The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-30
HAWLEY PLACED IN
BAD POSITION

The credit for having put the ALL
in "H-ALL-EH" may be fairly given
to the Congressional Union for Wo-
man outrage. Although the Rcpub-
lican and Progressive parties have de-
rid2d and opposed the platform Of
blanket endorsement of President
Wilson and all the Democratic polio
les, it remained for the Congressional
Union to show up the insincerity OF
the Democratic appeal
Ever since February 3, 1914, when
the House cauCuscd on the question
the rigidly enforced policy of the
Democratic party has been to block
all legislation on the question of equa!
suffrage and to prevent vote on the
is5ro Mr.. Underwood, the Demo
cratic leader of the House stated On
shc floor at that time not only was he
personally opposed to it, out thar the
democratic party was opposed 10 it
as party measure and in accurd with
the principles of the Democratic
party.
The Congressional Union pointed
out upon entering their Idaho cam
paign that Mr.. Hawley was unequivoc-
ally pledged to support this as well
as all the other policies of the Demo
cratic administration and he now
stands, for the first time, in the I'M
comfortable position of either admit
ting that he will work against the
federal cnfranchiScment of women Ga
position which would cost him the
support Of large numbers of the Dem
ocratic women voters of Idaho) OF
else, of repudiating his blanket plat.
form upon which he has been run.
| ming. The Congressional Union very
pointedly asks IF Governor Hawley
| has a mental reservation in his mine
with regard to the Democratic policy
toward equal suffrage, who knows
what other mental reservations he
may have toward the other policies O
the Democratic party"
On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Helena
Hill Weed, Congressional Unior
organizer, in charge of the Idaho
campaign, addressed large audience
in the Boz Theatre upon women il
Industry and the State" She gave al
extended account of the results tC
women, as a class, of the industrial
and social revolution of the last hal
century, and pointed out that mas
much as bad industrial conditions
low wages, unequal competition, vice
crime, the liquor traffic and the raw
ages of social and industrial disease
could not be confined to state lines 81
legislation for equal suffrage through
| which women are to secure anchor
ration of their condition as a elias
must be accomplished through fedora
legislation and that to deny or della,
such legislation is to perpotuate in
justice. She showed that so long a
the Democratic party was in power n,
legislation for equal suffrage was pos
sible, and therefore practical womel
of all parties, who felt that enfranch
isement of women was fundamental t.
all reform, especially with refenrenc
to women and children, had bee,
forced into this campaign against tn
return of Democratic candidates 70
both houses of Congress.
She gave long list of inhuentia
Democratic women who were work
ing in this campaign against thei
own party, including Mrs, Cham
Clark and Mrs. Annie Pitzer of Colo
RADIO, wife and sister of the Demo
cratic speaker, Mrs. Glendower Evan
of Boston, who stumped the countr
for Wilson in 1912; Senator Hele
Ring Robinson of Colorado, Mrs
Harvey w Wiley, wife of the pur
food expert and some fifty othe
| Deuocrati- women Of national note