The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-10
TO the Second and Third District
Federation of Women's Clubs:


Federation of Women's Clubs:
Greeting:
Permit me, If possible, to make
clear to you the real situation of the
First District, regarding the local op-
ton movement.
When the fact was borne in upon
the minds of so many of us that now
| Is the time to act for temperance
legislation in Idaho, and realizing
that 1t must be submitted to the in
dividual clubs, | wrote each club in
the First District, December 20, lay
ing the matter before them, asking
that they discuss the subject, take an
expression of the club, and advise me
OF same, also, if the movement met
with their approval, to please appoint
a capable woman to act on the legis-
lative committee for the district. The
answers, with one exception, (where
because of local conditions, they felt
1t unwise for the club to take an ac-
tive part in the movement) express
ed approval, most of them with en-
thuslasm, and our legislative COM
mittee represents each club town
save one.
We did not attempt to solve all of
the questions which would arise in
connection with this work at first; we
merely ascertained that as a district
we wanted our legislative committee
to do what they could toward secur-
ing a local option law.
OF course, we hoped the movement
n
Butterfield's permission, l wrote the
presidents of the Second and Third
districts. Mrs. Mather of Mountain
Home reported her own home club
In favor of such a movement and
said she had written the clubs of
her district l have heard nothing
rs yet from the Third District.
Our plan of operation is such that
we can go as far as seems best in the
estimation of the majority, and we
IAN stop when they express the wish
'ur First District chairman, Mrs. A.
:. Campbell of Idaho Falls, will ad
!ress her committee this week
nrough Echoes" asking that thew
rrange for legislative day in each
Tub, to plan their work, ETC.. that .
hey use the local press, the pulpit,
lass meetings, or the house to house
anVass, any or all of these methods :
, impress upon the minds and hearts !,
men and women, the need for at
ending the political primaries. to :.
1ere insist upon only such men as =
andidates who will favor righteous !
'glslation on this question. y
mat, you see, is legitimate work -
IF this committee and will result in .
bod II nothing else be done. a
AS to how the matter be presented -
the state legislature, If presented :"
rmally at all, that can be arranged
delegates, at the district and state "
eetings who will express the sent y. y.
ent Of the clubs they represent Rv u
at time we shall all know what is NJ
'eded and what is the wise thing to ~ w
VIII not the Second and Third Dis 81
cts adopt the plan at least as far q.
the primaries are concerned? If ~,
nc movement were general W.
roughout the state, it might make VI,
rther action on the part of the fed o ol
tied clubs unnecessary. n o
realize now that | have been ~. ua
newhat remiss in keeping Mrs. az az
ego informed as to the real feeling u l!k
our clubs on this subject, and / WI
ret the oversight. -,
The First District has no intention W.
being headstrong in the work ~
realize the supreme Importance us,
unity of purpose and action, and W. W.
III be glad of any suggestions from t DE
state president, Mrs. Butterfield. ; .ne
Yours in the work, .ni
EMMA REESOR. Nv. Ivy
Pres. First District W.:
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