Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-06
SUFFRAGE HAS
SUPPORTERS HERE
Local Chaper of Political
Equality League of Ark
ansas Is Organized
NJ u CHI ENTHUSIASM
DigniiieG and anti NiIitancy Campaiyn
TO BE Nagph Addresses
Heard.

! Pine Bluff now has full flsG@e.l
chapter of the Political Equality
-. League d Arkansas.
! At Least. The ground work for such
an organization was laid YESTERDAY
afternoon il the parors of the Hotel
! Pines and Ivy the time the next meet
ing is he'1 Wednesday afternoon in
the Cham yer Of Commerce, as plann-
ed. there will have been adopted a
| constituti)h and bylaws and Il full
| quota of officers will have been
selected It is also expected at thi,
time that the membership will
be largely increased, since "A commit
/ tee has been formed to secure MEM
bers.
The fac. that three of the most
prominent suffrage workers of the
state, and one of them the state pre-
sident and organizer, were present,
lent an attraction to the meeting ana
accounted for an added portion OF
enthusiasm displayed. Mrs. l.. X
Land acton as mistress of ceremonies
and introduced as the first speaker,
Mrs. Alice Ellington, president of the
state organization, and one of the
foremost workers for the cause.
In the beginning of her address,
Mrs. Ellington spent some moments
outlining what has been accomplished
in Arkansas and said that the time
had come when women were fully
able to DO anything that man at
| tempts, and that one of the prime
reasons for advocacy of the euua:
suffrage light was for the benefit of
women and children. She declared
that the ballot is the only adequate
means CT. lettering conditions.
Mrs. ellington explained that there
is an ardent desire to have an organi-
zation in each county SO that the
state organization may be perfected.
Miss Warner 1alks.
Miss Julia Warner OF Little Rock,
who has long been an ardent sup
porter of the cause, was the next
speaker and that Miss Warner is an
able speaker goes without question.
She is one of the few who really
possesses wit which she can use to
advantage as a public speaker. She
reviewed the strides that women have
made in the course of the past five
years, how at first those who were
disposed to sheer and deride, have
come TO take the movement serious
ly.
"Those who are working for the
cause of equal suffrage must forget
their Individual selves, must become
machines for the cause" she declared.
'Women trust not get mad, must not
yeer from the object in view, must
not take to clannish ideas, or
espause other causes, but must work
always, only for, votes for women.
We must pound away on this eternal
issue until the victory has been won.
am sure that the club and social
work that women have done of recent
years has laid the foundation OF
greater things and has fitted them
to handle the ballot in all serious
ness. Tie old day when women
were supposed to think, but not
speak, and were not to have inter-
ests outside the home and social life
has disappeared and there is a
broader field now for them"
It was also pointed out in the
course of her address and that of
Mrs. Ellington. that the crying evil
of white slavery will be mitigated If
not entirely Obliterated, when women
are empowered with the ballot. sta
tistics were referred to, in order 20
show the extent OF the evil, and it
was also pointed out that Little Rock
and Hot Springs were two of the
worst hot beds of white slavery IN
the county. For this reason alone,
it was said, the women of Arkansas
should have the ballot.
The objection which has been rails
ed that women OF questionable
character might seek to use the bal
lot was secuted as unnecessarily
alarming. 1t was pointed out that
such will not seek the ballot and