Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-16
National Committee of
Hughes Alliance Adopts
Plan of Action.
CAMPAIGN ALREADY
To Be Entirely Practical
With Activities in Every
State in the Union.

| Special to The World.
NEW YORK. July 15.-The exec
utive committee of the women's ma
tional committee Of the Hughes a.
| lance at a meeting at the Hotel As
| tor July ~ formally started the cam
paign to unite the women through
out the country of all parties in both
suffrage and nonsuffrage states in
support of Mr.. Hughes
The committee has started to Sc
cure in the shortest possible time a
central committee of a thousand, an
enrolment of n hundred thousand
and a preliminary budget of $780,
900.
Constitution Adopted.
The constitution of the women's
national committee OF the Hughes al
lance was adopted this afternoon. The
constitution declares the sole object of
| the alliance to be to aid in the cleo
| tion Of Charles Il. Hughes to the pres
| idenCy. Any woman in the country
| may become a member upon the ap-
proVal of her signed enrolment blank
| by the executive committee There
are to be no dues or membership fees
required for enrolment but all
members are invited to contribute.
The executive committee is en-
powered to authorize the. Information
of auxiliary, state, local. trade or
other branch organizations in the al
lance in such places and in such ways
as the executive committee may de-
| termine
An interesting provision of the
constitution is that no local branch
or auxiliary organization of the al
| lance shall be known or designated
as representing citizens Of any par
ticular foreign extraction. This is in
line with the policy of Americanism
which is to be a direct and dominant
issue of the campaign.
Active Campaign.
The committee has begun an active
membership campaign throughout the
country. This permits the enrolment
Of individuals in any part or the
country in the national alliance, but
does not on the other hand preclude
the organization of state or local
branches. The organization OF such
branches on the state and local basis
will on the contrary be encouraged
by the National alliance. For in
stance, by the present plan, If 25 per
sons in a given community enroll in
/ the National Hughes alliance, each of
these % will be informed of the num-
| ber in their community who have
| Joined the National alliance, and Will
be encouraged to join together to
/ form a state or local branch. The
purpose of the national membership
| plan is to avoid any of the delays
or difficulties that might possibly
arise because of local political condi-
tions or alignments: but it must be
remembered that the purpose OF the
Hughes alliance is TO unite citizens
on the basis of interest in Mr.. Hughes
election solely and that any mem
bers of the alliance may differ from
one another as widely as their con-
victions lead them to on state and
local tickets.
Frances A. Kellor, chairman of the
women's national committee Of the
Hughes alliance, at the meeting today
called attention to the fact that i'm
mediate purpose of the national com
mittee in the next four months Is TO
get votes for Mr.. Hughes, Sho said
the women are also very much in
terested in seeing that the things
that they worked for during the cam
paign are legislated into action in the
years that will follow
To BE Practical.
Doctor Davis. former commissioner
of corrections of the city of New
York. said: The campaign is to be
entirely practical. Field work IS 10
be done in every state. a worker
for the Pacific coast states left today
to organize the work of the Hughes
alliance there We shall never lose
sight of the fact that we art out
for votes. We believe that in this
particular campaign q very large part
OF the Independent vote is TO be won
hv an educational campaign on the
issl es. This we hope to carry"
Those present at the meeting in
cluded Frances A. Kellor, chairman
Mrs. Charles G.. Rumsey. treasurer;
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, secretary; Mrs.
william Curtis Demorest. DR.. kath-
oriro Il. Davis. Mary Antin and Mrs.
Bel nard H. Ridder.
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