The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-02-12
SEES KENOSHA As A LEADER
Chicago Woman Writer Declares That
Suuahble over Election Of Delegates
Here Is First Of state Wide Fight
on the Suffrage Question.

The Kenosha Woman s Club is given
wide prominence by the suffrage editor
of the Chicago Tribune this morning
land it is declared in an article in that
paper that the first gun in a statewide
dight for the election Of delegates to
the biennial convention was fred in
RKenosha. The article has been decid-
Aedly interesting to the women of the
Kenosha club. 1t is reprinted in full
Jas follows:
! "The first gun of state wide fight
against naming suffragists as dele
sgates to the biennial convention Of the
fNational Federation Of Women s Clubs
twas fred at Kenosha last week when
Sthree leading anti -suffragists resigned
sfrom the Kenosha Woman IS club. Mrs.
H. G. Simmons, Mrs. James Cavanagh
Aand Mrs n A. Rowe, three Of the
hwealthiest and most influential mem
tbers of the club, have asked to have
Etheir names stricken from the mem.
ibership.
\ It is understood that certain dele
hgates to the biennial in Chicago in
kEAne viii try to have the club women
go on record for suffrage. A resolu.
Etioh indorsing suffrage will be intro
Iduced and strong effort will be made
ITO have Ut adopted. That the more
conservative element will fight it to
tbe finish, it is stated, there is no
doubt. It is expected there will be q
repstition of the battle ON the floor of
che convention at San Francisco, with
only hotter firing line.
Suffragistsa are Delegates.
THE suffragists are naming women
9rom their own ranks TO represent them
sat the Biennial, so that the adoption
Of Sthey suffrage resolution may not be-
Sbalbed..S The antifsuffragists are work
Mng lustSas hard to fiji the convention
with women hostile to the measure
TFouble sbegan an the Kenosha Won
sBxEss Club when the executive board
tasleed theRmenIbeSs TO make recommen-
hations forethe delegates to be sent TO
athe biennjal. The suffrage members
(which form a majority of the club,
manned Miss Harriet Balm, staunch
ssuffragist, the president of the Keno
sha Political Equality League.
Partisans of Note Indignant.
\ When the announcement of the dele
gate and alternates was made by the
president Of the woman 3 club at it's
last meeting the suffrage members
were astonished and indignant to find
that all three--Mrs. George Eddy, Mrs.
Hazel Lance and Mrs. Peter Fisher
were of the dyed in the wool variety
of antis.
The suffragsts Immediately demand
ed to know whether the action of the
board in ignoring their recommended
tions were constitutional Visitors be-
ing present, the excited women, though
ablaze with indignation, moved that
the business be put off until the
next meeting.
''Antis' Consult Lawyers.
The suffragists declare that the mat
ter will be put to a vote at the next
Injecting and that their choice, Miss
Balm, win be elected, while Mrs. L.
pD. Graves, the president of the Wom-
bans Club, and strongly anti, asserted
THE matter is settled.
"'I took our constitution to two at
torneys and they declared the board
had perfect right to name the dele
lgate,'' she declared. "The board has
been naming delegates for twenty one
years and it will go ON naming them
as long as l am president
While Miss Balm has been urging the
club, which now includes only art and
literature departments, to broaden into
civic work, Mrs Simmons, Mrs. Lance
and Mrs. Rowe have fought her good
naturally.
Old Friendships Shattered.
1t was not until Miss Balm openly
opposed Mrs. Lance's appointment
that these women, who had been school
girl friends at Kemper hall, became
entranged. They have remained hos
tile and silent ever since The women
adj live within two blocks. Now they
'detour to avoid meeting.
cit is merely the elimination of a
disagreement which has lasted for sew.
eral years, said Miss Balm. 81 have
thought that the club should broaden
its activities. Art and literature are
all very well, but there are other
things. I havesno personal feeling in
the matter.
"The meeting will be thrashed out
lat the next meeting'
Mrs. Graves, the president, denies
that there was any thought of the suf.
frage issue when the delegate and her
alternates were named.
cit just happened that Mrs. Eddy
aud her alternates are anti-sufragists, =