The sun., 1916-11-17
WOMEN'S CAMPAIGN
HARD ON WORKERS
Four Leaders in National Fight
for Suffrage Now Ill as
Result.
READY TO GIVE LIVES
Miss Alice Paul Tells What
Was Accomplished in Way
Of Winning Votes.

The campaign Of the woman's party
has been hard on It's soldiers. The
breakdown Of Mrs. Ines Milholland
Boissevain. now so Ill u Los Angeles. is
due to her work a. speaker. 1t Is said
that even when she became so exhausted
that she tainted on the platform she
would insist on going back to the charge
as soon a she wa revived.
Miss Doris Stevens, q young and bril-
liant member Of the party. is about to
undergo an operation in San Francisco.
Several weeks before she finally sue
cumbed she had to live at the hospital,
going out for the speeches each day.
Miss Beulah Amidon. another speaker. is
Ill In the West. and still another. Miss
Emily Perry. IL down with heart trouble
In Washington, D. c.
But Miss Alice Paul. who was trained
in Mrs. Pankhurst's school, will not ad-
nit that the price 10 to b considered.
They nave enlisted to free women, she
said. and must be ready to give their
lives II need be.
Mrs. William Colt of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage will give a
dinner at the Women's City Club to-
night In honor Of the campaigners Of the
Woman's party who worked to defeat
President Wilson in the states where
women vote. A number have returned
East. including Miss Paul, who directed
the campaign. and Is full Of enthusiasm
Tor what she insists was a brilliant sue
cess.
Vote In West Analysed.
Every woman we could reach voted
against Wilson," she said. IF II hadn't
been for US there would have been a
Wilson landslide. Women all over the
West were for the President because
he kept us out OF war; but when we
spread tho knowledge that he kept us
out OF suffrage they rallisd to our
side.
California, Washington, Colorado.
Utah and six other suffrage States went
FOR Wilson, yes. but II was because OF
the male Progressive and labor. and
farmer vote. In most of those States
the men outnumbered the women two to
one. The narrow margins by which
Wilson carried some OF them were due
to the veering Of hosts Of women who
would normally have supported him.
The only suffrage STATE In which the
returns can be really analysed Is
Illinois. for that is the only place in
which the ball0s are counted separately.
Several weeks before the election Illinois
was conceded to Wilson. Democrats and
Republicans agreed that the great wo-
mans vote there would 20 to the Demo-
cratic candidate for his record on peace.
Able women were working for him
Jane Adams, Miss Mary Mcdowell.
Ella Flagg Young. Mrs. George Bass
and many others wore on his side.
situation In IIIinois.
But we threw our speakers. Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch and q dozen
others. into Illinois. telling the women
It was their duty to help their I'M
e~nfranchised sisters by Furnishing the
Democrats for not putting the Federal
amendment through Congress-. And see
what happened! More han 10000 more
women voted there against Wilson than
for him. He received 5s,57s fewer
women's votes In that State than
Hughes. The combined Socialist and
Prohibition vote in Cook county alone
among women was 1878. Thousands
OF women throughout Illinois pledged
themselves 20 refuse support to the
President As long as he opposed the ma
tional acknowledgment Of women. telling
us that nothing but this cause could
turn them from the man who had kept
this country peaceful and prosperous.
THE Womsn's party did this. II put
the Democrats on the defensive, causing
them to make their campaign almost
wholly ar attempt to combat the Won
ans party work. We didn't care who
wal elected. We are not pro-Hughe,
or anything else except just pro-woman
And We turn to the coming session o,
Congress full Of hope. confident that thu
loss OF moro than a third and nearly
one-half the electoral votes OF the sun
a z States Is a thing that will MAKE
Mr.. Wilson realize woman's power. Thu
Democrats will not care TO encounter thi'
opposition again. and they will give III
the Federal amendment"