Arizona republican., 1916-10-08
SUFFRAGE SIGN |NCENSES
 DEMOS; STARTS S0AAE FUSS

Putting Suffrage First in Phoenix has both its bright and it's dark side, according to Miss Vivian Pierce, the 95-pOund organizer for the Woman's Party for this county. While the new headquarters of this first womans po- litical party opened auspiciously, with crowds watching the unique window display all day yesterday two blocks down the street where the first of the big Woman's Party banners had gone up, all was not we'll
 At the office at 127 North Central Ave, the signs of the Party created much amusement. One window was filled with copies of "The Suffragist." the weekly magazine of the party. each copy with a telling cartoon on the cover placing the administration in various positions of watchful waiting Another was filled with the great de mand' banner that has been carried in Congressional Union and Womans Party Parades in nearly every state in the Union. It reads: We demand an amendment to the United States Con- stitution enfranchising Women" and it is this demand that is becoming the cruX of the present presidential cam paign.
 There were no signs of riot over these window displays; and an eXecu- tive meeting of the Maricopa County Committee was held during the after noon to decide the details of the two big rallies of the Woman's Party, to be held on the 14th and 18th of the month. This affair was hardly over when a messenger rushed in to say that the big sign of the WOman's Par ty two blocks away was creating marked disturbance in the neighbor- hood of Washington and Central av- enue.
 This sign, in vivid black and yellow reads: "Women Voters: Vote against President Wilson and his National Support. They oppose National Stuff rage-The Woman's Party" Since the sign went up, excited groups had been reading it. The truth of the legend finally was too much for them Pro- tests were registered. One loyal Dem Ocrat braVely said that if the sign did not come down immediately, he would cut 1t down. Protests came so thick and fast that one of the gentlemen tC whose building the sign was attached agreed to have the offensive truisn immediately taken. down.
 The Democracy of Phoenix dis | patched a messenger to Miss Vivian | Pierce in the newly opened office two | blocks up the street, none of the pro- | testants evidently having the nerve tC | face the Phoenix women or the repre- sentative of the Woman's Party them | selves. Miss Pierce stood firm, saying that since the gentleman to whose | building the sign was attached hat I IgFfN~ h refused to take it down until Monday even though he had been forced tC | change his mind, and that if the sig1 was injured by the patriotic citizeT who had threatened cutting, he would have to pay for it. She submitted tn, | price of the sign.
 The messenger returned from thu | Woman's Camp to the Democrat, camp in some doubt At last report. ! however. the banner is still shouting 1 its message down Washington Street | There was no unpleasantness over tn, l big banner" said Miss Pierce. "Th, | gentleman who allowed us to put it up l simply reversed himself, a good dea the way Wilson might in a like ticklisl situation. He could not stand the pro tests of his friends. Far be it from u
 to want the sign floating from hi rooftree if it annoys him. We ar perfectly willing to move it. There ar many men in Phoenix who are clamor
 ing for us to decorate their building
 with our banners. On Monday if tn
 gentleman has not changed his min
 about the sign, it will be removed t
 a position nearby. That is the sa
 thing: it will be so very near that
 might as well be decorating that par
 ticular spot We were perfectly will
 ing to take the sign down. But we de
 clined to be interrupted at an execu
 tive session at nearly five o'clock jus
 because a few Democrats were excite
 over the truth about President Wilson
 If they had been working for Fedora
 Suffrage as long as We have that sig would not have excited them at all"
 The Rose WinslOw Mass Meeting c
 the Woman's Party will be held at tn
 Y. M. C. A Stadium next Saturda
 markable young woman will tell of he
 own battle as a working woman, go
 ing into just how the mill and sweat
 shop and factory women of the eas
 would use the ballot. It was ROs
 Winslow that led the historic labo
 womens deputation to Wilson durin
 the 63rd Congress, and she speaks wit
 bitterness of the equivocation in 'th
 reply to those 400 women made by tn
 president at that time, when he de
 clared he could not start anything