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EVENING LEDGER-PHIItADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, 'NOVEMBER 22, 1916
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MRS. MILLER QUITS
AS SUFFRAGE HEAD
Rnrnrispa Convention hv
IE Quitting State Chairman
ship of "Party
SUCCESSOR NOT NAMED
hn i I
Question Arises "Who Is Big
I mi unougn woman 10 xbko ino
$ Perplexing Position?"
By M'LISS
WIIiTJAJISPOnT. Pa., Nor. M. A
jjyrottehnlcitl opening to what promised to
it a placid first dny of tha forty-olghth
nnnl convention of the Pennsylvania
TVonuin RufTrnRO Association In session hers
was Riven this morning, when Mrs. John
O. Miller dropped a bomb In the. shops o(
her resignation from tha Stata chairman
ship of the Woman Suffrage party.
Instantly, tha suffragists realized that tha
feeling of rivalry botween the Hast and
tha West, Philadelphia nnd Pittsburgh, had
not abated.
It irlll be remembered that nt the con
ventton held at the Adelphla Hotel In
Philadelphia last year after the defeat of
Iho euffrago amendment, a spilt In the suf
frage ranks was threatened and a walkout
on the part of the Philadelphia contingent
narrowly averted because the suffragists of
the eastern part of tho State resented the
triumphant attitude of tho Allegheny
county delegates who carried their part of
the State. Mm. Miller is the leader of
Allegheny county. She Is credited with
being tho best money getter In the State
and one of the most astute politicians. She
has been dubbed the "Penrose of the or
sanitation."
Mcr resignation came as a complete sur
prise In a spirited speech which followed
shortly after tho annual report of the presi
dent, Mrs. Qeorga B. Orlady, which was
read by the fourth vice president, Mrs. E.
J Klcrnan, Mrs. Orlady being unable to
ttend tho convention on account of Illness.
CHALLENGE TO CIUTICS
Mrs. Miller gave press of business and
home duties as tho reason for her stepping
down. Her friends declare that her action
Is Instead a direct challenge to the criti
cism of Philadelphia and other suffragists
throughout tho State that bIio "wants to
own the wholo show."
it has been bruited nbout, they say, that
she holds too many oHIccs: that being
first vlco president. State chairman of
the Woman Suffrngo party nnd chairman
of Allegheny County cuts too much power
Into tho hands of ono woman. But now
that she has given them what it is thought
they wanted, the cry Is, "Who is a big
enough woman to be tho State chairman
of the Woman Suffrago party?"
The reply on all sides, like that In the
morality play. Is "nobody."
It Is a known fact that In the council of
lenders In which tho resignation of Mrs.
Miller wns discussed before tho opening of
the convention tho ofllco of Stato chairman
ship was offered to every member of the
Stato Hxccutivo Board and promptly re
fused by them. H'n a big Job and wants
a big woman. Because of the attempt
which will bo made on Thursday to revise
a by-law which. If the revision is passed
and It Is predicted that It will be, will weak
en the power of tho leagues and clubs and
centralize- tho full strength In the Woman's
Suffrago party the Job looms even bigger.
MALE ANTIS ASSAILED.
Wanted: A Stato chairman. As yet no
one has been found to be willing, or perhaps
able, to tako It. In her report of tho work
of the county conferences Mrs. Miller, pre
ceding the announcement of her resigna
tion, took a swat at tho malo antl who has
made the fcmala antl do hla dirty work.
She did not say that tho male antl was
synonymous with tho liquor Interests, but
tho feeling yns that she meant It.
The day of tho woman antl Is past, she
said, and In the next campaign she will
tako even less part In the antl work than
she did. and the man antl, who Is really be
hlnd the whole opposition, will hae to come
down from behind tho skirts of the women.
Two types of suffragists exist today, Mrs.
Miller points out They are the lifters and
the leaners. The lifters, she explained, are
the women who do a great deal of per
sonal work on finance, and they are the
women who know how to get along with
other women. They are not overcrltlcal and
they always work at least three times as
hard as any other suffragist In the county.
I "If wo had sixty-seven lifters In our
sixty-seven counties, tve could push the
mass of leaners on to victory, because votes
for women will be given because of the
work- of a comparatively small group and
the rest will get It without any effort or
work on their part," she said.
To facilitate the passage of thesuffrage
bill through tha 1917 Legislature, Mrs.
Miller declared that the Legislators were
being reminded of suffrage by numerous
Utters and Interviews, "We will go to the
117 Legislature with the most thorough
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STATE SUFFRAGE HEAD RESIGNS OFFICE
Mrs. John 0. Miller, of Pittsburgh, surprised tho delegates nt tho con
vention of tho Woman Suffrago Association, nt Willlamsport, by resign
ing as Stato chairman of tho Woman SufTrago party. Mrs. Miller, who
is known as "the Pcnroso of thp organization," is seen with her two
children. Tho resignation is expected to reopen tho breach that is sn'ul
to exist between tho eastern and western parts of tho State.
poll that we havo ever had In Pennsylvania
and our mombers will go to Congress more
thoroughly lined up Uian they have ever
been before," she ndded.
