Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-06
Two thousand Delegates
Launch New Movement IN
Chicago Under Auspices Of
Congressional Union,
TO INDUCE PARTIES
TO ADOPT PLANK
Hundred Expert Lobbyists at
Work. "We'lI Teach Poll
ticians," Says Mrs, Bel
mont,

isY uo~Nina soussAl SPECIAL Issssp wtsxi
Chicago. June 6.--HistOry for wom-
en- was In the making tonight when
the wonan's party was launched un-
der the auspices of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage. The
night meeting followed the one held
during the day marking the opening
Of their three day convention here in
an effort to promote their cause and
to induce the progressives and repuh-
licans TO put an equal suffrage plank
in their party platforms and TO obtain
their enforcement OF the Susan u. An
thony amendment to the constitution.
This is the first national womans
party ever launched.
Miss Maud Younger. of California,
the temporary chairman, made the
keynote speech She said the wom-
ans party would consider no other
issue than equal suffrage at present
and that II would throw it's influence
to that party which supported the An
thony amendment.
Two Thousand attend.
More than 1000 delegates from al
over the country were in attendance.
a committee of 100 expert lobbyists
was selected to work among the dele
gates and leaders of the progressives
ana republicans to obtain equal suf-
frage support
Among the suffragettc leaders In
attendance tonight were Mrs. @, II. L.
Nat, 10
Keller Nre Sara sas1fiegd, ef Orc
gon. Mrs Elizabeth Gebcrdine. Of
San Francisco Miss Ann Martin of
Nevada, Mrs. Wallace Williams, Of
Washington; Mrs. Inez Milholland-
Boisseyain and Mrs. Crystal Eastman
Benedict. OF New York Mrs. Town
send Scott, of Maryland, and Mrs Il.
NJ Rhodes of Seattle.
Mary Speeches Made.
Speeches were made by Miss Lucy
Burns OF Washington, y. O. vice
chairman OF the congressional union;
Mrs. Harriet stanton Blatch, of New
York. and Mrs. Ida Kinney Mackrille.
Of California
Miss Burns laid blame for the de-
feat of the national constitutional
amendment on the democratic party.
IF AS great percentage OF demo-
Gratis as republicans had voted for
suffrage a two-thirds majority for 1t
In the house would have been Sc
cured she said. Hut more than two
thirds of the democrats voted against
suffrage, reducing the vote to such a
point that the amendment could not
have secured a two-thlrds, even if
every member of the other parties had
been present and voting yes"
East Appeals to West.
Mrs. Blatch carried the appeal of
the east to the west"
ut was during the reconstruction
period. when all the efforts of my
Elizabeth Cady stanton, and
Miss Anthony to keep male out of
the fourteenth amendment and put
sex into the fifteenth, had proved
futile, that my mother said, our hope
is In the freedom loving west Mrs
Blatch related
The women Of the western states
are divided into political parties and
it needs but q fraction Of these wom-
en- OF any one party to force that par
ty TO accept its responsibility in con
gress toward the woman suffrage
amendment or to face defeat
Wants Club Used.
"We believe that this year you
women are going to stretch your
tafe
and place women above partisanship.
saying to the parties you have been
loyal to in the past. not one bit of
help do We give YOU until you have
done Justice to women.
Miss Ann Martin of Reno, New,
was elected chairman. In her OPEN
ing remarks she said: "T'he object of
our party is not to create sex antag-
onism; It has no fantastic vision of
sex solidarity; It is simply an organ
lzation of the 1000, 900 voting wom-
en- in the twelve suffrage states who
place equal suffrage before the inter-
ests of any political party
This movement Of western women
IS not u rtopian dream; it Is a prae-
teal political reanty Whieh the party
aders must reckon with rs deter
mining factor in the next election We
can Conceive of no higher purpose for
which to use our votes than for the
freedom Of other women
Mrs. Belmont Speaks.
Mrs o. II. = Belmont, of New
York in her opening speech said the
were here 10 do business
with the men Who want 10 be presi-
dent of the United States and that all
politicians will be taught something
about their business this year by the
women.
The motto Of the women during this
she said. is.
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