At this time, too, representation was based on taxation, and the suffragist was he who paid a tax to the State.
There was little opportunity for the arts of the demagogue; and the elevation of sentiment in the suffragistmade him despise the man, however superior his talents, who would attempt them.
Each candidate, upon the day of election, took his seat upon the bench of the judge in the county court-house, and the suffragist appeared at the bar, demanding to exercise his privilege in the choice of his representative.
The suffragist was the landed proprietor, and in every county where his possessions were this right attached.
My dear Mr. O'Brien: I wish you would advise me as soon as you conveniently can, what will be done with the suffragist cases now pending against Whittaker and Reams in the United States District Court at Alexandria.
She said of a letter sent to one of the suffragist pickets now in the workhouse, "They told her to keep her eyes open and notice everything.
I have had charge of all the suffragist prisoners who have been there.
This happened in one instance to the suffrage prisoners who were protesting against the warden's forcibly taking a suffragist from the workhouse without telling her or her comrades whither she was being taken.
Colonel Thompson had been a suffragist all his life, but he now became actively identified with the work for the national amendment.
Waving a copy of the Suffragist in the air, Senator Pittman began his attempt to shift responsibility to the Republican side, for the critical condition of the amendment.
There are times in which the tactics used in the pursuit of political recognition may result in a technical violation of the law for which imprisonment ensues, as witness the suffragist cases in Washington .
A suffragist of long standing, he nevertheless hated our militant tactics, for he knew we were winning and the Administration was losing.
She was the first suffragist in America to be "militant" enough to wage a campaign against office-seekers on the issue of woman suffrage.
Soon after Miss Paul came to Washington in 1913, ;she went to call on a suffragist in that city to ask her to donate ;some funds toward the rent of headquarters in the Capital.
Let not the Imperialist accept a colony because it is there, nor the Suffragist seize a vote because it is lying about, nor the Socialist buy up an industry merely because it is for sale.
Off and on, I should say at least fifty Colorado women have tried to make a suffragist of me.
No, the general idea people have of the suffragist is altogether a wrong one and it is high time that at least the educated and intelligent correct their views where they are based on prejudices and ideas belonging to the past.
Being a suffragist does not mean being antagonistic to the family duties.
The suffragist is a true product of our era of liberty.
I answered gladly, being a militant suffragist of many and strenuous experiences that would not generally be called either nice or quiet.
Mounted police were summoned to overawe the crowd, which by this time whether suffragist and female, or neutral, non-committal and male, was giving the police on foot a very nasty time.
Where the Suffragist was poor he asked no fee, or a small fee was paid by some Suffragist Association.
She isn't about to be executed for having deceived the Benchers of the Inner Temple in 1905; she is only in prison for a suffragist offence).
Two years later, for another Suffragist offence (setting fire to a pillar box after giving warning of her intention) she went to prison for six months.
On Black Friday, November 18th, Vivie was present at the meeting in Caxton Hall when Mrs. Pankhurst explained the position to the Suffragist women assembled there.
He was aware of her Suffragist activities and guessed she might want it occasionally for eluding the police on trips abroad.
A few days afterwards followed the amnesty to Suffragist prisoners.
There was a simmering in the Suffragist ranks rather than any alarming explosion.
Lady Fraser was, indeed, an early type of Suffragist and also wrote some poetry which was far from bad.
A Suffragist as valuable as Poppy should not marry.
To the party politician, hungry for the prizes that suit his soul or stomach, such an assumption is mere foolish pedantry; and the ardent suffragist will have little more to say to it.
Now the woman suffragist in Germany differs from the American suffragist in that she is always a member of a political party.
Usually thesuffragist is a member of the Social Democratic Party, allied to the International Socialist Party.
She is a suffragist because she is a Socialist, because woman suffrage, and, indeed, the full equalization of the laws governing men and women are a part of the Socialist platform in every country in the world.
The iron-faced suffragist propagandist, if she gets a man at all, must get one wholly without sentimental experience.
The mere statement of the current suffragist platform, with its long list of quack sure-cures for all the sorrows of the world, is enough to make them smile sadly.
I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.
My sister, who was a most ardent suffragist and a valued worker in the Women's Social and Political Union, was one of the women who was shockingly maltreated in Parliament Square on Black Friday.
Just a week later Mr. Asquith was questioned in the House of Commons by a slightly alarmed anti-suffragist member.
Seeing their temper, I felt that the moment had come for a demonstration such as no old-fashioned suffragist had ever attempted.
It was therefore ridiculous for any Suffragist to assert that there had been any breach of constitutional propriety on the part of the King in refusing, on the advice of the Home Secretary to receive the deputation.
Although Lord Robert Cecil deemed it unjust as well as futile for Suffragist Members to withhold their support from the woman suffrage movement on account of militancy he himself was in favor of deportation for Suffragettes.
Besides the suffragist troubles, there had been a host of fresh manifestations of the general Labour unrest.
