Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-02
TO
PAY BOISE VISIT
Congressional Union Lead
ers Will Be Received by
the State Officials.

The officers and official represent
atives OF the Women's Congressional
union who will invade Idaho next week
| in q special train carrying to the west
ern states their message of national
suffrage, will be In Boise one week
from tomorrow, May 20. and will
be received by Governor Alexander.
and all elective and appointive state
officials In the -otunda of the main
section Of the capitol building. An
nouncement to this effect was maze at
the capitol building today. The recep-
ton OF the delegation on the part Of
the state officials will take place at 10
o'clock In the morning. There will
probably be short address of well
come on behalf of the state by the
governor and response by some of
the leading women with the visiting
delegation.
Special stops at Pooatsllo.
The women's Congressional union
special will not come toSBoise unless
the itinerary Is changed~whio' now
seems possible. Pocatello is the only city
in Idaho included on the itinerary. The
special will crrive in the Gate City on
the ninth. There will be SO women who
are ardent advocates OF national suf-
frage in the party. From among this
number decoration will be selected
70 visit Boise and meet the state Off
cials here.
The mission of the union is a cen
txalized attack on the president Of the
United St;tes for hi failure to espouse
the cause of national suffrage. All of
~ rAeAa .a%k hAf,, keiA I'D -.
the hope of arousing interest In the ma
tional suffrage cause. AS Idaho is one
of the few states in the un on which
now enjoys suffrage the visit Of the
Representatives of the Women's Con-
gressional union, many of whom have
never been In this state, will be as in
teresting to them as it is to the sur
frage advocates of Idaho. The delega-
ton from the special which comes to
Boise will arrive here Tuesday evening
OF next week.
Praise Roosevelt for Stand.
The eastern suffragists' special was
in Portland this week and while there
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, daugh-
ter OF Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of
athe most prominent suffragists in the
east. praised Theodore Roosevelt for
the stand he had taken to give the
franchise to women. She said in part:
Colonel Roosevelt's statement that
ne stands for the national suffrage
amendment, made recently in New
York, when he was waited upon by a
delegation of the Congressional Union,
u the beginning of the end of our cam
paign. We came west to appeal to
voting women to help the disfranchised
Women OF the nation. and so great has
Been their response that political
leaders must take notice.
I'VE came to the west urging women
voters to stand outside party lines on
high plane of craftsmanship, and
with one accord refuse support to any
party that fails to use its power to
pass the federal amendment
Roosevelt has declared for the ma
donal amendment He promises to
DO justice should success sit on his
Banner Pressed by the spectacle of
he serried ranks of voters meeting as
The woman's party at Chicago in June,
he Republican party will not do less
han follow suit. And then what can
he Democratic party do? How can
It outbid the wise words of Colonel
Roosevelt? Will platform pledge
rom the party In power meet the
fase2 Will the woman voter wait and
accept from the Democrats at st. Louis
promise to do something in the flu
lure which 1t has power to do today !?
certainly not.
THE woman voter. rising to the
height of the great principle of po-
itical freedom for her sex. demands
hnd rightly demands. immediate &C.
Ion from the party which has power
20 act. Deeds, gentlemen of the DEM
pcratic party, deeds in the living pres
ent are what is required of you. A
promise for future good behavior can
pc accepted only from those who have