Votes For Women!

Anti-suffragist groups were made up of both men and women but were led primarily by women. The 'antis" as they were known opposed women's suffrage for multiple reasons:

• a woman's power comes from her womanhood and femininity rather than her political affiliation
• that family is the bedrock of society and government, not the payment of taxes (thus taxation with representation was irrelevant)
• in many states women already have the right to vote on school affairs (and very few exercised this right)
• suffrage is allied with socialism and feminism which are godless and anti-family
• there was a fear that women would get the vote and then use that vote to bring prohibition

Suffragettes Defy Antis Perth Amboy evening news  July 28, 1913,  Page 4, Image 4

Suffrage, For and Against  Perth Amboy evening news. July 18, 1914,  Page 4, Image 4

Woman suffrage battle opens in New Jersey as antis unlimber big guns   Bridgeton pioneer.   20 May 1915, image 6

Jurist Against Woman Suffrage  Bridgeton pioneer., September 23, 1915, Image 5

Clergy Against Woman Suffrage  Bridgeton pioneer., September 30, 1915, Image 5

Battle Here for Suffrage Issue Perth Amboy evening news.  October 13, 1915, Image 1

Mrs. Feickert in attach on Nugent  Perth Amboy evening news.    05 Oct. 1916, image 3

Anti-Suffrage Talk in Matawan  Perth Amboy evening news.  February 27, 1917,  Page 11, Image 11

Anti Suffrage Move Planned Perth Amboy evening news. February 19, 1920, Image 7

New Jersey Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage  |  Men's Anti Suffrage League of New Jersey  |  Georgiana E. Breese (Mrs. Edward Yarde Breese)  |  Alla MacKie Emery  |  James F. Fielder  |  Jennie Tuttle Hobart  |  Col. William Libbey  |  James R. Nugent  |