Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-25
Carraway and Clarke Arc Urged by Wire to Support
 Proposed Amendment.
STIRRING ADDRESS
 BY MISS ALICE PAUL
National Chairman of the COlgYs. ssiOnal Union EEtl,uses Local Wo- men Who Believe They Are ,sal-
 titled to Political Equality.

ening, under tho auspices of the Pine Bluff Political Equality league. the following telegram was forwarded to United States Senator James P. Clarke and Congressman T. H. Car raway: "A meeting of the Pine Bluff Politi- cal Equality league, assembled in the chamber of commerce, Monday Jan. | 24, discussed the following resolu 1 tions, which were unanimously car ried:
 Resolved, that this meeting calls upon Congressman T. H. CarraWay to secure an immediate and favorable report on the national suffrage amendment, from the judiciary com mittee;
 l Resolved, that this meeting calls upon Senator James P. Clarke to use l his influence to secure the passage of l the National Suffrage amendnent.'' After hearing a spirited and most interesting talk by Miss Alice Paul, national chairman of the Congression- al Union for Woman Suffrage, whose home is at Washington, D. O., the meeting last night not only decided unanimously to send the telegrams above quoted, but also pledged itself to contribute the sum of $100 to the fund for the passage of the national suffrage amendment to the United States constitution, the money to be paid to the treasurer of the national union. 5 Is '.Teminine. Suffragatte. Contrary to the general impression that suffragette naturally is manly woman, one advanced in years, or of militant bearing, or one generally | without those little feminine graces, Miss Paul, who arrived in Pine Bluff late yesterday from Little Rock, is es- seentially feminine Earnest and de- l thoroughly posted, not only on wo- man suffrage, but on all things per | taining thereto, yet she has lost none of the feminine graces thereby, and in that fact, perhaps. lies her strength as an advocate, and her power as a 1 politician, using the word in it's high lest sense.
 l "Now is the time to strike," she told The Graphic last evening, just as she later told the ladies at the meeting "The Democrats and the Republicans are about to fight out a presidential campaign. If we get to- gether, and join all our strength un- der one banner, we will be easily 1 strong enough to decide the issue. Being so strong, we will be jn position l to compel one party or the other to pass the pending amendment, and then
 we can make the fight in each of the states, to have the amendment rati- fed"
 "There are 100000 women voters in the United States now, and the
 number is increasing continually and
 rapidly. Huge sums have been ex-
 pended the past two or three years, in state fights. to have New York,
 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other states grant us the ballot, but we have
 lost these fights and are no better off X than we were before. We control now one-fourth of the senators and
 one-sixth of the representatives in congress. We can control more-we can control all we need-if we center
 our efforts. To win, we must con- centrate on this line. If we concen- trate, we will win"
 l. Going After Carraway.
 II Miss Paul recalled to the ladics at
 the meeting, the fact that Congress-
 man Carraway is a member of the ju-
 diciiary committee, and that he had
 led in the fight against the amend Iment. Not being able to reach MT
 Carraway in any other way. workers ] in the cause are invading MT. Cara l !; ;c4, in% niyinp the
 women therein, that MT. Carraway
 may "hear from the folks back home
 and see the error of his way
 | Senator Clarke also opposed the
 amendment and now the women in
 Arkansas are being organized, said l Miss Paul, and Senator Clarke like
 wise will "hear from home about this
 ''Dts Congressman Henry Of the Waco
 district of Texas fought the amend
 ment last year. Texas was not organ
 ized by the union then. Miss Paul
 has just come from Texas, which now |has a inactive and strong suffrage central body and MT. Henry will re-
 ceive a number of messages showing
 how the wind blows.
 Thus, said Miss Paul, the union is
 working. When it can not win other
 wise, it goes out and organizes the
 forces in state or in several states
 and in that way congressman ant
 senators; are reached and influenced
 Twenty states already have been or
 ganized. The work started last May and will be completed by this May
 Arkansas will be organized today. al
 a meeting at the Hotel Marion, at Lit tie Rock. where Miss David D. Terry 1 will preside. Miss Paul and Miss Ma
 bel Vernon will make talks. A con
 stiution will be adopted and state or ficers will be elected, who will see te ; the perfection of the organization 1T
 every congressional district county
 township, ward and precinct of tn