She had not the cockroaches, bugs, fleas and lice that the earliest Suffragists of 1908 had to complain of.
She might, for instance, dilate on the cruel manner in which the Woman Suffragists had been persecuted in England; give a description of forcible feeding or of police ferocity on Black Friday.
Moreover she heard by some intended channel about this time that scores of imprisoned suffragistswere hunger-striking to secure her better treatment and were endangering if not their lives at any rate their future health and validity.
No better work can be done by Wisconsin suffragists than to try to defeat every one of them at the next election.
When the convention closed its forenoon's labors, it took a recess until half-past 7 o'clock for the purpose of affording the female suffragists an opportunity to plead their cause before a full meeting.
Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and other suffragists in and out of the House of Commons concur in the opinion that the present situation gives our movement almost a certainty of success in the session of 1912.
In those thirty years the movement had progressed until it had reached a point when it could count upon a majority of suffragists being returned in each successively elected House of Commons.
But male anti-suffragists dwell chiefly on the negative part of their programme.
It was obvious to all suffragists that they should turn their artillery on their opponents rather than on each other.
The anti-suffragists used the same arguments which they use with us.
The more astute political minds among the anti-suffragists immediately saw the importance of this promise.
This illustrates the degree of knowledge possessed by the most distinguished of the anti-suffragists of the work-a-day world in which humbler mortals have to live.
American anti-suffragists are as bitterly opposed to municipal and school suffrage for women (where it does not exist) as they are to political suffrage.
When suffragists conduct a canvass of the same people on the same subject the result is entirely different.
English suffragists can only heartily rejoice that English anti-suffragists are so much more intelligent than those of the United States.
Suffragists contend that a party which can do this cannot long maintain that women are by the mere fact of their sex unfit to be entrusted with a Parliamentary vote.
Diantha wuz one bird, the Reunion another, and the third bird I had in my mind's eye wuz the big outdoor meeting of the suffragiststhat wuz to be held in the city where Diantha lived, only a little ways from Lorinda's.
For the old idee that suffragists don't care for attractive dress and domestic life wuz exploded long ago, and many other old superstitions went up in the blaze.
Suffragists are the best mothers, the best housekeepers, the best dressers of any wimmen in the land.
Suffragists and "Antis"--representing every field of social work, presently joined the Committee.
The Suffragists withdrew with high hopes of a real measure of enfranchisement in the ensuing year.
Suffragist opinions were entrenched in the universities and the schools, and between the ardour of the Suffragists and the apathy of the nation generally the situation was full of danger.
Mrs. Ward had hardly returned from America before Lord Cromer and other prominent Anti-Suffragists approached her with regard to the starting of a society pledged to oppose the movement.
The opportunity was seized by the Suffragists to press the claims of women once more upon Parliament and public, and this time the response was overwhelmingly favourable.
From this Joint Committee the Suffrage question will be excluded, but it will contain a dozen of the leading Suffragists in the House, which ought, I think, to make it clear that it is no Anti conspiracy!
There are a great many more suffragists now--so many that society has agreed not to ostracize them.
The people" were on the Avenue watching the suffragists parade.
Perhaps he thought it a trifling incident staged by a minority of the extreme "left" among suffragists and anticipated no popular support for it.
There we found the suffragists who had preceded us, locked in cells.
The President accepted at once the opportunity to speak before a convention of suffragists at Atlantic City in an effort to prove his great belief in suffrage.
The first suffragists sent the worms to Whittaker on a spoon.
My heart was palpitating, for the authorities had threatened arrest if any suffragists were {218} found on the prison grounds, and aside from my personal feelings, I could not at that moment abandon headquarters.
In effect the decision declared that every one of the 218 suffragists arrested up to that time was illegally arrested, illegally convicted, and illegally imprisoned.
One day, as I came into his office for an interview, I met a member of the conservative suffragists just leaving, and we spoke.
The nation was shocked into the realization that this was not a street brawl between women and policemen, but a controversy between suffragists and a powerful Administration.
Not even an intolerable diet of raw salt pork, which by actual count of Miss Margaret Potheringham, a teacher of Domestic Science and Dietetics, was served the suffragists sixteen times in eighteen days, could break their spirit of gayety.
