The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-12
MISS Balm RETIRES As HEAD
After Successful Year Resigns First
District Craftsmanship In Order to
Give, All Her Time to Finan-
cial Campaign.

Setting forth the liabilities of wo-
men in states where they are not en-
franchised, and making an appeal to
the candidates for federal and state
offices for their support to woman
suffrage amendment, the first district
assembly of sufragists of Wisconsin in
their convention in Delavan yesterday,
passed resolutions which are to be for
warded to the candidates in question.
"The assembly was inspirational, !"
said Miss Harriet Balm, president of
the Kenosha County Suffrage League
in speaking of the convention this
morning. "Reports showed marked
progress in many of the counties and
towns represented. In no county was
| the advance in the work more marked
than in Walworth county where the
first organization was formed by me
ten months ago. The women have an
almost perfect organization with Mrs.
Dora Loomer, woman eminently fitted
to lead and enthuse others, at its head.
The members are making a house to
house canvass in Delavan and the re-
suits are most encouraging. One ward
worker reported that in her ward but
one woman had refused to join the or
ganization. Elkhorn representatives
promised yesterday to follow the path
which Delavan showed to be so full of
results and Burlington women also an
nounced that they would take up a
similar campaign based on house to
house canvasses.
Miss Balm Regrets to Resign.
Miss Harriet Balm in outlining the
work which she has been doing to raise
$4,000 for the state association, re-
ported most encouraging results so far,
although the campaign is not yet fairly
under way.
She resigned her position, with re-
greet, she said, as chairman of the first
district, giving as her reason that she
had been " conscripted for state work, -
and averring that the finance campaign
IS taking practically all Of her time.
The Craftsmanship is in the appoint.
ment Of the president and executive
board of the state organization and
the president announced that she is not
yet quite ready to make her appoint
ment, which will be announced in a
short time.
The towns sending representatives to
the conference were Kenosha, Racine.
Burlington, GAINESVILLE, Waukesha and
Delavan. Beside the townspeoplemany
rural visitors were present.
Speakers Drew Crowd.
The afternoon session when Mrs. FL.
M. Youmans, state president, and Mrs.
Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee were
the speakers, crowded the assembly
hall in the library and many had to
stand for lack of seats. Tea was
served after the program.
The resolutions adopted were intro
duced with preamble setting forth
that as women only among Wisconsin
citizens, excepting only the criminals
and mentally incompetent, are debarred
from enfranchisement by the govern
ment which their taxes help to support
and the laws of which they obey, and
asserting that women are Just as in
telllgent, public spirited and patriotic
as women in voting states where their
voting has proven beneficial to the
commonwealth.
Call Upon Husting and LaTollette.
The resolutions proper are, verbatim:
Therefore resolved that we, women
OF Wisconsin, resident in the first con-
gressional district, IN convention as
sembled, heartily endorse the federal
amendment, enfranchising women and
urgently call upon our senators. Robert
M. LaFollette and Paul o. Husting,
and our representative in congress,
Henry A. Cooper, to vote for it and
support it in every possible way at the
coming session.
And further be it resolved, that we
women of Wisconsin, resident in the
first congressional district, in conven-
ton assembled, urge upon members of
the state senate and assembly from the
counties in this district, namely Keno
| sha, Racine, Rock, Walworth and Wau-
kesha, that they give to us women of
Wisconsin the same right of voting
which they, men of Wisconsin, enjoy.
and we call upon them, in the name of
justice and night. to vote for and sup
port IN every possible way, any woman
Suffrage measure which may be intro
duced into the legislature of 1917 by
the Wisconsin Woman s Suffrage Asso
citation. -