Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
Is What the Newly Organized Nom
Partisan Women's Christian
Union Desire,
WHILE FIGHTING KING ALCOHOL.
Full Text of the Call for the National Con-
vention Soon to Meet in
Allegheny City.
ALI TEMPERANCE WOMEN ARE INVITED,
Whether Delegates Not to Attend and Show Their In.
tsrest IN the Cause

CLEVELAND, October 2s.-The following
call for National Convention of the Nom
Partisan National Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union has been made:
CLEVELAND, o., October 2S, 1890.
To the Non-Partisan Temperance Women Of the
Nation:
A little over nine months ago the reasons for
an uncompromised, unequivocal and untram.
meled national organization of temperance
women were given to the people at large,
followed soon after by rallying call, not only
to the members of Non-Partisan Women's
Christian Temperance Unions and members of
other unions opposed to the partisan alliance
but to women outside of these organizations
who are in sympathy with our principles and
methods" to attend mass convention In
Cleveland, O., January 2, . and "a, lSS0 Ihls
convention was attended by women from IL
States and the District of Columbia, and its
outcome was the organization of the Non
Partisan National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union.
In obedience to provision of the constitu-
tion adopted at the convention for the guild
suce of the new organization, which stipulates
that This association shall meet annually in
the month of November" we
CALL UPON THE DELEGATES
from all auxiliary State unions, chosen upon
the basis of l for every 100 paying members,
and delegates from unorganized States and Ter
ritoues on the basis of l delegate for every 100
members or fraction over so, to assemble in
Allegheny City, Pa, to transact the business
pertaining to to the first regular meeting of the
Non-Partisan National Women's Christian
To this meeting we invite all women in earn
est sympathy with us. even if they cannot con-
stitutionally be members of the convention be-
cause lacking the required constituency.
Let all who believe with US that alliance with
any party whatsoever tends to hinder, if not de-
feat, genuine temperance work, feel them
selves specially invited to the first regular
meeting. The discussion of vital questions
will be helpful to all and dispel the mIsts that
befog so many minds. The reasons which led
TO this separate organization still exist
NECESSITY FOR THE ORGANIZATION.
Although this movement has led the parent
society and many OF its auxiliaries to repudiate
partisanship by official utterances and other
wise, the facts remain the same and the neces-
sity of new rallying centef for the non
partisan temperance women of the nation has
been further emphasized in the experiences of
the year. Our platform is broad enough for all.
Neither denomInational creeds nor party prefer
ences are test of membership or OF loyalty
in the new organization: total abstinence from
all Intoxicating beverages, fealty to gospel
temperance work, and the payment of dues, is
the simple basis on which We unite for the eX-
tnetion of the deadly enemy against which we
are arrayed.
We were vindicated by the Iowa Union by a
vote of SIS to 6S IN favor of severing its auxil-
held, October %, one of the most notable con-
ventons on record in that wide-awake State,
bringing together representatives from more
local unions than the old organization had at
the end OF the first SIX years of its existence.
GROWTH OF THE MOVEMENT.
In Maine it has attained remarkable growth
in six months and the work gathers momentum
''ss the days are going by.' Ohio has added
nearly half to its former membership within
the year. These facts go to show that the non-
partisan movement struck responsive chord in
this country, which will continue to vibrate till
a great army is enrolled under its standard to
hasten the emancipation Of America from
bondage to drink. The principle. no
partisanship in the temperance work,
but the fullest liberty outside the
organization for the exercise of individual po-
htical preferences and rights, commends itself
20 tair-minded men and women in the country
at large. Come. therefore. one and ALL not
only delegates from organized States and
unions at large, but any woman who believes in
our platform and principles. Come to the Ma
tional Convention at Allegheny City, Pa
ELLEN J. PHISNEY, President,
1872 Lexington avenue, Cleveland, o.
F. JENNIE DUTY, Vice President,
$50 Arlington street, Cleveland, o.