Arizona republican., 1916-10-25

occasion, will be given 10 all attending | the meeting. and will be read by Mrs. | Frederick Stafford. vice chairman of . the Maricopa county committee presid- | ing officer from the platform.
 Rose Winslow made hundreds of | friends when she spoke in Phoenix ten l days ago. Requests for her return have literally poured into the woman's party heaauuarters This wonderful young speaker was Co have returned to Phoe- nix at the close of the campaign to speak for The last time. The fact that she was passing through this city on i her way to keep northern engagements | makee it possible for her to speak in { Phoenix tonight instead of at the later
 date. 1 An extemporaneous speaker of rare
 charm. Rose Winslow never repeats
 herself Therefore those who heard her
 when she vas in Phoenix last week,
 may rest assured they will be made to see a new angle of the political situa
 ton during the present campaign that
 las for the first time projected women
 into the spot light. Because of her own
 carly environment and training. or lack
 af training. this girl feels keenly the
 iniustice uf denying to the working
 women of this country the right to a
 voice in it's affairs The most exploit
 cd of human beings. the women in east
 ern industry" says Miss Winslow, can never hope 10 better the unjust condi-
 tions under which they toll until they
 have the ballot in their hands"
 Rose Winslow was born in the slums
 of Philadelphia She began the most cruel of apprentceships Co living in the textile mills of that city and of Pitts burg at the age of eleven, forced to this premature slavery because there were
 twelve other children in the family of
 the Polish miner who had come to America with his family to better their
 condition Walking miles Co the fac
 tory daily, standing at the looms ten and half hours a day. this child of another tongue learned English. and 5 devoured history and poetry and liter ature at an age when many a carefully trained high school girl Is being prod
 ded to her books
 ; Forced out of the factories. physical wreck as a young girl, on her recovery Rose Winsiow turned her whole energy ] to attempting to change the condi- tions under which women labor; and
 from the Trade Union League she graduated as suffrage speaker mak ing the most poignant appeal to labor that has probably been heard in this country.
 .. It was Rose Winslow who led the
 great labor deputation to President Wilson when he was asked for the n fourth time during the sixty third con-
 gress to stand behind the federal suf f frage bill which would mean a short f cut to justice for the women of this na-
 tion Miss Winslow has told of that n deputation with passion in many parts : of this country-how the 400 women, . drawn from twelve industrial states $. and representing as many trades, were s. received with scant courtesy only 25 Y being admitted because the president was too "fatigued" to shake hands with n so large a number. The remainder hold l, ing their suffrage banners inscribed h with legands from the presidents New Il Freedom (for men only) sat outside '- the door
 e. But the Pennsylvania mill girl was c one of those admitted. When sh' d pleaded for the mill girls of Pennsyl-
 vania he told her that since federal snf- le frage was not mentioned in the Balti y more platform, he could not start any IS thing"
 es As a matter of fact" says this gir ig today. He has started the national wo lS mans party. working for the defeat o it, the man who has ignored women of never to be dissolved until the passag g. of the Susan B. Anthony amendment e. onfranchiseng the women of this ma le tion."
 The special decorations for the bi at rally tonight at the stadium are i a charge of Miss May Noble, treasurer 0
 the county committee. Huge purpl, 7" white and gold suffrage banners com bned with American colors will bac he the stage, decorated with the same col i,, , ors and ornamented with palms. Tn - Indian band will play special prograi
 of music for the evening. The follow ar ing Phoenix women will occupy tn ad platform seats: pr. Marion Wake
 Williams member of the national ao n- yisory council; Miss May Noble, MT ,id Frederick A. Stafford, Mrs. Ralp mi Cameron, Mrs. R. F. Moore Mrs Wa plv ter Webb of Washington. D. C., MT
 Roy Thomas. Mrs. G. E. Schooler. MT to- Francis II. Redewill, Mrs. Edith Bra,
 ford and others.