Arizona republican., 1912-09-26
SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
 GROWING RAPIDLY
Hundreds Added to the List at Savoy
 Theater Meeting.

There were many hundred signers on the membership list circulated at the suffrage meeting at the Savoy Theaer on Tuesday afternoon by the county equal suffrage league.
 The meeting was presided over by Mrs Munds and Mrs. O'Neil The speakers were Senator Davis. MT. Cog gins, Mrs Laura Gregg Cannon, Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Bradford
 Mrs. Munds presided during the or ganization of the county league and the following officers were elected.
 Prdsieenr, Mrs. Eugene Brady O'Neil.
 Vice President, Mrs. w. s. Bradford. Treasurer. Mrs Dwight B. Heard.
 Recording Secretary Mrs Ruth Bid lings
 The meeting was well attended.
 Senator Davis spoke in campaigning: he said: We know why we want the ballot. the question is how to get it. The thing we have to do is to get our case before the jury and the jury hap pens to be the me who have the bat lot There are two things we must overcome: one is the indifference of the women of Arizona and the other is that awful thing of prejudice, that has stood in the way of progress, but we have overcome other arguments and it has been done so many thOus- ands of times we can overcome this
 Mrs. Phillips said: Six states have given suffrage to the women. It is significant fact that these are all west ern states dominated by progressive
 
 women will have the legal right to cast the ballot in the coming presidential election Are the women of Arizona less intelligent, less broad-mlnded, less spirited than the women of these sis ter states? The women of Arizona pay taxes on all property they own thus contributing to the general revenue, yet they have no voice on the pubhc eX- penditure of this public fund Men and women working together can do more good than either sex can do alone. There are eight million women wage earners in the United States and only one -forthieth percent of the inmates of jails and penitentiaries are women.
 Colorado has the most advanced leg islation of any state for the protection of the home and it is interesting to note that we have the testimony ot Judge Ben B Lindsay and others. The laws passed for the past sixteen years for men, women and children in Colo rado could not have been passed had they not had woman suffrage.
 Mrs Bradford spoke on ways anu means of campaigning She advised the women to work and organize com nlittees in their own neighborhoods and not to take time for pink teas. but Co study subjects that are interesting, eS- pecia1ly on suffrage.
 Mir. Coggins spoke on the lines oi taxation without representation anu said that it was altogether unjust ana wrong for women to own property ana have no voice in the taxation of that property. He congratulated the Wo- men of Maricopa county on their good work and hopes to see a very strong victory in the fall election.
 Mrs Laura Gregg Cannon spoke on the work of the California women and said in part: That the California wom- en sounded the keynote of victory when they said We will run our own campaign ourselves" There is no edu- cator like responsibility. We may make mistakes, but we will profit by those mistakes and we will learn not