The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-24
Sufragists Responding to Call Of Congress.
sional Union are Expected to Launch
Move al Meeting in
Chicago
ORGANIZING WORK
Is BEING PUSHED
Group Of Militant Scouts are Directing
Operations from Headquarters; Open
Air Demonstrations Form Part
Of Program
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Chicago, May 24.-All is in readiness
for the thousands of women who will
attend the Woman's Party convention
here, June 5, s. and Z, in answer to
the call Of the Congressional Union.
Suffragists from all enfranchised
states will determine how they can
throw their votes in the next election
in order to best serve the cause of ma
tion-wide suffrage for women.
The last day of this convention Will
be the first day of the Republicah
conclave.
The Union has just completed an
invasion Of the west undertaken to
consolidate the Congressional Union
branches in the already enfrancbised
states.
The work OF organizing the conven.
tion is being pushed in every district
in Chicago through the women's clubs,
societies and industrial organizations
Miss Alice Paul. national chairman.
and notable group Of militant scouts
are in charge. The activities are di-
rected from "field' headquarters on
Michigan boulevard.
Miss Mabel Vernon OF Delaware,
who organized nearly half the enfran-
chised states in support Of the federal
amendment will arrive soon to direct
a campaign of street meetings.
Miss Doris Stevens, head of the ma
tional organization department, is here
in charge Of the open air demonstra-
tions and mass meetings that will
punctuate the suffrage calendar be-
tween now and convention time.
Miss Elizabeth Elder of PhiIadel-
phia has taken charge Of the informa-
tion bureau and will later enroll all
delegates. The work of directing the
out-ofdoor publicity is In the hands
of Miss S. Ada Flatman Of London.
England, one Of Mrs. Pankhurst's
lieutenants in the early days OF the
militant movement.
The program will be mainly in TIE
bands of the voting women. Among
the speakers will be Miss Maude
Younger, member of the National Ad-
visory Council of the Union, Mrs. Sara
Bard Field, envoy from the Woman
Voters convention in San Francisco.
and Mrs. William Kent, member OF
the national executive committee. all
of California; Miss Anne Martin OF
Nevada, member of the national leg
islative committee and Mrs. Dora
Phelps Buell., state factory inspector
of Colorado and member of the Ma
tonal Advisory Council Of the Union.
A hospitality committee headed by
Mrs. Clifford Wells, prominent So
ciety woman, is in charge Of the work
OF securing accommodations for the
hosts who will begin to arrive in few
days. Unable to secure rooms in the
fashionable hotels, the committee has
leased a number Of small suburban
hotels.
Contrary to reports that the Union
is partisan organization, Miss Alice
Paul. the national chairman, declared
today that the organization is stricsl,
non-partisan and is working solely for
nationwide enfranchisement of all wo.
men,
A review of the suffrage situation in
the house shows, suffragists say, that
the Democrats have blocked the
amendment.
Miss Paul is explicit in giving rea.
sons for the formation of the new par
ty IF women who are Republicans
simply help the Republican party, and
women who are Democrats simply
help the Democratic party" she said,
"women's votes won't count for much.
But when the political parties see be.
fore them a group of independent wo.
men voters who are standing together.
it will make suffrage an issue"
Among the women who will head
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