Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-02
SUFFRAGE SPEAKERS
FROM EVERY WALK
Exodus of Workers to the Noun
tains and the Sea-
shore.
Many to Campaign Under the Aus
pices of Congressional Union
This Summer.

Suffrage sirens are swarming to the
seashore and the stump speakers are
scaling the mountains to preach the
doctrine of equal rights under the
auspices of Congressional Union.
.Afoot in automobile and horse
back. they are going TO the mountain
resorts From factory workers. to col
lege graduates. to social arbiters. to
duchesses. he ranks of the speakers
for the cause" are being hlled There
are plenty of contrasts
Mrs. John Jay White. the plutocratic
society leader of Washington, is now
arranging a suffrage section for the
fremen's muster and July parade in
Tannersville " Y She and Miss Ruth
Aston Moves are making campaign
in automobiles through the Catskin
mountain resorts and are planning for
"a horseback tour later. in which they
are to be Joined by Mrs. Jessie Hardy
Stubs
Mrs. Stubs left today for Norfolk
TO start the summer campaign. She is
to be the house guest of Mrs. Pauline
Adams, a prominent society woman,
and a luncheon is to be given in her
honor tomorrow. She is to address the
throngs at the races. Later in the
summer she is to carry on campaign
through the lake resorts of Minnesota.
Bathing Suit Rallies at Beach.
Miss Mary Brennan, the Brown Uni
versity graduate. has just returned
from hundred and thirty-mile
tramp through the Blue hills of Fir-
ginia. where she went as exhibit A of
a woman who has the voting privilege
III Seattle, Wash. She left Washington
this afternoon with more than 100 suf-
frage pennants and d big umbrella in
the suffrage colors, which she is to
set up on the beach at Atlantic City.
She plans to hold bathing SUIT r.,.llcs
and one of her stunts is to establish
life-saving station of expert woman
swimmers. who will be constantly on
guard to show the aquatic prowess of
the women who seek the right to vote.
Miss Brennan is to start the Pennsyl-
Nanla campaign tonight with mass
meeting IN the city hall plaza in Phila-
delphia. She will be assisted by Miss
Anna NcCue. who will have charge of
the Pennsylvania campaign, and will
conduct a number of factory rallies.
Miss McCue has been a hosiery factory
yorker since she was thirteen years old.
Suffrage Quarters at Newport.
Miss Doris Stevens. executive secretary
of the Congressional Union. leaves on the
midnight train for Newport, where she
Will be the house guest of Mrs. o. H. P.
Belmont. She TO open a suffrage home
in the Newport summer colony, near the
marble palace of Mrs Belmont, and is
10 be assisted in the work by the Duchess
of Marlborough. only daughter of Mrs. Bel
mont. The camp align is to be climaXed
in a mass meeting in tine marble palace.
following the national conference on SUI
frage the middle of August Many promt-
nent society women have volunteered to
assist Miss Stevens in the work.
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congressional tariff leader. went to Will
mington. Del. yesterday to organize the
campaign in that state. She is to open
q branch Office of the Congressional Union
and will arrange suffrage rallies at all
the resorts in the Presidents own state.
She will be assisted in the work the
latter part of the summer by Miss
Dorothy Osborne. who has just Joined
the Congressional Union forces.
Others who are leading in the sum-
mer campaign are Mrs c. B. Mcknight
at Woodstock, Vt: Mrs. W. H. Blan-
ford. who has thrown open her home
in Moorehead City, n. c.. where Miss
Emily Perry will be in charge of the
summer campaign, and Miss Minnie E.
Brooke. who vii have charge of the
Rockville, Md. headquarters.
Goucher Grad in Charge Here.
During Mrs. Stubs absence the pub
hcity work of Congressional Union is
in charge of Miss Edith HanZsche, a
graduate This season from Goucher Col
lege, who is in charge of the research
work at the Washington headquarters.
This evening open-air meetings in
Washington will be started, and Will
contirue each evening during the sum-
mer Tonight the speeches will be made
at eth and II streets northwest, by Miss
Alice Paul. chairman of Congressional
Union: Miss Dorothy Osborne, who will
have charge of this work. and Mrs.
Minnie +. Brooke. president of the
Chevy Chase Suffrage Club.
Miss Osborne has just come from Mont
clair n J She is a graduate of Drexel
Institute. Philadelphia. and a daughter
of the famous handwriting expert At
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
birth of Susan b. Anthony she delivered