Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-19
MORE PATRIOTIC
THAN POLITICAL"
TRAINS SLOGAN
Many Prominent Women to Speak
in Bismarck in Support
Of Hughes.
PARTY ARRIVES IN
CAPITAL CITY, OCT. 9
Local Committee Will Announce
Arrangements for Reception
in Short Time.
more Patriotic Than Political"

more Patriotic Than POLITICAL
This is the unique slogan Of the
Women's Special Campaign train,
which leaves New York October
8. Mrs. Eula Harris, press agent
for the tour, spent portion of her
time in the city Sunday, enroute to
Spokane, arranging details for the
trip.
The local committees and arrange.
ments will be announced soon. Some
interesting features are planned for
Bismarck and the citizens should turn
out, regardless of political affiliations,
to give these distinguished women a
royal reception.
Not Suffrage Movement.
Although the trip is arranged to
promote Hughes candidacy, it is dis
tinctly apart from the suffrage move
ment 1t is not in ony sense "Votes
For Women propaganda. It's mis-
sion is to arouse patriotism and a
finer sense of Americanism. These
women believe that Hughes is the
proper leader in such a crisis as this
and that President Wilson has failed
lamentably in coping with the big
issues of the day.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth has
been given special invitation to ac-
company the train and visit her faith
er's old stamping ground in the vicin-
ity Of MedOra. She may accept.
First Time.
This is the first time that women
have been accorded an active part
in the campaign arrangements of any
party. While the train is planned to
make special appeal to the states
where women vote, the stops enroute
are made to arouse enthusiasm for
the national and state tickets. a.a-.s...
Welfare subjects will be discussed
and also Hughes great work in New
Patriotism and Americanism will al
so be keynotes. ..-.
The Committee.
There is a national train committee
reaching from, coast to coast. Among
those on the, committee are: Mrs
Arthur Capper, George Sutherland,
Herbert Humphrey, Thurston Ballard,
Nicholas Longworth, Harry Payne
Whitney, Daniel Guggenheim, George
H. Partridge, Walter Damrosch, Win
slow Williams, Phoebe Hearst, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Clifford Pinchot,
Charles NJ. Hoffman, Erward T.
Statesbury, Spencer Penrose and
Miss Maude Wetmore. The ladies of
the train committee will meet the
train with members of the local Wo-
ms Committee of the Hughes ALI
ance and accompany the train across
the state, leaving it just as it reaches
the border, where the committee from
the next state will meet it.
To Present Banner.
Banners will be presented to the
mayors of the various towns visited,
whether he is Democrat or Republi-
can, for the platform of the Women's
Special is that of the Hughes Alli-
ance-"Americanism." In some towns
speeches will be made from the plat
form of the train. In others, noon
meetings or even morning meetings
will be held and in few of the big
SSol ~" Ao ~ CAAOAAOuo A16AI AlCCC-
ings will be held in the largest hall
or auditorium of the city,
Not less than 10 speakers will be
carried on the Women's Campaign
Special. Those asked to go are:
Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Miss Agnes
Riddle, Miss Helen Todd, Mrs. Ray
mond Robins, Miss Mary Dreier, Mrs.
Joseph T. Bowen, Mrs. Ella Fiagg
Young, Commissioner Katherine Da-
Wis, Mrs. Charles Board, Miss Maud
Miner, Mrs. V. G. Simkovitch, Edna
Ferber, Gertrude Atherton, Inez Gill
more, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Mary
Shaw, Miss Helen Boswell, Miss Zona
Gale. Miss Frances A. Kellor, who
is chairman of the New York State
committe of the Women's committee
of the National Hughes Alliance, will
be in charge of the tour.
Financed by Women.
This tour is entirely financed and
directed by women. In each town
visited a representative Republican
will be asked to introduce the women
speakers, but in the west, where the
women have the privilege of the vote,
prominent local woman will be ask
ed to make the introductions.
The meeting will be open for both
men and women, and it is expected
that the meetings will be tremendous
ly successful, both in number of at
tendance and enthusiasm.
The special cars will be decorated
in banners and the speakers will live
on the cars from the day the tour
begins until it ends.
SETH Low DEAD.
New York, SPIT 17.-Seth Low, pub
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