The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-09-13
SUFFRAGE fight
TO BEGIN TODAY
Congressional Union VIII In
fold Campaign Plans at
Rally Here.
TOUR STATES TOMORROW
Women to Take Stump in the Middle
West Against Democratic oppO-
nents in Congress.
ny MRS. JESSIE HARDY STUBS

ny MRS. JESSIE HARDY SrUBBs,
The Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage will begin its active fall cam
paign today, at a meeting at the resi-
dence Of Col and Mrs. II. F. BIount,
Thirty-First and r streets. when Miss
Alice Paul, chairman Of the Congrsssion-
al Union will lay before the committee
OF workers the full plans for the fail
work.
The meeting is to be held on the beauti-
fuI lawn Of Col. Blounts residence In
Georgetown. with a committee OF promi-
nent women in charge, among whom will
be Mrs. +. w. MondelI. wife Of Repre-
sentative Mondell of Wyoming. Mrs.
Charles W. Bell. wife Of Representative
Bell, OF California. Mrs. Ellis Logan,
president OF the District Of Columbia
Federation Of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Har-
vel Wiley, and Mrs. II. F. BIount. hostess
OF the occasion. An appeal will be made
for contributors toward the expenses Of
the work in the West. and workers Of
the Congressional Union feel sure Of the
same generous and whoIe-hearted re-
spouse they always have met with on
former occasions.
Cooperation As Keynote.
Hearty cooperation in the policy Of the
Congressional Union has been shown by
individuals and suffrage organizations all
over the country. and many States are
sending organizers into the field for the
six weeks Of the election campaign. The
workers start on their journey to the
Far West on Monday. September a
and wonderful results are expected in
every State where the appeal OF the
Congressional Union is carried
4 word in explanation OF the ideals and
policy OF this organization may not be
amiss. as there never has been any or
ganization OF women in the country
whose active and Intelligent work In the
field Of national politics has so awakened
the interest Of the entire country. In
the first place there are at present two
suffrage amendments before Congress. one
providing for the absolute sweeping
away or the sex barrier which at pres
ent disfranches women OF all but ten
States in the Union. This amendment
has been the accepted means of enfran-
ChIsement Of all the women in the suf-
frage examinations of America since the
first suffrage convention held in Seneca
Falls. New York in 1885 Il was intro
duced into Congress in 1873 by Susan r
Anthony. the pioneer surfragist and
ever since has been kept before that
body
The second amendment before Congress
Is known as the Shafroth-Palmer resolu-
ton. and was decided on in March as a
substitute measure. and introduced into
Congress by members Of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association.
but has never had the sanction OF a Ma
tiOnal suffrage convention. as the last
convention. held I Washington in De-
cember unanimously Endorsed the old Sus-
an B. Anthony amendment, known as the
Bristow-Mondel resolution. and instructed
the suffrage associations OF the country
10 concentrate the measure.
The Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage, which was organized in Wash
!ngton in January. 1914. has unswervingly
given its allegiance 10 the old amend
msnt as the only sure means TO the desired
end. the acknowledgements OF women. as
the Shafroth-Palmer amendment merely
supplies another means of securing suf-
frage State by State
The decision OF the Newport conference
held in August g. was unanimous against
the ShafrOth amendment and a resoIu-
ton was passed urging all suffragists TO
concentrate on the Susan B. Anthony
amendment and demand its passage by
Congress. The Congressional Union has
had workers at the Capitol almost con-
stantly since lis existence in Washing
Ously blocked by the Democratic party
now in power in both Houses Of Con-
gress, therefore. after putting 1t up to
the Democratic party time after time
and being repeatedly refused. it is hold
ing that party responsibility. This policy
has the admiration and sanction Of bril-
liant political minds all over the United
States. and is acknowledged as the only
effective policy to gain the desired end.
he T1rT~E4 zzff1 al nj,
entire force into the suffrage States Of
the West. asking the cooperation Of the
women voters in keeping that party out
OF the powerful majority II has held in
the past year in both houses OF Congress.
many individual Democrats in
Congress are ayOwed friends Of woman
suffrage, the Congressional Union feels,
as they have so frequently demonstrated
their inability 10 work deCisively for its
measure against the majority vote of the
Democratic caucus, that the only feast
BILE thing to do is to attempt TO place a
majority in Congress which will not per-
sistently stand in the way OF every pro-
posed measure for the national enfran-
chisement of women.
There Is No Bitterness.
The Newport conference, composed Of
tn most prominent women in public life
in America lndorsed that policy. Women
who had gone to the conference mentally
opposing the proposed tactics Of the Con-
EressionaI Union came away convinced
OF its necessity and Of the impersonal at
titude Of the women engaged in this
There is no bitterness toward oppo-
nents and no personalities in the work
Of the Congressional Union in its fall
The women It sends into the
the righteousness of their cause, as well
as the necessity for the method taken to
vim more quickly the proposed amend
win more quickly the proposed amend
nent to the United States Constitution,
any State to discriminate
gainst any voter on account OF sex