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BY Suffrage Committee

held in Miller. Aug. 18th was
a notable success in every particular
The day was perfect the roads were
fine and the harvesting was over
consequently the women came from
all over the county to attend this
meeting. All went away full of
enthusiasm and encouragement, and
feeling that they had had a rare
treat.
Never before have the people of
Miller had the pleasure of listening
to three women of national reputat-
ton all in one dav. There vas con-
ference for woman in the afternoon
a street meeting and a mass meeting
in the evening DR.. Jones and Mrs.
De Voc spoke at the conference and
delivered addresses at the mass
meeting. Mrs Benedict conducted
the street meeting.
The opera house had been beauti-
fully decorated with the yellow and
white. A large American flag on
the stage suggested the patriotism
of those so deeply interested in Sc
curing full citizenship for the women
who live under its protection.
DR.. Efie McCullom Jones. for
years pastor of the Universalist
church at Waterloo, Ia. and now
Field Director and Lecturer for
the National American Woman suf
frage Association, is a woman of
splendid strong personality and de
livers an address of convincing logic
Her talk is a straight Toward appeal
to the intelligence of the people and
she never fails to win them.
Mrs Emma Smith De Voc is pres
ident of the National Council of
Women Voters which Emphasize S
its freedom from partizanship and
sectarianism in all It's undertakings.
Standing at the head of this organ
izatlon Mrs De Voc fills one of the
most important positions occupied
by any women ! u country today.
She speaks from the STANDPOINT of
one who knows and her message is
one of hope and encouragement.
Elsie Y. Benedict, of Denver Colo.
National Organizer and Lecturer
has TO equal as an open air speaker.
She possesses a charming personality
a wonderful delivery and her argu-
ments are unanswerable. She is win
ming Votes for Women in So. Oak
at a rate to give the anti's nervous
prostration.
Certainly the enemv is fleeing be.
fore the onslaughts of the Flying
Squadr on and should they visit us
again they will find a warm welcome
awaiting them in Miller.
1t is claimed by the Womens Party
that they will turn the 81 electoral
votes of the women in suffrage states
to the Republican party because the
Democrats oppose the Federal
Amendment.
The Womens Party is an organiza.
ton composed not of woman voters
of the suffrage states, but of eastern
women mostly, who are members of
the Congressional Union, a compare
lively small group of women who be.
lieve that the Federal Amendment is
the only way to win women suffrage,
Neither they or n one else car
hand over the 81 electoral votes oil
the women of the western states.
The following is an extract of the
Declaration of Princles of the womer
voters at a recent convention.
Believing that this Council is tt
fulfill a nationwide mission for tn.
uplift of the world. it desires to q
on record as holding itself above
partisan politics or sectarian aff!ia
tons.
The women upon this Council
representing the enfranchised state
purpose to emphasize their freedom
from partizanship and sectarianisn
in all work to be undertake. il
their respective states, and in al
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