Arizona republican., 1916-10-29

behind the woman's party campaign are the same women who for four years have been working quietly to make suf frage an issue in this 'country-Alice Paul. Lucy Burns and Anne Martin.
 Politicians have not watched the suf- frage campaign al Washington close ly: they have not noticed the tide of public sentiment rising higher and higher in the last few years because of these three quiet figures directing affairs from the Washington head quarters. Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss Lucy Burns. vice chair man of the same organization, and Miss Anne Martin of Nevada, the plucky suffragist who freed a state and was unanimously elected chairman of the woman's party at Chicago by the women of the twelve suffrage states. are the three powers behind the throne. The "watchful waiting" of President Wilson takes on an aspect of feverish impatience beside the quiet work, the resourceful prodding Of the public that these three young generals have kept up.
 These women are the youngest suf fFage leaders in America. At the pres ent time they stand at the head of an organization that has sprad over thir weight states inside of four years. has thousands of adherents and which at Washington maintains an amazingly clever press service, a printing plant, edits q magazine with a circulation which grows by leaps and bounds weekly through the effort of the mem bers alone. and plans a constant stream of demonstrations and "events' an chored to the national suffrage cause. IL is these events" which have made the federal suffrage idea and propagan- da familiar to every intelligent woman in the country.
 Of the trilogy Miss Alice Paul Is the
 most amazing perhaps, of the three | leaders. Hers is the mind that plans. ! No sooner Is one great suffrage event" in progress than Miss Paul. 1 with the acutest sense of publicity [ values. Is planning the next step that | is to attract that great sluggish crea-
 ure, the public. to think about the en- franchisement of the women of this
 nation. It was Miss Paul who created 1 the first woman voters convention at the San Francisco exposition, an event
 which awoke western women. it was
 Miss Paul who built the first "Suf-
 frage Exhibit" ever shown at an expo
 sition and got il placed in the educa |
 tional palace a-triumph of finesse One of the exhibits" was the record of every congressman on suffrage-a
 stroke that caused protest from the
 politicians of the exposition. but which
 was carried out over their protests and
 informed thousands of individuals dur
 ing the life of the fair of just what
 their own representatives were failing
 to do for their women constituents
 Miss Paufs master stroke was per
 haps the Suffrage Special idea which
 has since been initiated and will be
 again. when twenty three of the most
 brilliant women in this country in the
 battle for equal rights made a twelve
 thousand mile run through the sui
 frage states appealing to free womer
 to stand together regardless of politics
 and put suffrage first" This event
 was the prelude of the present racy
 campaign
 Miss Burns. the brilliant Vassar girl
 a student at Edinburgh and Bonn Uni.
 versailles. is in charge of the pungent
 and logical literature of the Congres
 sional union which in the last foul
 years has papered the country; ant
 also editor of The Suffragist, the only
 magazine devoted to the federal sui. frage Idea alone.
 Miss Anne Martin is product of tn, west In Nevada they call her "th, little governor" and Governor Anne. Any minute she asked anything of hel own state, the state she is given tho credit of adding to the suffrage group she could be governor or congressman or any other little things she fancied In fact one of the future jokes on con- gress that Nevada is some day goinl to stage will be the sending of diminu tive Governor Anne to the senate. Al chairman of the national woman. party planning the strategic moves il all the suffrage states against thu democratic president and his supper in congress, she has proven herself general of no mean order
 This trilogy has no certain hope O. defeating a great party the first sho out of the box" They do know tha they have gotten under the skin O every politician in the country; tha he unmistakably knows their powel and their honesty in spite of lou, press talk and public protest. The, hhow that their power IS crowns one; that their first campaign ha been amazing success, and that it hal taught the leaders of both parties quite regardless of result. that women with limited resources but the highes purpose-are able now to mt mn .