward incredibly fast.
There are twenty-four wards in
Kaliiniore City. In each ward there
are on an average twelve precincts;
in each precinct there arc from JJO
to 450 resident voters, A precinct
covers a very small extent of space
onl) about m or u blocks. The
work of a precinct captain is easy
and simple, hut at the same time as
essential as each stitch is in work-
done on a chain stitch machine. All
the precinct captain has to do is to
jet her precinct book containing an
alphabetical list of the suffragist
resident- in her precinct from her
ward captain, call these suffragists
together at a meeting at her own
or some one else's house am! then
detail the precinct out block hy
block to those who are willing to
lu-lp.
The ohjctt in precinct work is Id
convert a majority of the voters in
the precinct »0 suffrage, in other
words to carrc the OtCUKl for suf-
frage Candidates this year, and later
to carry it to the referendum when
the fate of the bill will he decided.
The methods to be pursued are to
place suffrage literature in all
shops, doctors', dentists' offices in
the precinct, to circulate the petit km
ami voters' pledge slips, to get new
subscriptions for 'fin. Sriiitvci:
NfiWS, ami ultimately to interview
all adult residents of the precinct
on the subject of suffrage. It is
not necessary to hold propaganda
meeting-. It is only necessary to
hold one business meeting in the
month for the purpose of hearing
reports and preparing a report to he
sent in to the ward chairman. !t is
also important to have one delegate
appointed to attend the ward meet-
ings, to take in the report.
The precinct work is really good
fun. it is stimulating and easy, and
when all is said and done it is as
fundamental to the success of the
suffrage movement as the boh- in
a bridge arc fundamental lo it* sta-
bility, fry it and then if you don't
like it. give it up. but at any rale, try
it for a month.
WASHINGTON COt NTY
Propaganda Leaflets Circulated.
llagcrstown ami vicinity js being
systematically canvassed with Alice
Stone l.lackwcll's "t objections Ah
swered." Every near-and-possible
suffragist has received a pamphlet.
( >ur teachers in the correspondence
school are also carrying 011 les-
sons, and by summer the [lagers-
town residents will be unable to
plead, "We have nut heard much
of suffrage."
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