Tho suffragists wero welcomed by Mayor
Jonas Pl.iher and Miss Henrietta Baldy
Lyon, of Lycoming County; Miss M. Carey
Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr, respond
ed. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw arrUed last
night
SUFFRAOE CAUSE BRAVELY
AWAITS HOUR OF VICTORY;
MRS. ORLADY'S ADDRESS READ
WILLTAMSPOriT. Pa., Nov. 22. The
salvation of the cause of woman's suffrage
lies In a man, according to the predictions
made today In tho address written by Mrs
flcorge B. Orlady. president of tho Penn
sylvania Woman Suffrage Association, and
read at the opening session by Mrs. E K
Klcrman, fourth lco president of tho or
ganlzallon Mrs Orlady was dctalnod on
account of Illness nnd could not be present
at the convention which opened this morn
Ing In tho Y M C. A. Auditorium.
Mrs. Orlntly In her messago to the dele
gates said that a great American who Is
to be will arlso nnd espouse tho cause of
womankind, making It tho fundamental
principle of Americanism.
"I then give ou this thought nnd belief,
Mrs. Klcrman rend from Mrs Orlady's
paper, "because that thing which we so
much desire for our completion enfran
chisement can only ho given us by man,
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come when man will be no longer content for
his leader and hla parly merely to Indorse
or havo tho opportunity himself to vote fa
vorably upon the question of woman suf
frago: the time will come. And tmrsl come,
when a great man, a Lincoln, a Washington
or a Jefferson, will rise rrom tno ranks of
men nnd not only express his belief In th
fundamental principle of Americanism for
which wo have striven, but will lead the
way so forcibly that men at large will rise,
combine and overthrow the leaser but pow
erfully organised part of ouf cltlsenry,
which strives by derlotn and sometime by
despicable nnd debased methods to keep
from us our rightful heritage of privilege
and responsibility,"
ULTIMATE TIUUMPK FOnHSttEN'
The address continued:
"Inevitably, the time will come when
great men, joining force or Inspiring nnd
dominating a great number of our best
men, will force men to endow us with nit
that which will contribute toward making
us the dim valuable cltliens possible.
"Already It Is undoubtedly probable that
a largo majority of th best men In our
country bclleto In the Justice of our de
mands, but until there springs the great
Inspired leader to unify tho thought of the
Individuals In the mass of men, that other
always well-orgnnlted forco, which Is op
posed to nil legitimate progress nnd uplift,
wilt hae Us way,
"It U truly remarkable, all things con
sidered, If you think of It, that without ever
having had a largo force of men In the field
openly fighting for this fundamental Amorl
canlsm, t hat a secured ns much as we
hae. It Is truly remarkable, In view of
the unquestioned Justice of our demands,
that thero has not already sprung from men
a man to innko men see nnd reallzo what
they should do to add to this activity. Ile
member always that those forces which pro
fess to, nnd largely do, mirror nnd retted
sentiment In their various communities tho
newspapors for years In dominant num
bers have espoused our cause,
"Is It not strange then, that In view of
the fact that the best men for years havo
announced their conviction nnd belief that
ours Is a righteous effort, organized oppo
sition does not realize that It cannot much
longer oppose this basically righteous move
mentT And is It not p d commentary
Uon the whole situation that our cause, be
ing so righteous, long ago has not oxer
thrown tho unrighteous?
"Undoubtedly, tho great pirty of the fu
ture, tho great political party, will bo that
pnrty wlilcL., rcelng fav. and clear through
tho ejes of Us leaders, will reallzo that
there Is no ono causo In which so many
Individuals Individual Americans re so
strongly Interested as In the enfranchise
ment of women.
"Stop for a moment nnd consider the
progress of the woman suffrage cause, and
what do you glean from the fact that the
wentern man almost na n unit has now come
to the point where he has enfranchised the
women of his western section of the coun
try?
"Did he do It because he did not be
lieve In their equal Intelligence, because he
did not have faith In their Integrity, be
tauso he did not desire them to be laboring
at his side at the polls for a better west
r for a west kept clean? Bather did he
not endow Ihe women of his land with the
franchise because he believed In them
And remember also that having granted
this boon to women, he never hss believed
It Just or necessary to take It away from
her Then consider the position, by com
parison. In which tho men of the east are
placed I"
Mrs. Orlady then quoted the constitution
of the United Stales from the section
which soya, "To promote n mora perfect
Unlonj to establish Justice; to Insure do
mesllo tranquillity to promote tho general
wolfaro and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity," nnd then
compared the actions of Canada to those
granting suffrage to the women of the
United States. She oen predicted that as
a result of the wbrk wowen of Europe have
done during the world wnr, It Is likely that
women across the Atlantlo will be en
franchised before women In some parts of
tho United States aro granted suffrage.
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