The candidates, a little more suave than the party leaders, proved most eloquently that they had been suffragists "from birth.
By this time Silvia and all the suffragists in the audience were applauding wildly, while Carroll Renner laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks, and once more Frank turned a patient and puzzled countenance to the presiding officer.
It might interest you young men to know that these suffragists are to finish their day's work with a ball and a bazaar to-night, and I have tickets for a box," suggested Hilda.
But if the anti-suffrage movement is growing as we have been told, can't the anti-suffragists overcome those tendencies?
Delegates Cobourn, Shartzer, Curry and the minority floor leader, Vernon Simmons, explained how the suffragists had been deceived and made an earnest plea for fair play.
During the twenty years covered by this chapter the Twin City suffragists never failed to keep open house during the State Fair, where speakers were heard and literature was distributed.
The chief opponents were the German Russians in Emmons and surrounding counties and a handful of anti-suffragists who came from outside the State.
The Examiner, Record Herald, Post and Journal sent reporters by railroad and trolley, who joined the suffragists at their stopping places.
Mrs. William Milnes Maloy was chairman of the Suffrage Campaign Committee and Mrs. Robert Moss of the legislative work in Annapolis, and the committee was composed of prominent suffragistsfrom all the societies.
In 1919 a similar bill was introduced by Assemblyman David Young of Morris county but the suffragistsmade so strong a demonstration against it that it was killed in committee.
On the 10th representativesuffragists appeared at the Democratic State convention urging one but the plea fell upon dull ears and unresponsive hearts.
All that the suffragists were able to do during the winter of 1919 was to press for a Presidential suffrage bill such as had been adopted by a number of States.
After a brief respite, the suffragists took up the work of a registration "drive" for the spring election in April, when an amendment to weaken the prohibition law was to be voted on.
An informal luncheon followed in one of the Des Moines tea rooms which had often housed the suffragists in times of desolation and it was turned into a jollification meeting.
After the election county chairmen and all suffragists were asked to urge their representatives in Congress to support the Federal Amendment.
The Chicago Tribune said: "The anti-suffragists made no fight against the resolution on the floor of the convention, probably realizing they were hopelessly outnumbered.
Birthdays of pioneer suffragistswere celebrated by special meetings, local clubs always responding to a call with so concrete an object.
How grateful to Judge Selden must all the suffragists be!
Blackwell, editor of the Woman's Journal, wrote Miss Anthony: I have given my views to Mrs. Stanton as to the wisdom of concentrating the woman suffragists in support of the Republican candidates and platform.
But when I entered Holloway on that April day in 1913, it was with full knowledge that I had before me a far more prolonged struggle than any that the militant suffragists had hitherto faced.
We call upon all sincere suffragists to leave the Liberal party until women are given votes on equal terms with men.
The suffragistswould have been only too glad to have had the Government deliberate on a broader form of suffrage.
The idea of militantsuffragists respecting a law of this order is almost humorous, and yet the smile dies before the pity one feels for the Minister whose confession of failure is embodied in such a measure.
I have known many young Englishmen who began their political life as suffrage speakers and who later became anti-suffragists or traitorous "friends" of the cause.
They are party members first and suffragists afterward; or they are suffragists part of the time and social theorists the rest of the time.
Its object was declared to be the bringing together of the full strength of suffragists of the House of Commons, regardless of party affiliation, and of framing a suffrage measure that could be passed by their united effort.
But when suffragistsinterrupt Mr. Lloyd-George he says something polite like this: "Pay no attention to those cats mewing.
But when the debates began we found both of these ardent suffragists arrayed against the bill.
I am glad to say that owing to the efforts of suffragists she was pardoned and provided with a better home.
Then I get letters from people who tell me that they are ardent suffragists but who say that they do not like the recent developments in the militant movement, and implore me to urge the members not to be reckless with human life.
For years past I have heard quiet suffragists say that all their efforts have been like knocking in a padded room.
The suffragists must do something to convince me that the bulk of England's thoughtful and intelligent men are not opposed to it before I move in the matter.
After repeatedly substituting the word "communionism" for "communism," she abandoned the text and began to abuse the suffragists in language with which she was more familiar.
