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Some of them had whole pages of signatures written in the same hand and some had names only, no addresses. The suffragists copied some of these petitions after they were filed in Columbus and although the time was short brought suit to prove them fraudulent in six counties. In four the court ordered all but a few names thrown out.
"They take us for peddlers," said Amy. A little later a small boy, who had been playing horse in front of his house, scuttled back toward the kitchen, crying out: "Ma ma! Come an' see the suffragists!" "Oh, mercy!" exclaimed Betty. "What will we be taken for next?"
"I mean for us all," Sue answered. "Even for a person like me!" Sue was beautiful just then her cheeks aglow, her features tense, a radiant eagerness in her eyes. "I've felt it, oh so long," she said. "It's gone all through my suffrage work through every speech that I have made that the suffragists need the working girls and ought to help them win their strikes!" "And what do you think, Joe?"
The Republican State convention met in Dover April 20 and the Equal Suffrage Association made one of the most remarkable demonstrations the State had ever seen. Every road was ablaze with decorated automobiles and hundreds of suffragists arrived on every train. They marched and they talked and in themselves they constituted the best argument that could be made for ratification.
On January 21, before the Revised Statutes Committee of the House, all of the Representatives and many of the Senators, a hearing was given to the suffragists. The speakers were Mrs. Cranston, Miss Leila Aaron of Dover, Miss Vernon and Mrs. Hilles, whose argument was nearly flawless.
They were received at the Executive Mansion on the 31st and "General Rosalie" gave the message in behalf of the suffragists of New York State. The newly-elected Governor answered: "All my life I have believed in the right of women to exercise the franchise with men as a matter of justice.
If it had, it would have a much higher opinion of its periodicals and newspapers. At this juncture, Rudyard Kipling unconsciously came into the very centre of the suffragists' maelstrom of attack when he sent Bok his famous poem: "The Female of the Species."
"Have some gum, George?" he inquired, inserting a large piece in his own mouth. He chewed rhythmically for a space. George waited. He knew that chewing gum was not the ultimate object of Mr. Doolittle's visit. "Don't women beat the Dutch?" he inquired at last. "Yes sir, mister; they do!" "What's up now?" George inquired. "The suffragists again?" "Nope; not on the face of it they ain't.
And the Suffragists themselves consent to be governed every time they accept the protection of the law or invoke it against a debtor; for they thereby acknowledge its proper application to themselves if the case were reversed. The second count in the list of political grievances runs: "He has compelled her to submit to laws in the formation of which she had no voice."
The Suffragists did not decry man's "monopoly" of the honorable and profitable but severe professions of civil engineering, seamanship, mining engineering, lighthouse keeping and inspecting, signal service, military and naval duty, and the like. These, and the drudgery of the world's business and commerce, man was welcome to keep.
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