Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-28
The men TIMID
Suffrage Automobile Campaign
ers Have Trouble Getting
Audience.
OPEN WORK AT ROCKFORD
Invasion of Northern Towns by Chi
cago Women Made Occasion for
Social Functions.

Rockford, ILL.,, June 2S.-The Illinois
State Suffrage associations little army
descended upon Rockford yesterday,
the first city attacked in the invasion
of northern Illinois. The suffragists
did not find entertainments thrown up
against them here, but they did find
the workingmen in the factory dis
tricts provokingly timid
Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mccullough
was quick TO act. If the men could
not be induced TO surround the autos
from which the yellow banners were
flying and listen to good suffrage argu-
ments. then they should be made TO
hear it inside the factory. She went
right up to the open windows to make
her speech. A bench was passed out
to her and she mounted it, and those
inside heard her as well as those brave
enough to come outside.
The rallying songs by Miss Jennie
F. w. Johnson helped lot, and it was
not long before the campaigners had
interested auditors.
Know Her as ''I<itty."
The party here consisted Of DR.. Anna
Blount. vice president of the Illinois
Equal Suffrage association; Mrs Cath
crime Waugh Mccullough, who is Kit
ty'' to Rockford people, she having
formerly resided here; Miss Helen
Todd and Miss Johnson. They arrived
at 11:19 o'clock over the Northwestern
road and were met by a local commit
tee. Autos donated by Rockford resi-
dents were decked with yellow pen
nants and the mottos Votes for
Women" and NO Vote, No Tax and
whirled the speakers away on tour
of part of the factory district.
This immediate campaign is not to
get votes for women, but to ask for
honest legislation" declared DR.. Anna
Blount. I'VE ask you as voters to put
men into Office who will give US clean
LEGISLATION and not the corruption
which at present prevails. II men
were put into office who would give
honest and clean legislation they would
give the ballot to women.
Merely Housekeeping.
LEGISLATION is housekeeping on the
LARGEST scale, and everybody know' /
woman is an important factor in good
housekeeping
Speaking from her bench outside /
the window of Greenlee Bros plant, /
Mrs. Mccullough reminded her audi /
enca of the franchise privileges OBJ
tanned by women in Norway, Sweden /
and Denmark.
MANY of you came to this country
tn better the condition of your fami-
lies. Do you want your wives and
daughters TO have fewer privileges IN
this country than would have been
theirs had they remained over there!
Most men when elected to the law
making body lose sight of the fact
they are chosen to represent women
and children as well as men"
Miss Helen Todd made her audience
of men take notice of her reasons why
laboring women should vote.
Women Need Protection.
She declared the 100000 women
and girls working in factories need as
much protection as boys. After siren
uous effort the women of Illinois sue
ceeded in getting a 10 hour law
through the Legislature. she said, With
which statute fhey were forced 10 be
content. but if women could have voted
an eight hour law would have been
passed.
Women needs the ballot because
politics controls everything of vital
import to women and her home she
continued.
The trouble is the country has gone
mad over legislation and cares little
for administration. The hue and cry