But I should like to say one thing, and that is, that in my work it has seemed that if we could convince everybody of the motives of the suffragists we would go far toward removing prejudices.
Is that the office to which woman suffragists of this country ask us now to admit them?
Why, even the rich suffragistshave sense enough to know that solidarity is ten times more important than the vote.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst was rearrested (June 10) in the East End while heading a deputation of suffragists to Parliament, though part of it reached the Houses of Parliament and saw the Liberal Chief Whip, who naturally gave them no satisfaction.
Bomb outrage by militant suffragists in Edward the Confessor's Chapel in Westminster Abbey; the Coronation Chair and Stone were slightly injured.
May 14 the houses of Lord Lansdowne and Sir Edward Carson were picketed by suffragiststo emphasise the contention that the Ulster leaders should also be treated as in revolt.
The anti-suffragists held at bottom that only the fit should vote, but in that case many men would lose the vote, and many women would have it.
Militant Suffragists and the Bishop of London, [10].
The recruiting field for the militant suffragists is the million of our excess female population--that million which had better long ago have gone out to mate with its complement of men beyond the sea.
It had, and has, no relation to the programmes of the militant suffragists as set out at the outset of this letter.
The great body of constitutional suffragists kept their organization intact but used it for "sustaining the vital energies of the nation.
As the war went on it became clearer and clearer that the men of the country saw more and more vividly why suffragists had asked for votes--and more and more were impressed with the value of their work.
Child welfare work in particular the Suffrage woman organized and worked, Glasgow Suffragists taking on the visiting of babies, always done there, in a whole ward of the city, and in other towns they started Day Nurseries.
The suffragists of France reported just before the war broke out that the French Parliament was pledged to extend universal municipal suffrage to women.
Men who had always been pronounced suffragists weakly confessed themselves afraid to speak for woman suffrage in the campaign lest votes be lost for their party.
Although thesuffragists kept their question distinctly separate from prohibition, the wet and dry issue, it was generally admitted, would prove a determining factor.
Since election laws do not protect suffrage referenda, suffragists justly demand the method prescribed by our national constitution to appeal their case from male voters at large to the higher court of Congress and the Legislatures.
As the recent petition of German suffragists to the Reichstag states, their country stands "in the lowest rank of nations as regards women's rights.
The suffragists said, We wish to serve and we are ready for service.
Another flagrant falsehood perpetually being dinned into our ears by the suffragists is the statement that women have to obey the same laws as men.
The Unconscious Suffragists "They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have votes.
Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists "Woman's place is in my home.
Warning to Suffragists ("The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less attractive.
My general opinions on the feminine question are such as many suffragists would warmly approve; and it would be easy to state them without any open reference to the current controversy.
If it is admitted, the Suffragists have not merely to awaken an indifferent, but to convert a hostile majority.
Well, I don't know if my boys and Theodore call me blessed, but I hope the Suffragists will one day.
Suffragists always put things through, and I shall concentrate on this for the next three weeks.
And--there is the Hospital--and to-night you have to address this Meeting ofSuffragists at the Royal Hall.
They must have come from the Mass Meeting of Suffragists that had taken place at the Royal Hall.
Put me on six good plain-clothes men at this Mass Meeting of Suffragists at the Royal Hall to-night.
She was surprised to find no condemnation of her actions in Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly but only the implication that the suffragists were too slow for Victoria's great work.
In Carrie, Susan recognized qualities demanded of a leader at this stage of the campaign when suffragistsmust learn to be as keen as politicians and as well organized.
She visited suffragists in Scotland and Ireland as well as in England and occasionally spoke at their meetings.
Even more unforgivable than this to the abolitionist suffragists were the back-page advertisements of a new woman-suffrage paper, The Revolution, and of woman's rights tracts which could be purchased from Susan B.
Yours with ceaseless regret that any 'wing' of suffragists should attempt to write the history of the other.
The attitude of some of the leading suffragists toward Victoria Woodhull remained a problem.
Suffragists were condemned for compiling a new Bible and were obliged to explain again and again that The Woman's Bible expressed Mrs. Stanton's personal views and not those of the movement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffragists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
