The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-04-30
MISS MCDOWELL TO SPEAK
Noted Chicago Settlement Worker to
Be Principal Speaker at Observance
Of National Suffrage Day in Kenosha
ITO Propose Resolution to Congress.

Kenosha will take part in the nation
wide suffrage celebration on May the
second, when Miss Mary Mcdowell,
head resident Of the University of
Chicago settlement will speak on
''Mothering Municipality" at the
suffrage rally on Saturday afternoon,
at the Methodist church. Miss Nc
DoweIl, who has lived in the stock
yards district for twenty years, is es--
pecially known for her successful cam
paign on the garbage disposal question.
For years the clay-holes in that dis
trict had been the dumping place for
all the refuse of Chicago. In speak
ing of the part played by the new
women voters in bringing about action
by the city council on the garbage
question, she says, elm the twinkling
Of an eye women have become munich
pal housekeepers. All down the ages
women have been chasing dirt and see
ing dirt; as voters they will see that
a lot of cleaning is done.
The object of the nationwide cele-
bration is to impress congress with the
favorable sentiment in the United
States for an amendment to the federal
constitution, enfranchising women. On
the 10th of last March the suffrage bill
in the senate received a majority of
the votes cast, but failed to receive the
three-fourths necessary for its passage
This same bin has been reintroduced
in the senate by Senator Bristow, and
is again before congress.
Whatever form this suffrage demon
stration takes, in every village, town
and city in the United States, the fol
lowing resolutions will be passed and
sent to congress:
1--WE the citizens of Kenosha, have
assembled today to voice our demand
that women as citizens of the United
such citizenship.
We congratulate the four million
women voters who have won their
right to ballot in ten states, and con-
fdently expect to see five more states
under the franchise banner after the
November elections.
We hereby declare that suffrage for
women has become a national as well
as local issue, and we urge our sena-
tors and representatives in congress to
enact federal legislation which will in
sure to women equal rights with men.
Thereby be it Resolved, that:
This meeting calls upon the congress
of the United States to proceed with
out delay to remove the barriers which
prevent American women from the ex-
ercise of full franchise, and to make
our country, not government in which
half the people are denied the right of
participation, but in truth and reality
a democracy.
Resolved, that:
We urge the passage of the Bristow-
Mondeu resolution, which is in sub
stance the resolution favored by suf
frage workers in this country for many
years and which reads as follows:
Section l. The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account of
sex.
Section 2. The congress shall have
power by appropriate legislation to en-
force the provisions of this article.
Resolved that:
A copy of this resolution be sent to
every member of the United States
senate and house of representatives of
this state"
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford viii speak on
the federal amendment and offer the
resolutions to the meeting. The rally
win be opened by the Shubert club
chorus.