The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-10-06
SUFfRAC|STS CERTAIN
OF DEMOCRATS HELP
Leaders Resent Efforts to Have
Them Support Hughes.
WON BY WILSON'S SPEECH.

~ Have Come Here to Fight WITH
You,' He Tells National Convention.
"Wilson Voted For Suffrage; Has
HughesT Mrs. Graham of Idaho
Asks.
Western women who have had the
ballot equally with the men for several
years resent the interference of II OF
the factions of s%utfragists and the at
tempt to turn the suffrage cause into
an adjunct Of the Republican party.
They believe they know how to vote,
and they refuse to turn against the
Democrats. who have done so much for
their cause in their respective states.
This attitude is brought out clearly
in an interview by Nixoia Greeley
Smith. nationally prominent as a writer
on the staff of the New York World.
with Mrs. Alexander Thompson. Dem.
ocratic national committeeman from
Oregon. and Mrs. Theresa NJ. Graham
of Occur d'Alene. Ida.
Zone would Think" observed Mrs.
Thompson to Miss Greeley-Smith. that
If any instruction in suffrage matters
had to be given it would come from
the women who have won the vote
and do vote rather than from suffra.
gists in the east. who are still disfran-
chised. | am a young but ]
have been through three campaigns for
the vote In Oregon. In the final cam
naign we Won through the cooper
ton and help and belief in Us Of the
men Of Oregon.
Aided by Democrats.
I'VE have been voting only five
years. and we are still grateful to our
men. So when the Congressional Tn
ion sent speakers to Oregon to tell us
to vote against all Democrats we laugh
ed at them. Why. at the last election
they campaigned against George L.
Chamberlain, who introduced the first
suffrage bill in Oregon and who had
been the friend of the women all
through their fifteen years FIGHT"
81 agree with every word that Mrs
Thompson has spoken" declared Mrs
Graham, proxy member Of the Motif
cation committee from Idaho. 1.-The
conditions in my state are the same as
in Oregon. except that we have had
the vote for twenty years. aud it was
given to us without our having TO fight
tor it. The Congressional Union hag
speakers in Idaho now urminm us f.
Slaughter the Democrats and free on,
sisters in the east. How silly that is
Are women in the cast 50 foolish as t.
1e led away BY the mcre declaration |
If a candidate, unsupported by his
oarty, that he's personally in favor Of
| federal amnnd4@nt:
"Woodrow Wilson voted fer e,,ffrane |
Has Charter &. Hughes ever voted for !
suffrage? Wilson has dcne everYthjrc |
consistent with & belief in state riults,
7ne Of TIE func7n,er>at rr;uoi,|es o. |
Democracy. Suffrage car never win as
I partisan issue, A'ienate TIE Demo.
srats en- macao ard you have kiI!e5 ev.
cry chanoe suiIraJ e has,
Won by Wilson's Speech.
1t is admitted Ivy ~sufTragjsts that
lhoir causc has been helped greatly nv
the speech President Wilson made be.
fore the convention of the National
Woman Suffrage association at Altar.
tic City on Sept. 8. When the presi-
dent told them he had come here to
tight with you" the 1000 suIrraojsts
gathered in NiSon's theater arose and
checred him enthusiastically.
This rlo1@c hy tho president led Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. president of the
association. TO say: