THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 5

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

AMERICAN DEMANDS. 'By Electric Telegraph— Copybighi [Unk.ed Fresh Association.] Washington, March .'). The House Judiciary Committee received suffrage and unti-suffrago deputations demanding the constitutional amendment of the United States iaws and providing for feminine suffrage. Doctor Mary Walker, trousered and silk hatted, a noted feminist who is specially permitted to wear male garb, made a vigorous . plea for women's rights, threatening that the woman voters throughout the suffrage States would destroy the Democratic party unless -their demands were granted. The. Senate, later, debated the question, and Senator Clapp held that all the evil influences throughout the United States sought to prevent women getting votes, as ..no? would instantly right many glaring social wrongs.