Weekly journal-miner., 1916-10-04
WILSON'S DEFEAT |S URGED BY
 SPEAKER
MISS HELEN TODD TELLS WHY WOMAN'S PARTY OPPOSES PRESIDENT AND FAVORS HUGHES.
iFrom Fridays Daily.)

Before a small but attentive audi
 cnce, Miss Helen Todd, famous soci-
 ological worker and suffrage lecturer, spoke last night in Odd Fellows hall on the record of the Democratic par
 ty on woman suffrage. Perhaps the belief that Miss Todd was here only
 for the purpose of tearing the Demo- cratic party to pieces and piling up votes for Hughes prevented more Democrats from attending. On the contrary Miss Todd's speech, in the main, was one of the most education al ever heard in this city and her at tacks on the Democratic party were limited to criticism of it for its cvas- i've manner of dealing with the stuff rage question.
 "A woman may not know much about currency and tariff reform,' said Miss Todd, but she knows enough not to vote for a crook and grafter who has been forced on the people by some political organiza- ton. The history of the world will show that it has been woman who has borne the burden of war and poverty. She has sacrificed her loved cres to defend the honor of her country and yet she is denied the right to vote, the privilege that was granted the negro, the Indian and the foreigner who never even asked for the ballot
 We are against President Wilson because he has never made move to encourage the passage of the Federal amendment cnfranchising women. We have sent scores Of delegates to him, working women and girls from the swcatshops of the East, wealthy club women, rcprescntivcs of the leading mothers clubs of the nation and many of the leading social workers, and he has consistently told Us he could do nothing for us and that suffrage must be settled by the States. And why should it be settled by the States: Was the right of the Indian, the negro and the foreigner to vote settled by the Statcs:"
 Miss Todd told Of how the Federal amendment had been referred to the judiciary committee at Washington. referring 10 this committee as the graveyard of congress" This, she said, meant that action would never be taken on the bill while the Demo crats are in office.
 The belief that the Republicans are paying us for campaigning is not 1 true," she said. The expenses of the . Woman's party are being paid with the contributions from women who . are slaving in the factories through l out the country and with funds pro- vidcd by wealthy women who arc backing us in our struggle for the ballot"
 -liNS Oul NOlNiuNtu litl SptCCn ] with plea to the women of the West ! not to support President Wilson for reelection, but to vote for Hanly, | Benson or Hughes, the candidates of the three parties who have declared for the Federal suffrage amendment. She then offered to answer any qucs- tions.
 Why is it, asked one man, that you urge more people to vote for Hughes instead oi Mir. Bcnson:"
 We are supporting Hughes" an- swercd Miss Todd, because even the Socialists themselves will admit that Mr. Benson has little chance of being elected in November. The race is between two men, Hughes and Will son. Mr Wilson has not declared himself in favor of the Federal amendment and Mir. Hughes has. Therefore, we believe that our only chance of getting the amendment passed is to do all we can to elect Mir. Huohcs"