"She was the target of a verbal attack at a 1915 "riot" between suffrage and anti-suffrage activists in Washington D. C. That same year, she spoke against suffrage in New Jersey, saying "The life of the average woman is not so ordered as to give her first hand knowledge of those things which are the essentials of sound government...She is worthily employed in other departments of life, and the vote will not help her fulfill her obligations therein."