Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-04
TOUR STATE IN
AUTOS FOR VOTE.
Chicago Women Plan Invasion
of Every City, Village and
Hamlet.
MAKE SUFFRAGE AN ISSUE
Call Upon Those Devoted to Cause
to Furnish Machines to Spread
Propaganda.

Chicago, May 4.-Bands of women
suffragists, touring the state in auto
mobiles, will descend upon every city.
town, village and hamlet in Illinois
before the legislative primaries next
September in an effort to make the
question of votes for women the
leading issue in a campaign that al
ready has so many angles that it
promises to be the hardest fought leg
islative battle ever experienced in
Illinois.
Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch,
lawyer and justice of the peace in Ev-
anston and a leader in the equal suf
frage movement, made the first an
nouncement of the plan yesterday.
VIII Call for Machines.
Every woman who has ever indica-
ted sympathy with the woman's suf-
enough to possess an automobile will
be called upon to give her machine to
the work. Several already have prom
ised to do so, and within few days
all will have received a request from
the campaign committee to cooperate.
The society suffragists' must con-
secrate their automobiles to our cause"
said Mrs. McCulloch. Our worst trou-
BILE now is that the legislators do not
take us seriously, and to gain success
we must elect legislature pledged to
woman suffrage. Tours of the state
seem to us the best means of educa-
ting the voters to the merits of our
cause
Five I'm Each Party.
I'VE plan now to have five women
In each party First, a matron as
chaperon, for we Illinois suffragists
are very proper, you know. Then a
college girl, a working girl. a singer,
to draw the crowd, you know, and
woman lawyer. We will go into a
town, get permit to speak from the
mayor and hold meetings in two or
three different places and present our
cause to the voters.
81 expect to take part in the tours,
and another woman who will go is
Miss Harriet Grim, a graduate of the
University of Chicago and our state
organizer We will get most of our
college girls from the College Suffrage /
league and our working girls from the
Political Equality union. Mrs. Ray
mond Robins will go whenever she |
can and she will organize the working |
girls for us
MANY women plan to spend their |
summer vacations in this way. Or. [
Anna Blount of Oak Park is going for
at least two weeks. Miss Helen Todd.
a graduate of the University OF Wis
consin and a state factory inspector,
is another, and we expect to get lot
more right away
One Machine Promised.
Mrs James E. Defenbaugh has
promised us her automobile for all
summer, and our state president, Mrs.
Ella Stewart, will give US another.
We're going to begin looking up the
women who have automobiles right
away"
DR.. Anna E Blount, who spoke be-
fore the congressional committee on
the equal rights bill a few days ago,
heartily favors the idea.
Some of our best speakers will go,
she said. "The British women at the
national convention in Washington
few days ago told us that the only
difficulty after speaking in the streets
q few times is to resist the temptation
to start a meeting every time two or
more people are seen standing on a
street corner We will be assisted by
A number of college girls, but l can't
make their names public at this time"
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