Arizona republican., 1916-09-24
PHOENIX TO BECOME CENTER
 0F WOMAN SUFFRAGE: STORM

With the opening of the Womans
 Party campaign for the National Suf-
 frage Amendment at the Y. NJ. c. A.
 stadium next Wednesday night Phoe-
 nix becomes one of the suffrage storm
 centers of Arizona. It is the plan of the Congressional Union for Woman
 Suffrage leaders in the east, and the
 Woman's Party leaders of the suffrage
 states, to maintain a lively campaign
 in this state and in the surrounding
 territory until the end of the cam
 palgn, when notable speakers will be
 the feature of the final Phoenix rally.
 Arizona has been divided by the
 busy eastern and western suffragists
 into three sections, with an organizing
 captain planning the work in each
 section. Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson,
 well known in Phoenix, is head of the
 eastern section of the state, with.
 headquarters in Tucson. Miss Iris Cal
 derhead is captain of the central and
 part of the northern section of the state, with headquarters in Prescott;
 and Miss Vivian Pierce will until the
 end of the campaign plan the work TOT Maricopa, Yuma, MohaVe and Co., ooninO counties
 Miss Pierce assured the Woman's Party and Congressional Union Coun- ty Committee, at a meeting held this week that from Miss Todd's opening rally at the stadium until the end of the campaign, there will not be many dull moments in the campaign for the federal amendment in this part of the state. Meetings in every section of these counties will be covered by speakers, many of them Phoenix wom-
 en. After the stadium meeting, street meetings will be held nightly by Miss
 Pierce and the Phoenix women who are helping in the plans
 Mrs. c. E. Hull of this city. the county chairman of Maricopa and pr. Marion Walker Williams, also of
 Phoenix, the Arizona member of the National Advisory Council of the Con gresslonal Union. are helping Miss Pierce draw up the plans for Mari copa County. One of the first steps to be taken in Phoenix will be the opening of campaign headquarters d0Wn town that women in and near fhoenlX may join the party and help Tn the distribution of literature with out the inconvenience of hunting for the local officers
 The local committee promise that the purple, white and gold banners of the Congressional Union and Woman's Party will become the most familiar colors in Phoenix before the end of the campaign
 Prominent speakers are to be routed through Arizona, visiting the larger cities. including Phoenix. Following Miss Helen Todd, Miss Rose Winslow VIII be heard in Arizona Rose Win Sio" makes a special appeal to labor i men and women. A textile worker in massachusetts from the age of elev- en- thls flery young Russian girl al- | most lost her life through tuberculosis 1 contracted in the unsanitary mills of I that state. Her astonishing powers as a pleader for suffrage were discov | cred by the New York workers. and | she has since pleaded for a vote for | me women and children of labor in | ne east in many parts of the country. | MISS WinsloW made tremendous im- | in the Rockefeller coal | amps Of Colorado lately. She will be | heard in mining camps all over Ar | Zona
 It IS the plan of the Woman's Par y and the Congressional Union to end through every suffrage state just lefore the November election one of 1 ne most beautiful and effective of the peclaI pleaders for suffrage-Mrs. neg Milholland Boissevain of New oik' attorney and feminist Mrs. oolseValn will carry with her through very state the final message of ap- zeal of the eastern women She will -lso bring messages from hundreds of 'rganlzations and trades and from epresentative women in every part of ne east; and she will carry the final ppeal of the Congressional Union for oman Suffrage which is responsible or the tremendous effort western Vomen are making. The appeal of the Union will be read at l veryone of these final mass meetings The date and the personnel of the re- nainder of the Phoenix program has lot yet been arranged.
 Arizona Women," says Miss Pierce 4 at first did not get the message of ne Congressional Union and the Voman's Party. They thought we had hanged our policy and were making
 partisan appeal Our policy is just shat 1t was when the Congressional .nlon was organized four years ago. We steadily tried to make the Party Il power responsive to the western loihen Who were demanding the pass ge or the suffrage bill. and we tried I vain. The Democratic party does ot believe in the power of western 'omen If it believed it were exped ent to pass the federal suffrage mendment it would have been passed like other expedient measures. The el congressional Union and the Woman's arty came into existence to prove to l ollticians that it is no longer exped- mt to delay justice to women. The nly way to teach the Democratic arty this lesson is to defeat that par We are in the field to do that the suffrage issue alone"
 Miss Helen Todd. the first of the otable suffragists to visit Phoenix Ill be heard on the Record of the emOcratic PartYn next Mednorda,