The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-18
State Suffragettes
Are Discussing Votes
for FlickertaiI1 omen
North Dakota Suffragettes Are Holding Enthul z>'e
sion in Fargo Today At the Civic Center y.s
Miss jeanette Rankin Montana Suffrage Leader DelNe
s~.c-~>s~s ed Rousing Speech For Big Campaign
Mrs Alice Nelson Page of Grand Forks North Dakoa's
Prominent Suffragette, Arrived This Afternoon

"tsection 2. The congress shall
have power, by appropriate legislation
TO enforce the provisions Of this ar
! ticle.' .%= - - :,
! "On May IA, the senate committee
Colorado, Chairman Sutherland OF
! Utah. Jones Of Washington, CIapp OF
minnesota, Catron Of New Mexico
Ransdell Of Louisiana, Hollis of New
hampshire, Owen Of Oklahoma and
! Ashurst Of Arizona, voted to report
favorably the Chamberlain resolution.
On June IA. Senator Ashurst submit
| ted to the senate the report of the
committee couched in terms that con-
stltute one of the strongest arguments
| Ior women suffrage ever heard in a
legislative body.
'This is the first time that a suf-
frage measure has ever received a
! unanimous favorable report in con-
gress. Never, moreover, has it been
reported to congress in which the
{ interests of women were so strongly
| represented as in the present one.
one fifth of the senate, one seventh
or the house, and one-sixth Of the
electoral vote come from suffrage
states Gncluding Illinois as suffrage
state). In four other states, Montana,
Nevada, North Dakota, and South Da-
kota, suffrage has passed the legisla-
ture and Will be voted on at referen-
dum In 1914. If it carries In each of
| these, it will mean that one-fourth of
the senate, one-seventh of the house,
and one-fifth of the electoral vote will
come from suffrage states. If it car
r1es in New York, New JERSEY and
pennsylvania. where it has passed one
legislature and must pass another be-
fore being submitted to the voters in
1915, there will then be more than one
third Of the senate, one-third of the
house, and more than one third of the
presidential electoral vote from the
suffrage states.
| :. In some of these cases it is pos
sible that suffrage may be defeated,
out on the other hand, many states
may, before 1916, follow the example
of Illinois and give the suffrage for
presidential electors by act of the
state legislature without waiting for
the slower method Of a state constitu-
tional. amendment, EE,.@ .,ul~s :.
with the immense political mower
conferred by the presence OF nearly
4,00O,O00 women voters, and with the
possibility, according to the present
campaign outlook, OF more than one
third of the electoral vote for the next
president, coming from suffrage
states, it would seem that the suffrage
movement has reached a position
which should enable it very quickly
to obtain the passage of a federal
amendment through congress. When
, once passed by congress the securing
of the ratification by three -fourths of
the state legislatures would be rela-
lively easy compared with the present
necessity of converting the majority
of the male population of all the
! states. This is illustrated by the his
tory OF the enfranchisement Of the
negro. Negro suffrage, as is we'll
known, was voted down again and
again In the referendum of the vari-
Gus states, but when taken up by
congress and submitted to the state
legislatures, 1t was soon passed"
Mrs. UeIand Speaks.
After the reports Mrs. Andrea Ue-
land OF Minneapolis outlined the plan
Of the Minnesota suffrage workers in
a talk on the Organization According
to Political Parties.
MIS-. Ueland's ideas of dividing the
state into, districts will be used by the
North Dakota organization.
Discussions.
Splendid discussions were given by
the various delegates, Mrs. Silver Ser
umgard of Devils Lake giving a short
talk on How to Gain Affiliations From
Other Organizations; Church Auxili-
aries. Mrs. W. Fl. Best of Bismarck;
w. c. T. u, Mrs. r. M. Pollock of
targo; Secret Societies, Mrs. w. l..
Stockwell Of Fargo; Nurses Organizza- :
tions, Miss Barbara, Hazel of Fargo.
and College Organizations, Miss Per-
ley Of Moorhead. = -. : .
Luncheon Served. I
At Yn0p fba !,
FOR. luncheon, which was served at the
Civic Centre by the local Votes for
Women league. Mrs. Gilbert Haggert
was in charge and the committee con
sisted OF Mesdames Waldron, Putnam,
Thompson and Kindred.
Mrs. Page to Speak.
Reports Of the nominating commit :
| tee are being heard this afternoon. and
also the reports of the suffrage clubs
jamestown, New Rockford, Minot.
Dickinson, Grand Forks and Fargo.
The principal speakers Of the after
noon are Mrs. Alice Nelson Page OF
Grand Forks, Mrs. Fl. l.. Bolley and
Miss Irma Irwin. The election of Of
ficers will be held the last thing this
afternoon
Meeting Last Night.
The first session of the annual state
suffrage day was held at the Civic
Centre last evening Mrs. Andreas
Ueland of Minneapolis, a prominent
suffrage worker of Minnesota, and Miss
Rankin of Missoula, Mont, who is aid
ing the North Dakota women in their
campaign for suffrage, were the prin-
cipal speakers Of the evening. Mrs. Ue-
land talked on the general subject OF
Woman Suffrage, telling what effect
the enfranchisemen of the women will
have upon the advancement of the ma
ton. Il
Delegates Present.
The delegates presen- we're: Mrs
Elizabeth M. Buttz, Devils Lake; sIrs.
w. S. Lauder, Wahpeton; Mrs w. I'll.
Allen, Fargo; Mrs. r. e.. Kindred.
Fargo; Mrs. G. G. Creegan, Fargo; !;
Mrs. Helen deLendrecie, Fargo; Mrs.
Anna Kirk. Nelson Co.; Mrs. r.. Glen :
denning, Wimbledon; Mrs. "A. Y. More,
Fargo; Miss Helen Bascon, Wimble-
don; Mrs. w. Fl. Bodenstab. Bis
rnarck; Mrs. 0. A. Hagen, Larimore;
Mrs. WI. Halbrook, Rugby; Mrs. A.
Wartner Harvey; Mrs. &. ID. Boise.
Fargo; Mrs. e. G. McLain, James
town, Mrs. Kate Glaspell, jamestown: !:
Mrs G. f. Putnam, Jamestown: Mrs.
H. T.. Bolley, Fargo Beulah Amidon,
Fargo; Mrs. H. G. Rasmussen, Wah-
peton;F Mrs. n. D. Casey. Dickinson; !;
Mrs. H. FL. Aaker Fargo; Mrs Abbie
Best, Fargo: Mrs. J. Il. Carpenter.
Fargo Miss Pearl Kirk, Fargo; Mrs.
H. b. Foster, Lakota; Mrs. Grace
Serumgard Devils Lake; Mrs. Lizzie
Hoiast, Buxton; Mrs. Kate Wilder,
Fargo.