The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-24
SUFFRAGE NOTES

Madison. Wis, Nov, 24.-Nrs. Hen
ry NJ. Youmans, Of Waukesha, was re
elected president of the Wisconsin
Woman's Suffrage association yester-
day. Other officers chosen were: First
vice president, Miss IONA Gale, Port
age; second vic president, Mrs. W.
H. Leek. Beloit; recording secretary,
Mrs. James Rogers, Milwaukee,; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Edna Chey-
noweth, Madison; treasurer, Miss f.
M. Robinson, Kenosha; first auditor,
Miss Gwendolyn B. Willis, Milwaukee;
second auditor, Mrs. Ben Hooper, Osh-
kosh. Delegates who will attend the
national suffrage convention in Wash
ington are Rev. Olympia Brown,
Racine; Miss Anne Baul, La Crosse;
Miss Mary Conner, Windsor; Mrs.
Robert M. La Toilette, Madison; Mrs.
d. F. Hooper, Oshkosh. The alternates
will be Mrs. H. B. Holton, Milwoukee;
Miss Elizabeth Upham, Milwaukee,;
Miss Julia Lovejoy, GAINESVILLE, and
Mrs. G. A. Hipke, Milwaukee. In the
report of the legislative committee
given by Miss Ada James, Of Richland
Center, said: 1.-THE liquor interests
take all the credit for our defeat and
we acknowledge it. They have defined
the issue and thrown down the gaunt-
let and we are towards If we do not
fight it out on this line" Mrs. James
warned the women Of the state to
guard their interests by sending good
men to the legislature.
oxford, Eng, Nov. 24.-Vengeance
was promptly visited on the Isuffra-
gettes who set fire to a great lumber
yard on the Thames near Oxford.
While the lumber was still burning
the offices Of the s~uffragette society
in this city were raided and wrecked
by a mob. All the furniture and a
large collection Of suffrage literature
were thrown into the streets. The
damage done by the lumber yard fire
amounted to 100000. Post cards and
placards left on the scene indicated
that the blaze was set by a militant
arson squad. Inscriptions on the pla-
cards Included: Send the bills to
Democracy, never has been q menace
to property" a quotation from Lloyd
Georges speeches. Lloyd-George. is
here on a visit. - " #E .
Mrs c.. S. Washburne, formerly Miss
Virginia Brooks, known as "the Joan
of Arc of West Hammond" is to be a
visitor in st. Paul for a few days.
After her cleanup Of the Indiana town,
she Used her experience gained in writ
ing a story, which she printed in book
form under the caption Of The Little
Lost Sister. The book has been
tdramatized, and 1t is to witness this
play for the first time that the author
ess ome to st. Paul. Mrs. Wash
burne was perhaps the most watched
woman in America during her fight in
West Hammond. Since that time she
has married c. S. Washburne. Ar
rangements NAV be- made to have Mrs.
Washburne lecture before the Welfare
Leagues at the luncheon Tuesday. While
the fight against the city officials of
West Hammond. who, she says, were
"grafters," perhaps was the most no.
ticeable OF Mrs. Washburne's battles,
friends and relatives a that her life,
from the earliest childhood, has been
Of the fighting order. During her early
life Mrs. Washburne, from the first a
sickly child, found 1t hard to procure
an education She was born at Ken
wood, suburb of Chicago. After years
OF fight against Ill health, she startled
Chicagoans by her interpretative dane
ing. Music, instrumental and vocal,
also occupied a. part of her time and
in these she was considered exception
al. On the death of her father, Mrs.
Washburne inherited a number Of lots
in West Hammond. Taxes were eating
UP the property, and she resolved to
investigate. In November, 1910, she.
moved to the town and soon after an
nounced that she believed the officials
to be grafters and started a cleanup
crusade. Arrests, threats of bodily
harm, printing a newspaper, managing
a political party and naming a reform
mayor, later elected, were things that
followed in rapid order. The last was ac-
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