White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-15
WILSON DID NOT
PREVENT WAR
ANNE MARTIN ExRIlDDEB THE
CLAIM THAT PRESIDENTS POL
ICY KEPT UNITED STATES OUT
OF WORLD CONF1Arr.

Miss Anne Martin OF Reno, who Ar |
rived in this district on Monday. max
ing the trip from Phoebe by motor. |
At McGili, she was met by Mrs. C. V.
Jenkins. President of the Woman's
Party of White Pine County and from
there brought to Ely where she ad-
dressed q large and enthusiastic
meeting at the Liberty Theatre. Miss
Martin WAS q little late In arriving
at the Theatre. but she found the
house crowded to overflowing and
anxiousiy awaiting her arrival.
state Senator NJ. II. Chapin pre-
sided At the meeting and introduced
Miss Martin as the speaker of the ev-
-sning. The energetic and popular
Nevada woman devoted much of her
time TO tearing to pieces the kept
us out of war" talk Of the democra-
tic orators and supporters OF Pres
ident Wilson. She declared that II
WAS the people OF the United States
that kept US out of war because we
are a peace loving people. She point
ed out that for the past four years
the Presidential chair had been oc-
oupied by a man who Yields to every
whim In order TO keep on the popular
side, and said that II war had been
popular with the people the Pres
ident would have yielded In that as
he had In all other matters. During
her one hour discussion OF the issues
presented In this campaign she laid
much stress on the fact that the Pres
ident could not Justly claim that he
reason that he had done so much 70
deny the ballot TO the women of the
country. and II was these Who we're
rhe greatest power and the strongest
weapon we had for peace. She said
they did not want their husbands
and their sons slaughtered In warfare
and for that reason that II they had
the ballot they would use II for the
prevention OF war and for peace
both at home and aboard She de-
clared that the Womans party was
supporting no political party. no man
and no set of men. but stood for the
good of the country and the protect
ion OF the home and the family She
said that In the twelve suffrage states
the opposition of the women directed
toward President Wilson and the
Democratic candidates for the Sem
ate and House of Representatives was
because OF the hostile attitude of
these men toward the equal franchise
movement She branded President
wilson's plank In the democratic
platform recommending the granting
OF suffrage by the separate states to
DE only snbterfnge and said that he
knew full we'll that il was impossl-
Die TO amend the constitution in
twenty OF the states. Al the conclus-
ION of her remarks Miss Martin in
Sited questions from the audience
ana many asked to be enlightened
on various matters which the speaker
e"oh up ana explained.
The only power that has kent
VIII Keep or ought TO keep the coun-
Try out OF war is the power not of
one man but of the popular will, ds-
elared Miss Anne Martin. National
Chairman. of the Woman's Party at
a meeting at Ely on oetobere. Miss
Martin was discussing the plea of n
certain type of campaign speaker.
support the President He has kent
us out of war"
AS matter of actual fact the
reason we have not gone to war ia
because the people of the Irn,ted
states have ardently desired To re-
man AT peace. said Miss Martin.
II the mass of the voters had de-
sired war, as they wished for nre-
pardness measures. we should have
gone to war long ago. because we
nave had president who has v,e,aaa
as has no other president in our h,.-
tory. to emergency demands Rnt
public opinion, organized and unor-
ganized. has been against war The
result fs. We have kept ourselves out
of II.
AT this critical time" said Miss
"artin' 1T is important that we an
d nation should put into the hands
~ women the power to stand between
."e country and precipitate warfare
.-s sa 70 attach ourselves to a single |
S"a's'duai because he has kept us
OUT OF war. We will have many
Pres'dents in the future With whom |