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tee of the Hughes Alliance are sending
across the continent in October a
Hughes Campaign train to get votes
{ for Hughes. IL has changed the slogan
50 long associated with all women's
political activities from votes for wo-
men" to votes for Hughes" and has
placed practical political activity for
ever above and beyond mere voting.
This is not a suffrage train. 1t is a
Hughes Campaign train. IL will car
ry a dozen or more of Americas fore
most women writer and speakers and
workers, who have been selected as
leaders in their fields of work in Amer
icanlzation, immigration, education,
protection of women, probation, and
not for what they believe on suffrage.
This train will visit % states, as fol-
lows: Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota,
Montana, Washington, Oregon Cali
fornia Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho,
Wyoming, Colorado. Kansas Missouri,
Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey.
win Bring Men and Women Together
Nationally
1t will be met in each state by state
reception committees who will travel
through the state. The meetings will
be for both men and women. The To-
cal speakers will be men. The meet
ings will be presided over by men, and
the issues presented will be national
| believe that these women, who are
pioneers in the labor and civic work
OF the country, will dispel once for
all the idea skilfully fostered by the
Democratic party that it has a mono
poly of the social and industrial work
ers and work of the country; that all
women are for Wilson because he has
kept us out of war, and that swapping
horses in the middle of the stream is
bad policy for America.
In getting votes for Hughes this
train will serve a larger purpose In
America 1t will unite the women-in
national solidarity behind a national
issue. 1t will abolish the last strong
hold of sectional spirit and state lines
1t will be financed and managed by
women who, by being efficient, are thus
putting into practical operation Mr.
Hughes slogan, America. first"
1t will offer the women of America
the rare opportunity to meet women
who have for years been doing work
Of national significance and who are
leaders of thought in America.
1t will give women opportunity for
political education and experience in
the most important states in an cleo
ton vital to the whole future of
America.
ROusing Reception Assured
The train was announced only last
week. Already west and east, women
are showing practical knowledge of
politics, and are joining with great
enthusiasm in preparing for the Wo-
mems Hughes Campaign Train. 1t will
certainly get a rousing reception. As
we go to press, for instance, we learn
by telegraph from Minnesota that on
the boundary line of the state the train
will be boarded by a state committee
of ten women. There will be big
demonstration as the train pulls into
st Paul station. This will be follow
ed by a luncheon rendered by the local
Hughes Alliance. Then there is to be
a meeting at two in the large Palm
Room of the st. Paul Hotel, and at five
thirty an automobile parade from 81
Paul to Minneapolis At eight-thirty
the biggest meeting i'm the state oc-
ours, with Governor Burnquist as
Mr.. Thornton, as speaker. In
Kansas, heads of organizations, club
presidents. and associations Of every
sort telegraph they are working to-
gether to make the biggest demonstra-
tiCn ever held in Topeka. Mrs. Ar
thur Capper, wife of the Governor,
will serve on the National Train Com
mittee. Colorado women announce a
big woman's club to greet the Women's
Hughes Train. The success of the
train reception in Nevada is made GER
tain by Mrs. Herbert Humphrey, wife
OF the Republican National Commit
teeman Mrs. George Sutherland and
other prominent Utah women are plan
ming TO hold meetings in a number of
towns. The Western women say they
are very eager to hear the Eastern
women speak.
Acceptances on the National Train
Committee have been received from
the following persons: Mrs. Arthur
Capper. Topeka, Kan; Mrs, George
Salt Lake City. Utah; Mrs
Herbert c. Humphrey. Reno, New.
Mrs. Thruston Ballard, Louisville,
KY: Mrs Nicholas Longworth. Gin
cinnati, o.; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney. New York: Miss Maud Wetmore,
Newport. r. l.; Mrs. Daniel Guggen-