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BRUNSWICK TIMES, MONDAY iWOULD BE FIRST WOMAN IN CHAIR“Baby Suffragettes’ ” Presi= dential Boom Launched.PREDICTS VOTES IN 5 YEARS8ixt«*n-y*ar-old Dorothy Frooka, Who Expoctod to 3p*ak to tho Logialaturo In Favor of Suffrage, but Loat Her Opportunity, Talks at Hotol.iLBeTrenton, X. J.f March la—“I shall be the first woman president of the United States, boldly declared pretty slxteeu-year-old Dorothy D. Frooks of Bayonne, fondly termed the baby suf-' fragette by her sister suffragettes.This declaration was made here after starting her presidential boom, prior to her return to her school duties In the Bayonne high school.The little suffragette with the big aspirations came to Trenton to make r speech ut the legislative heuring in the j Bil f statehouse on the resolution to amend \ the state constitution by allowing women to vote, but she did not get the opportunity. She frankly admitted thut a man had taken the time allotted i _ for her speech, but she did succeed In j making her address to persons at the i Hotel Windsor, where she was staying, j Miss Frooks was accompanied by 11. .W. Smith, a veteran of the civil war. ' who knew’ Abraham Lincoln person ally and who thinks the “baby suffragette is a wonderful miss. !The girl Is among the youngest of j the militant suffragettes. She Is a “suffragette,” not a “suffragist. ; “There Is a distinction between the two,” says Miss Frooks, “for a suffra- i gist Is not n fighter, while a suffragette j ls a warrior”-and she is the latter. ^ There is nothing of the drone about ! the “baby suffragette.” She intends to be a lawyer, then a judge; after that, a United States senator, and then the presidency!Miss Frooks said that when she first enlisted In the suffragette army her family opposed the campaign for women's votes, hut now she has converted them Irrevocably to the cause. Her f brother Is a former representative e from New York, and he also served in o the state legislature, z j In about five years she predicts tho ballot will come to the women. She confided to the reporter that when she i reaches the age of twenty-one she ex- j poets to cast her vote.BIF2i
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New Brunswick Times
New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
Sun, Mar 17, 1912
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