Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-07
WHITE RIBBON"
SPECIAL STOPS
Nebraska Dry After 1916" is slO-
gan-Will Flood the State
with Speakers.
HUMNnL SENDS MANY FLOWERS

Nebraska dry after 1915" is the
slogan of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union, according TO the
assertion OF Miss Anna A. Gordon OF
Evanston, ILL.,, president OF the ma
tional organization. who on the
White Ribbon special. went west
through Omaha yesterday morning.
The White Ribbon special is bear
ing the national officers and dele
gates westward toward Seattle.
wash, where the national convention
OF the Woman's Christian Temper.
ance union will be held next week.
II arrived over the Northwestern.
Here cars carrying the convention
delegates from Nebraska, western
Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and
Missouri we're taken on and the train
that came in as one section over the
Northwestern went out as two over
the Union Pacific.
No Suffrage Talk.
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delegates there are numerous women who
are suffragists, but they are not going
to permit the question OF suffrage 10 en-
ter into the dolngs Of the convention.
Relative TO this, Mrs Deborah Livingston
national superintendent OF the Suffrage
association. asserted:
while all suffraglsts are not members
OF the union. all members are suffra-
l.fa "a
we stand. we Will not inject suffragist
Issues when we come together at Seattle.
Together with a large number OF wo-
men OF the suffrage organization We
have Just concluded campaigns in New
York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts. where we have fought the
liquor traffic and think with telling
results.
To stump the State.
"Suffragists everywhere are against
the liquor traffic and we will be heard
from in Nebraska In 1916. and
and we will stump the state" inter
jected Miss Gordon. president of the
Woman's Christian union. who was
standing by. I'm 1916 we will conduct
what the politicians would call a whirI-
wind campaign. We will have hundreds
Of speakers here. the best In the United
States. They will not only talk In the
cities and the towns. but they will be
found in the country. We are going to
canvass Nebraska as It was never cant
vassed before. We will have speakers
In every school district and our aim will.
be to put the state into the dry column.
I'VE look upon Billy Sunday. who IL
now holding meetings IN Omaha. as one
of our best and strongest assets. He Ia
starting people to thinking. and when we
come along next year with our follow-up
methods and arguments. II will not be as
hard as might be supposed to win tho
victory"
Met by Local Women.
At the Union station the White Ribbon
special was met by committee OF some
nifty local members of the womana
Christian Temperance union. From here
Mrs Edith shinrock accompanied the
party a. tho delegate from Douglas
county.
One OF the pleasant features In conueo-
ton with the stop OF the White Ribbon
special here was when twenty immense
bouquets OF flowers arrived as the gift
OF Park Commissioner Hummel. They
were flowers from the city parks and
there were enough OF them SO that they
furnished a small bouquet for nearly
every officer and delegate. Said Mrs.
Sara II. Hoge OF Lincoln. Va. assistant
national recording secretary, I'VE appre-
ciate these flowers very much" and when
told they we're the gift Of the city OF
Omaha. added THE heart OF Omaha 10
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