Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-06

TASHINGTON, June 2-The call to Woman's
wv party convention to be held in Chicago at the
same time the Republican and Progressive
parties holding their conventions in the city, has
gone out to over 100000 women every in the
union. That the new party a regularly
lied one along recognized political lines
accepted fact 10000 expected to
answer the call Chicago will be filled during that
week. not only with men attending the Republican and
Progressive party conventions, but with women
organized the first time history of the nation
for concerted political action
The platform this new party simple, having
only plank-national suffrage to be written
constitution of the United States The
it announced will work independently of all other
political organizations, and its only aim will be to
the immediate of the Susan b. Anthony
amendment
The sufragsts who are working for this convention
proposing to form Independent party of women
from the western support the plea of
eastern women for political acknowledgment They
propose to do this by utilizing
women for the good of the women in the east. They
attempting to obtain the solidarity labor
vote, which, by its support non-support of either
political party, wins legislation for good labor.
Twenty-three prominent women from the a
of the continent short time heralds
of the convention and to win western unite
with them in their demand the ballot That this
new movement has spread widely through the
stated by a California woman a short while ago.
and this would appear to be from the number of
western women answering the call to the convention
in Chicago.
The women who are organizing the Women's party
have announced that their hats ring They
have regular political convention on the same
days the Republican and Progressive parties have
theirs, in the same place This the leaders declare
Indicates no cohesion with the Republican and Pro
gressve parties but entirely independent party of
women voters, organized along recognized lines for
the purpose of working ntelligeny unitedIy
for the enfranchisement of American women.
The Liberty Gage hat of the woman's party is
being extensively by pretty girls women in
New York. New Jersey the District of Columbia
elsewhere preparatory the flooding Chicago with
the hats their during week of June s.
Many of these hats will probably be heirlooms
by and handed down genera
tions mementoes of the initial entrance of women
into the nations politics.
Chicago girls have volunteered to act as newsies
during the convention. and many of them
be the corners of principal business streets.
selling suffrage and distributing programs
the convention
The fact that 100000 will be able to cast
for president of United States through
their electors next November gives Woman's party
real political Importance The women claim that
fifth of the electoral vote one-thrd of the vote
necessary elect the president of the United
States from states where women vote on the
terms men, that they can bring even a
small proportion of these support of the
suffrage amendment political party will be strong
enough to withstand them.
Women vote for president in twelve states and
these control one-hfth of college
and one-third of the vote necessary to elect
president the past five presidential not
one of these twelve gone steadily for any
one party. Women equally with men in eleven
for members of both houses of Twen-
ty-two senators and forty members of the house o
representatives come from these states where
In all presidential elections since 1896, in these
states where the average change OF votes
necessary to turn election the party
has been per of the total cast Since 1895
six congressional elections have been carried by