Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-05
women MAY VOTE
IN PINE BLUFF
Prominent Suffragettes to
Organize Branch of Polit-
ical Equality League
HOTEL PINES TODAY
Many Ladies OF This city Nav Join
i'll the Movement State
organization
HOTEL PINES TODAY

Pine Bluff is to have a branch OF
the Political Equality League.
AT leas'. the plans for such an
organization will be presented tC
them this afternoon at . o'clock. AT
the Hotel Pines, when several ladies
who are prominent in the oreanza-
tioI will meet with ladies of this city
| and seek TO convince them that the
proper ting is for woman to have
the ballot
AS an advance messenger of such
a movem ant letters have been "eceiy-
cd by several ladies from the state
president of the organization, Mrs
o. f. ellington, of Little Rock, who
is ANXIOUS that as many clubs be
formed As possible so that there may
be state organization, the effect of
which would be to secure national
recognition.
The meeting is to be held in the
parl1rs of the Hotel pines and while
1t is for the purpose of convincing
Pine Bluff young ladies' and matrons
that there is need of votes for women
there will not be hint of anything
like military, or forceful methods to
secure the ballot. 1t is held that
peaceful methods alone are to pre-.
hot hoe In
adopt is persuasion and logic, in
other words, that mere man is to be
shown that he is incapable of run
ming the voting machinery of the
country in proper manner, and
with this just slight inuendo or
yelled hint that in the years to come,
if women throughout the nation ar"
enfranchised, they will have enough
votes to cutvote the men, and COLI
troll the election machinery themselves
Just now the movement will take
in Pine Bluff is uncertain as yet. 1T
is known there are quite number
of ladies of the city who have been
interested in such a movement and
have watched the progress that wom-
en- have made in securing suffrage in
keen manner. And yet, on the
other hand, there are large number
of women who are decidedly opposed
to such movement. 1t is believed,
however, that there will at least be
the neuclus of a club formed in Pine
Bluff.
The ladies who will reach Pine
Bluff tomorrow morning and who will
speak in the afternoon, have attained
prominent mention as speakers, many
public officials going so far as to
say that hey have most convincing
argument Those who will come and
present the equal suffrage question
are Mrs. Ellington, Miss Julia Warn
err, Miss Margaret Fletcher and Mrs.
David Terry, all of whom are resi-
dents of Little Rock.
One of the etters in regard to this
movement in Pine Bluff and over the
state, is as follows:
Fl am writing to you in the inter-
est of Woman Suffrage, also sending
you under separate cover some itera-
ture and books on the subject.
1.-THE Arkansas State Organization
Committc, is very anxious to get
clubs enough organized to form a
state organization, thereby gaining
national recognition and state in
fluence.
"Most, if not every southern state,
has state organization, AID hope
soon to see Arkansas among them.
'At a recent conference in New
Orleans (Eovember 10th and 11th) an
organization was created known as
The Southern States Woman Suffrage
Conference, with Miss Kate Gordon
of New Orleans, as President, and
fourteen Vice-Presidents, Twelve OF
these women represent southern
states, and one from Oklahoma and
one from Washington. D. c.; One
of the main objects of this Associa-
ton is to devise ways and means to
carry on campaign in the South,
looking forward to getting our sew
eral States Legislature to amend our
Constitution so as to enfranchise
women, knowing full well II they
don't it will be thrust upon them by
the National Congress.