The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-08

Organized enorts against the amendment became *
prominent that ii is claimed they began TO drive thu
better element of the people into the ranks OF tn.
suragsts. and here is where the National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage makes. its appearance
The story is thus told in the Anaconda Standard:
up to this time the opposition has come
chiefly from the liquor interests, but now ma
tonal movement has entered the situation, and
the FIRST thing that has emerged its attention is
the elimination of the liquor. Interest," activity,
and especially that of the organ Of the Montana
Protective Association, the contentjon having been
that such opposition doing the cause Of equal
suffrage more good than harm II was because
of this that Mrs. Arthur Dodge. president Of the :
National Anti-Suhrage Association. sent TO Butte
and other Montana cities her personal repSe:enta-
tive, Miss c. E. Markeson of Columbus, Ohio. to
look the situation over and arrange for the con-
duct of the anti-suffrase campaign by the women
themselves 80,
"Her first effort in Butte was to shut off the
activity of the Forum, and she had a long inter-
view with the publishers who. il is said, quite
agreed with her in the proposed course of cam
Markeson devoted most of her attention to the
consideration of this idea of eliminating the prom
inence of the liquor interests in the opposition
to woman suffrage, and she met number of men
who influential in the liquor business. Impress
ing upon them the necessity OF the anti-sufragc
Campaign being conducted entirely apart from the
to let the women conduct their own fight" e
The National Ferun's Statsnsat
The next day the National Forum confirmed this
account and said:
publishers of the National Forum had agreed to
Miss Markesons proposed course of campaign
and had agreed to change the policy of the paper
TO suit her wishes is entirely inaccurate, inasmuch
as nothing was agreed upon except Miss Markc-
agreed to return to Butte with two or three
other ladies about the first of March, and at that
consideration and possible approval for corpora
ton Miss Markeson suggested that the interview
and her mission to Montana be kept strictly con-
fdential and secret We kept our faith with her,
and we do not understand the motive for the
wide publicity given her movements here"
The paper then goes to say that there is no
to try to fool the people and that the liquor in
terests will make open fight against the amend
ment. Miss Clara E. Markeson is the travelling
ganizer of the National Association Opposed to Wom
an Suffrage. Miss Jeanette Rankin. chairman OF the
State central committee of the Montana Suffrage AS
ISOLATION and experienced campaigner says They
are using similar methods in Nevada and North and
South Dakota" The Woman's Journal says: "In-
timation that the anti-sursgsts ready to ally
themselves with the liquor interests had already been
had from the activities of Miss Markeson and Miss
Minnie Bronson in Nevada. Their appearance in Reno
was almost Simultaneous with the first expressed OPP
position of the vested and vicious interests of the
State through of its leading newspapers
There is nothing new in any of this except that
/ has been proved. No who is familiar with the
'arious woman suffrage campaigns which have been
made has doubted that an understanding existed
'etween the organized forces of the women anti
uffragists and the liquor interests In the recent
Michigan campaign it is claimed that the literature
ssued by the Anti-suffrase Society was sent by the
ecretary of the Retail Liquor Dealers Association
the newspapers to be published on the front page"
nd the bill ordered to this association. 1t is
aid that of thousands of dollars were spent this