The war and the land and suffragist agitation affected the whole country alike, though no general scheme of agrarian reform for Scotland was yet put forth by semi-official Liberalism.
The Bishop of Oxford also strongly supported the Bill, eulogising the suffragist women.
The crowds on the route were greater than usual, and the occasion was marked by no untoward incident, suffragist or otherwise.
Though this fresh extension of the Labour unrest was happily checked, the Suffragist militancy which was gradually estranging public sympathy did not abate.
Damage was done a week later in Birmingham Cathedral; the interior was daubed with white paint, suffragist mottoes were displayed, and a stained glass, window injured.
Suffragist appeal to the King at his Court by Miss Mary Blomfield, granddaughter of a former Bishop of London.
Repudiating the suggestion that the suffragist members should postpone their efforts till militancy had ceased, he strongly advocated deportation, and welcomed the design attributed to the Government to attack the militants' funds.
Meanwhile the Labour andsuffragist disturbances continued to promise fresh complications.
And yet, without a word of contradiction from those who know better, arguments and protests galore have been fabricated on thesuffragist side, based solely on this impudently false assumption.
The non-militant woman suffragist is always careful never to appear an anti-militant.
Another suffragist lie which is invariably allowed to pass muster by default, save for an occasional protest by the present writer, is the assumption that the English law draws a distinction as regards prison treatment, etc.
A suffragist will call out her name while in a cell, and another one who knows her will answer, giving her name in return, and a conversation will then be carried on between the two.
Lippincott) was introduced by Miss Anthony as a suffragistof thirty years' standing.
As the Speaker was a staunch suffragist he did so.
The two most perfect housekeepers I ever knew in my life were members of my congregation in New England--one was a suffragist and the other had no thought of the rights of women.
Murdock, a pioneer suffragist and member of the late convention.
As representing Idaho, first I wish to express the heartfelt gratitude of every equal suffragist in our proud and happy State to the National Association for the most generous help afforded us in our two years' campaign.
Because a woman is a suffragist is no reason that she may not be a good housekeeper.
The people who not many years ago thought that every woman suffragist was a masculine creature who "wanted to wear the pants" would have been greatly embarrassed in their theories had they been present at the hearing to-day.
You may still be a countess--but you must drop this suffragist show, you know.
At any rate, supported at first by the old Earl, he began a series of persecutions designed to make me renounce my suffragist principles, or at least to make me cease playing a conspicuous public part in the militant propaganda.
But to do the woman suffragist justice, she does not press the argument from chivalry.
The programme, as distinguished from the methods, of these women is not very different from that of the ordinary suffragist woman.
For the moment--for we shall presently be coming back to the question of the enforcement of rights--our task is to examine the arguments which the suffragist brings forward in support of her claims.
And it did not appear that any other woman suffragist could discern any kind of immorality in it.
Economic and Physiological Difficulties of Woman--Intellectual Grievances of Suffragist and Corrective.
The suffragist here gives to man "counsels of perfection.
It is probably quite useless for an anti-suffragist or a supporter of vivisection to endeavour to meet half-way a militant suffragist or a whole-hearted anti-vivisectionist.
Daphne said, “Serve you right for getting an anti-suffragist to speak.
Eddy, a keen suffragist himself, said it was because Jane had never lived among the very poor.
When the speaker was warned that a policeman had his eye on her, the little old woman's instant solicitude showed that the dauntless Suffragist had both touched and frightened her.
The Prime Minister, between you and me, is as good a Suffragist as any of us.
Here again, the suffragist and the socialist women showed where their sympathies lay and of what mettle they were made.
On the other hand a great many influences have combined to wake up the suffragist of our day to the true meaning and value of what she was asking.
Every suffragist I have ever met has been a lover of home; and only the conviction that she is fighting for her home, her children, for other women, or for all of these, has sustained her in her public work.
Mrs. Wells was the first anti-suffragist I ever knew in this country.
I am a suffragist but not "high church," I am a suffragist and something else.
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, the pioneer suffragist of the northwest, presented to Dr.
The suffragist who has not been mobbed," she said, "has nothing really interesting to look back upon.
When suffrage comes to the women of Tennessee I shall derive one substantial pleasure from it if I am still living, the joy and exultation of my little daughter, who has been a pronounced and persistent suffragist since she was nine years old.
A letter of greeting was sent to Mrs. Ellen Clark Sargent, a veteran suffragist of San Francisco, and letters to Miss Laura Clay and Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, regretting their absence.
Merrick, the pioneer suffragist of Louisiana and the lifelong friend of Miss Anthony, came in for her share of the honors of the evening.
And, by the way, one of the most valuable kinds of press work is that which can be done by everysuffragist individually.
The anti-suffragist is the isolated woman, she is the belated product of the 18th century.
Hence we give here an account of the progress of the woman-suffrage cause up to the California election as it appeared to the prominentsuffragist writer, Ida Husted Harper, and to the honored suffragist leader, Jane Addams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffragist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: civic; diplomatic; franchise; governmental; politic; political; statesmanlike; suffrage; vote
