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mmmmmsmmmmmmsm vw- WOMEN THRONG AUDITORIUM TO PROTEST AGAINST OUSTING OF MRS. YOUNG The resignation of John D. Shoop was demanded by 3,000 citizens of Chicago, who packed the Auditorium today at the mass meeting called for the purpose of forcing- Mrs. Ella Flagg Young back into the position from which she was ousted. It was a wonderful meeting. And it fdretold the strength that the wo men of Illinois will exercise in the future. And the handful of old-time, politicians who were game enough to attend the meeting shivered in' their seats. .v Following several speeches, by sey- eral prominent Chicagoans a" resolu tion was passed denouncing the un- derhand manner by which 'Mrs. Young was ousted and demanding that John D. Shoop prove he was not a party to the plot by resigning. Miss Margaret Haley first stirred the meeting when she cried out that Shoop did not know he was going to be made superintendent before the board met. "That morning some one, who is now on this platform, called Shoop up and told him about it," she said. And every onelooked curiously at the platform on which was seated John Harding, the Hearst-Harrison member of the board. "And when Shoop came down to the office that day he did not .go to the board meet ing, and that meeting was about the only one" he hasn't attended when he has been in the city."' Later in the meeting John Harding stood up and asked for' the privilege of the floor. A roar of pisses greeted him. Finally Jane Addams made a plea for him .and he' was allowed to talk three minutes His chief defense was that Edwin CoOley, a formed superintendent, was elected in precisely the Eame manner, by the blank ballot. 'Mrs. Harriet Taylor Treadwell brought the meeting -to its feet by the announcement that Judge Foell'had I just declared the suffrage bill con stitutional and then she sounded the warning that made every politician squirm. "Politics must go," she shouted. "Real progress must come to pass now. Mrs. Young can be given back her old place in spite of what any one says. Line- up 10Q men in every pre cinct and you'll see how easily she can be put back. And when she does go'back Bhe must be given full power. She must be given power to control Louis E. Larson, the secretary of the board." -A letter from Mayor Harrison was read. In it he said that men whom he respected had gone against his wishes in the matter of ousting Mrs. Young. He also said that there should be two more vacancies on the board, but said it was up to the new superintendent himself to resign; that the mayor was powerless to act. He also declared that he believed under hand methods were responsible for the election of Shoop. Mrs. Henry Solomon, Jewish Wo- v man's Ass'n, tried to get through a resolution asking that William Roth man and John J. Sonsteby resign, but Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones succeed ed in having it skipped. Mrs. George W. Bass, "Who acted as chairman of the meeting, strongly denounced the "frame-up" on the part of the board. Jane Addams said that this was the opening gun of the war of the women against the politicians. "Tiflere can be no doubt that the school board is a political asset," she said. "If not, why does the mayor hold the resignations of all the mem bers before they take office? It is quite obvious that if any member of the board dares do anything In defi ance of the mayor's wishes, the member faces ousting." Mrs. John McMation of the school board, Jenkin LlOyd Jones, Aid. Jaa.