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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0026 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
| October 3, 1914.] MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS 211 CONGRESSIONAL, UNION HEADQUARTERS IN KANSAS CITY The above headquarters are located at 7J4 Minnesota avenue. Mrs. <1. \V. Ltttatf and Miss I.. C Trax of Maryland, who are conducting the Federal campaign in Kansas, are shown in the picture. MISS TRAX AND MRS. LATIMER IN KANSAS Campaign for Federal Amendment Starta With a Bang—Fight On In Earnest. The anti-Democratic campaign of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, with headquarters at 724 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kans., is on in earnest. The location of the headquarters is unmis- takable. A large sign in purple and gold letters on a white ground, swinging over the street, greets the eye several blocks away. In the windows is displayed the current issue of the Sufiratjist, which contains the full suffrage record of the Democratic party, and interesting photo- graphs of the various campaigners who will go into the nine free States. 1'lacanls are also displayed, some of which read: "Women of Kan- sas! The Democratic |«irty has blocked the passage of the National Woman Suffrage Hill. What will you do about it?" Another reads: "No woman can make a higher use of her vote than to cast it for the extension of suffrage over the whole country. We appeal to the women voters of the nine free States, to those women who have won freedom for themselves, to cast their votes on the one issue of woman suffrage. ()nce well done, it will never have to be done again." And this placard contains the gist of the entire campaign: "We ask the women of the West to lend their hand—more powerful than ours— In the great task of enfranchising all the women of America. For the sake of the women of the future we ask them to rebuke the party which has opposed the enfranchisement of women. We ask them to withhold their supjwrt from the Democratic candidates for Congress." One of the most gratifying features of the campaign is the hearty co-operation rendered by the women from the suffrage States. Miss I.. C. Trax, who, with Mrs. F.dna S. Latimer, has charge of the Kansas campaign, spoke before a group of Kansas City (Kans.) women at the home of Mrs. Albertson. She reviewed the record of the Sixty-third Congress on national woman suffrage and showed how all the utterances of the Democratic President and the Democratic caucus were hostile to woman suffrage. She stated that every committee in the House and Senate has on it a majority of the Democratic party, the party in power, and that the Rules Committee had absolutely refused to report a rule making the suffrage amendment in order. She further said that since the Democratic party in the Sixty-third Congress has so successfully blocked the national woman suffrage bill, the Congressional Union would work for the defeat of the Congressional Democratic tickets in the nine suffrage States, and that the fight in Kansas would be against Senator- elect Nccley and the Democratic candidates from the eight Congressional districts. "We are not campaigning against Mr. Neeley and Mr. Connelly be- cause we do not approve of them as men. We are only sorry that they belong to the Democratic party. From the standpoint of the millions of women in the F-ast who want enfranchisement, a Democratic majority in Congress is absolutely undesirable, because of the solid vote against suffrage of the Southern Democrats, 131 in number, who control the caucus vote. It is a matter of practical politics. If the women voters of the West place woman suffrage above party issues, they, too, will not want a Democratic Congress. The question of woman suffrage will then lie a national issue, and no party going into power this autumn will dare ignore it." Miss Trax left on Monday for the Sixth District, where she will visit the most important towns, and where she will hold meetings and inter- view the women of the community. The Campaign in Washington—Aid From Progressives and Republicans Refuted. Miss Margaret 1'ay Whittemore, in charge of the Washington State cauqiaign, writes that already their campaign has achieved such results that both Progressive and Republican campaign headquarters look upon them with great enthusiasm, and each of these parties has even offered them the use of their own headquarters as suffrage headquarters as well. "We have promptly refused these offers," writes Miss Whittemore. "We informed both the Progressive and Republican headquarters that we were absolutely non-partisan and could not ally ourselves with either of them. We told them that we were not opposing the Democrats be- cause they were Democrats, but simply because they were the party at present in control of the national tiovernment and were opposing the Federal suffrage amendment. We told them that if the Republican:, or Progressives were in jiower and blocked our amendment, we would op- pose them in the same way." Former Deputy Commissioner of Immigration Urges Women to Forget Feel- ings of "Party First." The women of Colorado arc also sending many offers of help. This week Miss Josephine Roche, the famous Denier policewoman, Dr. Maude Sanders, Progressive nominee for the Colorado Senate, and Mrs. Dora Phelps Ilucll, formerly Deputy Commissioner of Immigration and the first woman who ever ran for the Colorado Senate, have joined the Con- gressional Union and entered into its election campaign. After Miss Doris Stevens, the Congressional Union organizer in charge of the Colo- rado campaign, had spoken to the Hoard of the Equal Suffrage Association of Colorado, Mrs. Itucll made a most impassioned appeal in behalf of the program outlined by the Congressional Union of appealing to the women voters to oppose the Democratic candidates for Congress in all of the nine suffrage States. She said that she thought the political policy of the Con- gressional Union was the most intelligent and astute political policy she had ever listened to. She urged the women to forget their feelings of "party first," "Wilson, right or wrong," etc., and to yield to the call of their disfranchised sisters first. "You women talk of the help our Colorado men have given us. I lave they given this help for any reason but that we as women should in turn vote for them? You women know that everything that we women have got we have had to struggle for single-banded. We must not be cowards in the face of an appeal for help from other women. We should say sisterhood first and party second. I am a Democratic woman, the same as many of the rest of you are. but let us not be blind to our present duty." IF YOU HAVE READ THE TESTIMONY fruiii tin* rJuveriiorM, iMHtaHt rt.-.. from tlu> tBAsfli Stutes liHltatlllwl In the Suffrage Watch "HOW IT WORKS" you hnve from first authority Hint when* woman xufTnice has lwen tried it hits hern sucvcsitfut. Now, If you arc lutereHted to know why ll has mm, MeMMfat, pro- cure a copy of Why Equal Suffrage Has Been A Success DR. THADWtt S l\ THOMAS (Price f> cents; |*oMtpald, ll cents). Tills in a 13-page pamphlet, helng pnrt of an address delivered to tlie Iviiiiil S11 .Tract* l.i'iiciif of Baltimore l-y Thaddcus I*. Thomas, I'li.IX, professor of economics ami sociology at IJtaiclier College, Baltimore. "Custom snys: 'Ymi iirr too /iiirr mot r.mltetl unit r'hrrrul In itrnn n •WW »/ MOW hi n filtt** taoV Ami ninny a woman replies: 7 in OWN tflit. If you irilt ftattrr im like OMMmMV, you mun innore iih like lumiticn.' "But thei'e'x ituv hlenseil ronnoUtt'uni iitiout OOSpAJ nho rulmitrrr to hv lunatics—thry arv eii/tuhh- of reenreriiifi their irtmoii nith *nr/n-i*ini/ suihlenncs*. "THEY ARE DOING JUST THAT THING AT THE PRESENT TIME. THEY ARE BEING CONVERTED TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY THOUSANDS.'* Have You Been Chnvkbtku? Yes? Haw ytiu converteit someone elsvtt ITS UP TO YOU! You can lielp In the hattle for woman's freedom or you can he n higgnrd. To those whom you ¦¦amiot we i*»*r«onally, SKNI> I.ITKUATTRR MBS. CIIAS. .T. KKI.LKB. Chairman Literature Committee, 22*2 \V. Monument St.. Baltimore, Md. HILP THI CAUtl—Montlon tht Maryland •un>O0O Now© Whin Patronlilno. Our AdvtrtlMr*. |