Weekly journal-miner., 1916-03-29
WOMAN PARTY
 TO PROMOTE SUFFRAGE
LFrom Wednesdays DailvN

(From Wednesdays Daily)
 Plans for the formation of Wom- ans Party, among women voters, for the promotion of rational woman suffrage. will be outlined at a con ference Of the advisory council mem bers and national and State officers O. the Congressional Union. called for Saturday and Sunday, April s and 9. at national headquarters at Washing ton.
 The object of the party idea is to organize the women voters Of the F enfranchised States into a group whose power will be an effective weapon in securing the passage oI the national suffrage amendment.
 The movement has been reached, suffragists say, after a series of re buffs from the party in power in con gross. Ii Is the aim of the leaders to mobilize the suffrage forces in th- voting States. and. ii this is impossible to have the women voters throw their votes i1 the 1910 elections where they will most help the suffrage cause. in order to secure favorable action from congress during the present session.
 In order to consolidate those groups into a party that will put suffrage first, the Congressional Union will send a special delegation of 30 wom- en, one from each no1-suffragc State. into the enfranchised States to line up the women voters into a powerful voting body.
 These envoys into the West will be elected at the conference and vii! leave immediately after on a special car for the States to be invaded. The tour of six weeks will include all the principal cities of the cnfralchised States. The party will include speak CTS known throughout the country for their personality and power.
 Among the women who have signiii- fled their intention to go in the party are: Mrs. Harriot Stenton Blatch who is in charge of the political de partment Of the union; Miss Anna Constable of New York, Mrs. John Rogers of New York. Mrs. Nina Van Wrinkle of Morristown, N. J., presr dent of the New Jersey Woman's Po- litical Union, and Mrs. Florence Bay ard Hilles Of Wilmington. who Is chairman of the Delaware branch of the union.
 Approximately S5O,OOO will be re quired to cover the expense of the undertaking. The money has been subscribed, and when the delegation leaves Washington, there will be no financial cloud to darken the horizon.
 Announcement of the plan to form woman's party has been received with enthusiasm in the West.
 The tour through the enfranchised territory will end in big conference of the representatives of all the Con gressional Union branches in the West, to be held at Salt Lake City. Every State and congressional dis trict chairman in the voting States is expected to attend. According to present plans this gathering will be the largest and most spectacular ever held in the interest of nationwide suffrage. It will be the second Wom an Voters conference, the first hay, ing taken place in San Francisco. September Is, l6 and Y, 1915. The party will be in Prescott Wednesday. April 18th.
 The women attending will plan means by which their party in each State will use the balance of power which it will so largely possess, in the interest of the rational suffrage amendment. The basis of the party will be the placing of suffrage above party allegiance.