56 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
‘GIFT MONTH 
v4 ‘purine AUGUST any person making a cash purchase 
of $2. may have free a 25c. Necktie; or, any person 
0c. Cap. 
* 
inaking a $4. cash purchase may have Jee a 50c Tie or a 
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Bee F. W. BELL’S BEACH ST. STORE, MANCHESTER 
SAY ¥ SUFFRAGISTS FEARED 
CLUB V OTE 
eabne to a statem issued by of- 
ficers of the State Federation of Wo- 
men’s 
munication has been issued: by Mrs. 
Bertrand E. Taylor, Miss Edith, Mel- 
vin and Mrs. William Lowell” Put- 
nam. 
They charge that the meeting was 
an effort of machine suffragists t» 
capture at a master stroke the male 
vote in November by trying to make 
the men believe the majority of the 
women want ‘to. vote. They also 
characterize the meeting as being the 
best «of arguments «against woman 
suffrage, ~The letter reads: ~ 
Dear Sir: Four of the seven mem- 
bers of the council of the Massachu- 
setts Federation of Women’s Clubs 
have signed a circular letter regard- 
ing the recent annual meeting, held at 
Marion, which, although it lacks the 
signatures of the. three other mem- 
bers of the council, nevertheless. re- 
quires an answer. 
It is with great regret that. we learn 
that we were misinformed with re- 
gard to the date on which the notice 
of the suffrage resolution “Was re- 
ceived by the clubs: We had under- 
stood that it was received on June 1, 
but after cateful.inquiry ' we learn 
that some of hie wetiiiss received the 
notice during the last week in May— 
some of them’ a few days earlier— 
and some ‘not’ ate all. AY. 
By* the: -trme--this:-noti¢e’ was re- 
ceived the -clubs had held their last 
meetings for the year—the number 
of clubs which had not done’so is so 
small as to be insignificant as far as 
the principle involved is concerned. 
The statement made in the Circular, 
‘The object of the federation as de- 
fined in the constitution, ‘To secure 
more thorough acquaintance,.among 
Women’s clubs of Massachusetts and 
to unify their work along:education- 
al, sociological and. humanitarian 
Clubs, in, syehicht the declaration. 
was made that the ‘indorsement ofthe 
suffrage movement_at the federation’s| 
recent annual meeting: in> Mation was: 
a fair expression of opinion,».a*com-, 
humanitarian”’ 
perfunctory reading of reports was 
consideration at the? * 
.of ‘accredited delegates” 
‘be proved, for at least one delegate: 
lines’,”’ is entirely misleading, 
Art.<3,>-pec.. 7 “defines “the: kind sof 
work to be undertaken as follows: 
“Any woman’s club in Massachusetts 
which is 
-constitution or by-laws with: objects 
unsectarian and non-partisan is eligi- 
ble to membership in the Federation.” 
(The* italics are ours.) It is more- 
over difficult, according to their own 
limited quotation, to see how ,they ex- 
pect to “unify” the work of the Fed- 
eration by introducing a 
about which the feeling ran so high 
that no “educational, sociological and 
work beyond 
given.a moment’s 
annual meeting. 
That the convention was made: up. 
remailis ‘oO 
present and voting at the convention 
still has in her pocket her ticket as 
delegate not - countersigned by-— the 
credentials committee and not ask—4d 
for at the door. 
Fo ACK 
This meeting was an effort on the 
part of the machine suffragists to 
capture, at a master stroke, the ma!e: 
vote in November by trying to make 
men believe that majority.of women 
was the best argument 
state; it was:evident that the ‘suffrag- 
ists were afraid of the vote of the 
club women if they were fairly noti- 
fed, just as they were afraid of the 
women’s vote at. the: polls and -killed’ 
cdilled | for. a: 
referendum af the. women as to, their 
the Drury. bill . which 
“The - ‘attempt 
calling. this 
the 
mo- 
wishes’ in’ the matter: 
tc befog .the~ issue by 
referendum a “straw vote” is 
merest nonsense—the actuating 
tive in both cases was’ fear. 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES. 
The Manchester Equal 
Thursday .of this week, at °Mrs. 
Leach’s new Tea Room. Several of 
the summer colony were present, ani 
for 
regularly organized with 
subject 
the: 
Suffrage 
League held a morning meeting on* 
August 6,191. 
among the new members. enrolled 
were Mrs. Frederick Dumaine, Mrs. 
5S. V. R. Crosby, Miss Mary Stone 
and others. Mrs. Leach’s new ‘Tea- 
House was much admired, and con- 
siderable business’ was transacted, 
-which included plans for the arrival 
of the state Campaign Canvassers on 
August 24th, the meeting at Mrs. 
Amory Eliot’s on Sept. 3 (when 
Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale- will 
speak) and other plans. The Presi- 
dent spoke with sorrow and regret of 
the sad death of Mrs. R. H. Dans, 
who was a Suffragist, and in this con- 
nection also spoke of the late Mrs. 
Fields. Both of these rare women 
are a great loss to Manchester, to the 
Woman’s Cause and to the world. 
And it is a significant fact that wo- 
men of such fine quality and wide 
and deep sympathies as Mrs. Fie‘ds. 
and Mrs. Dana are almost inevitably 
Suffragists. Together with their loss 
we must feel their inspiration. 
The recent meeting of women in 
the Chapel at Manchester was held in 
a friendly “get together” spirit and in 
the interest of a better understanding 
here of the: meaning of the Woman 
~Movement (which includes the wo- 
men’s clubs). The Anti-Suffragists 
—or rather the one Anti who was 
‘present— tried to introduce the spirit 
of controversy with aggressive ques- 
tions which were not much to the 
point; but the tact and dignity of 
Mrs. Gilson’s replies (for she did 
reply) averted all unpleasantness. The 
question about the Drury Bill (the 
attempt to have a straw vote instead 
of a real vote on the Suffrage Amend- 
nent) has been answered many times 
and is an old story. The Antis not 
only have the “spirit of Split,” as 
' someone has called it, but they are 
want to vote, but the meeting itself: 
against Wwo-, 
man suffrage ever’ presented in this’ 
clinging to the past and therefore are 
endlessly harping on matters which 
have passed into history. But the 
word now, as of old, is—“Tell the 
Israelites to go forward.” We like 
to think that we Americans are the 
‘chosen people” of this day, and the 
Suffragists are helping the country 
to go forward. It is true that the wo- 
men of Manchester, as of other smail 
towns, are behind-hand in the Woman 
Movement—or partly so. But there is 
a. steadily growing group of thinking 
women here. And in time Manches- 
ter will swing into line with the rest 
of the state, even as Massachusetts 
will swing into line with the rest of 
the United States—and the whole 
world will at last swing into line with 
our country in the causes of Peace 
and Progress, Freedom and Democ- 
racy. 
—L.:R. 3S. 
