Suffrage and the Man (1912)

• 81%
• 1912

A young man learns that his betrothed is leaning toward the suffragette cause. He remonstrates with her father to be told "my butler and my bootblack may vote, why not my wife and daughter?" He cannot agree, however, and their quarrel brings about a broken engagement. Disappointed and unhappy, he seeks forgetfulness by going to a summer resort. There he succumbs to the wiles of a designing mother, and caught in an embarrassing position, her daughter "feinting a faint" in his arms; he permits their engagement to be announced. He learns, by an accidental eavesdropping, of the mother's trickery. He loses no time to denounce the deception and withdraw his offer of marriage. The mother and daughter promptly start suit tor breach of promise. In the meantime votes have been won for women. The trial of the suit comes up before a mixed jury, of men and women, with the old sweetheart as forewoman of the twelve peers. Their verdict is acquittal! And as might be expected, "suffrage wins Herbert" with a permanently happy result in his reconciliation and marriage.