The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-20
Richmond Women's Progress
sive League Organized
Thursday with Member
ship of One Hundred.
kEENEST INTEREST
SHOWN BY MEMBERS
Organization a Representa-
tive One and Many Other
Women Will Unite with Itl
Leaders Say.
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

oF GSt nCh ohtFFt "ntIes A
Successful beyond the expectationsl
OF its sponsors was the meeting of thei
Progressive women of this city ind
the home of Mrs. William Dudley!
Foulke yesterday afternoon which re-
suited in the permanent organization
of the Richmond women's Progress
sive League with a membership OF
about one hundred.
That there is a strong sentiment pre-.
valent among the women of the town
toward affiliation with the Progressive
party was here manifested. testified to
by the presence of a number of women
who had hitherto not indicated any
particular interest in the general SUBJ
Ject of woman's suffrange.
And by the number of pointed and,
apropos speeches concerning Pro-,
gressive principles and the general POI
litical situation.
Interested in Politics.
That the women of Richmond are
conversant with the latter. and have
an intelligent comprehension of state
and local. as well as of national con-
ditions, was made evident and that
| declaring their opinions. apparant.
The new League is made up of rep.
resentatives of various social coter.
les and from different religious and
philanthropic organizations and is In.
elusive in character since almost every
element in the feminine life of the
community is represented.
Mrs. Foulke was made chairman
and opened the meeting with a short
talk on the recent manifestation of
women's civic activities and its reIa-
ton to her part and function in the so
cial scheme, stating that. personally.
she had never hitherto been a suffra-
gist, but had always thought that
when the time for women TO enter a
larger field of usefulness and arrived
IL would be made so clear that the
feminine social body could not mis-
take its meaning.
And that time had now come she
said, through the evolution of social
conditions and their concentration in
the Progressive declaration of prin-
ciples.
Join in Discussion.
| N uiSSuSbioh pcitiHtuI IO these
points followed and was entered in
to by the majority of those present,
the speakers including Mrs. David w.
Dennis, Mrs. ]. M. Judson, Mrs. w.
! X. Bradbury, Mrs. John Nicholson,
Mrs. Emily Yeo. Mrs. Herman Deuter,
Miss Abbie Price, Miss Foulke, Mrs.
Joseph n. Hodgin, Miss Rose Dougan.
Mrs. Frank Stephens, Mrs. NJ. F. John
ston, Mrs. III. II. Huntington, Mrs
Charles NJ. Druitt, Mrs. A. L. Bern
hardt, Mrs. Mary Foulke. OF Spring
Grove, Miss White. and others
! Miss Dousan Interests.
Miss Dougan interested her audi
ence by stating that she had frequent
ly voted in her home in Colorado and
thought no more of ''trotting down to
purpose That she voted independent
ly of the masculine members of her
household since she and her father en-
tertained different political views but
that this had not conduced TO any lack
of amity in their relations
Mrs. Deuter. of the Salvation Army,
spoke effectively of the work that
could be accomplished by women here
in Richmond if they had the franchise
to weld as a lever toward the eradica-
tion OF vicious conditions, referring to
the fact that IL was not only in the
mills and industrial institutions uf
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