The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-07-29
WOMEN'S PARTY
TO ORGANIZE STATE

Each county and precinct in the
state of Nevada will be organized po-
litically by the Woman's party within
the next month and an active cam
paign among the women voters will be
inaugurated with an object of impress
ing on either the Republican or DEM
ocratic party that the 100000 en-
franchised women voters of the coun
try want the suffrage amendment
passed by Congress, says the Gazette.
Miss Margarite F. Whittemore of De-
troit and Miss Alice Henkle of Chica-
go, two national organizers of the
Woman's party, arrived in Reno last
night to direct the organization work
and will begin their work at once.
I'VE have every means at hand to
organize this state" said Miss White
more, "and are going to perfect an
organization similar to that maintain
ed by all other political parties. We
will have state executive committee
or central committee, and each county
will have its county central commit
tee and each precinct will have its
precinct committee woman.
THE Woman's party is going to take
an active part in the coming presi-
Dental campaign. What candidate the
party will support will be determined
at the national convention in Colora-
do Springs on August II. The party
may support Hughes, it may support
Wilson. it may put up candidates of
its own and it may throw its support
to the Prohibition candidates. In any
event the party that secures the sup
nPf IF hn 30 ~ I.
large following, as l confidently be-
lieve that the women's vote in the
Western states can control 81 cleo
toral votes which is more than enough
to decide who will be the next Presi-
dent
I'm the previous presidential cam
paign the women sent out workers
They were unframed and two went to
every states conducting the campaign.
Their efforts were so successful, how
ever, that the suffrage amendment
went before Congress and was sub
ject for a long debate
This year it will be different. Be
ginning on September /. two trained
workers will go into each state. One
will direct the work of the party from
an office in the principal city, while
the other will travel all over the state
and direct political meetings at which
some of the greatest speakers in the
country will talk We have $500. 900
to carry on the work now, with more
money coming in and practically all
speakers working voluntarily"
When asked who would be most
likely to secure the support of the
women. Miss Whittemore would not
say, but intimated that Hughes would
be the women's choice. Wilson has
sidestepped and evaded the women on
every turn" she said He wrote the
suffrage plank in the Democratic plat
form. which is worse than no plank at
all. and then said that he was sorry
that the national convention did not
endorse suffrage, but could not go
against his party's wishes. He also
intimated that the people of the South
from whence he gets great support
did not want suffrage, but he went to
the capital and whipped through the
child labor law, which laws affect the
South more than any other section
of the country. He has been very in
consistent and can hardly expect the
support of the women.
"On the other hand, the Republican
party did not adopt a favorable plank
for suffrage, but Mr.. Hughes stated a
few days ago that he would take a
definite stand in the matter and init
mated that he would support the fed
eral amendment, and would say so in
his acceptance speech"
Miss Mabel Vernon will come tC
Reno to take up the work of organiza-
ton of the state soon after the con
vention in Colorado Springs. She will
be assisted by Miss Henkle. and Miss
/ Whittemore will then go to Oregon.