The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-11-03
Resolutions of the Women's Woodrow
 Wilson League of Arizona

Aroused by the impertinence of Eastern women, who seek to direct l the women voters of Arizona how to vote, the democratic women, together with many of other political faiths, | have organized the Women's Wood | row Wilson League of Arizona. They have unmasked the unfair methods employed by these paid eastern wo- men and have rallied the great body of the rank and file of women voters in Arizona to the standard of Wilson, Marshall, Ashurst and Hayden. At the organization meeting the fol lowing resolutions were adopted:
 WHEREAS, certain women polit- ica1 workers, who are operating in the State of Arizona and elsewhere under the auspices of the so-called Congress sional Union for Women's Suffrage and the so-called Womens Party, ap- parently in the employ of the Repub- lican National Committee, under the gulse of endeavoring to secure the passage of the Anthony Amendment for Suffrage, are making a campaign againts Woodrow Wilson for Presi- dent and the democratic candidates for Congress and are making a spe- cial appeal for the votes of the wo- men of Arizona for Charles E. Hughes for President and the republican can- didates for Congress upon the ground that during the three years of demo- cratic administration the Susan B. Anthony Amendment has not been passed through Congress; and
 WHEREAS, we consider such an appeal made to the women voters a | Tpf1nPfinn tho infal1i0anPn nf the women voters of this state, for the following reasons:
 First, because the Anthony Amend ment has been before Congress for more than thirty years, during prac tically all of which time republican administrations were in power, and no republican president and no repub- lican congress has ever made the slightest effort to secure or even aid in the passage of the amendment, de- spite the appeals of the women who have been appearing before the com mittees in Washington each year, en- deavoring to secure action upon it; and
 Second, because Woodrow Wilson has given womens suffrage his sup port by openly declaring himself in fla vor of it, andby going to New Jersey to vote for it. This is more than any republican president has ever done, and this action alone on his part, on account of his official position, has done more to advance the cause of womens suffrage than any action or thing ever done by the republican party. Charles B. Hughes did not even register to vote in New York and did not vote for women's suffrage in that state in the fall of 1915, when the matter was submitted there. MT. Hughes after his nomination only, is reported to have said he favored the Federal Amendment and would do what he could for it, although the republican national platform has eX- plicitly declared that it was a matter to be decided by the states (not by federal action.) In view of his par tvs platform, and his past record, it is not difficult to estimate what MT. Hughes campaign utterances on the subject are worth; and
 WHEREAS, we especially resent the action of paid political workers for these so-called organizations, from outside the state, coming into Arizona and endeavoring to influence the wo- men voters of this state to be disloyal to the party which gave them the right of suffrage in Arizona, because it is a matter of common knowledge and public record that the democrat ic party in Arizona not only made possible the submission of the consti- tutional amendment for women's sui frage by the initiative, but by the overwhelming democratic vote of the state at the election of 1912 the amendment was carried into effect, and that furthermore as far back as 1903, a democratic legislature, passed bill granting suffrage to women through both houses, and it was ve- toed by a republican governor; and
 NOW THEREFORE, Be It Re solved by the Women's Woodrow Will son League that we do condemn in unmeasured terms the actions and op erations of the so-called Compression al Union for Womens Suffrage and the Women's Party in the campaisn being waged against Woodrow Wilson and the democratic candidates fo1 fcongress, and do especially condemn the methods employed by them in con ducting their campaign as illogical un-American, unfair and subversive tC the best interests of women's suf frage, either nationally or otherwise;
 And We Do Further commend the administration of Woodrow Wilson as one of the greatest in every sense oi the word in the history of our coun try, approving the principles and poli cies enunciated and carried into effect - by him, and hold that his record, both as a man and as president, entities him to the support of every true Am erican woman."
 Ashurst-Hayden Resolution
 'fWHEREAS, Arizona's Junior mem Der of the United States Senate, Hen ry F. Ashurst has consistently and per sistently espoused the cause of wo mems suffrage, both local and nation al, and has used his best efforts, both