Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-18
Ballots for Both
in The
Pine Tree State


At a fiery meeting of the Colorado
Equal Suffrage association, says a re-
cent issue of the Denver News. a
resolution was adopted demanding
the abolition of saloons and immoral
resorts IN connection with the army
training camps of the country, on
behalf of the women of America.
Conditions were denounced as fright
full. To accomplish this end with re-
spect to liquor the association for
the first time in history demanded
national. prohibition. Following the
adoption of the resolution a copy was
forwarded to the President of the
| United States and to each member of
| Congress.
| One Of the resolutions demanded
| the abolition of immoral saloons and
the internment of dispensers of liq-
our as national enemies. Another de-
manded national prohibition as the
best means OF striking at the whole
problem.
Other resolutions We're adopted de-
handing that women who take the
place Of enlisted men be paid mems
| wages and that the working hours
of women employed by the government
be kept at eight hours daily.
| The State Suffrage campaign COM
mittee will meet in Portland at the
| headquarters, 5S7 IL Congress street
next Friday at p m. Among the
subjects to be taken up are publicity,
county organization and plans for
mass meetings and speakers.
With tb,,c,i
| ness and wide experience in suffrage
work, Mrs. Albert Mcmahon, charm
ing southerner, has come into Maine
to aid the State Campaign committee
in it's efforts to secure the ballot for
women.
Before an audience of 1900 in the BIZ
jou Theatre, Bangor. on a recent even
ing, Mrs. Mcmahon made n ten minute
appeal in behalf of suffrage, especially
| urging the women to study the ques-
ton and the men to vote yes on
September 10. Mrs. Mcmahon was
given the privilege of speaking
through the courtesy of Mgr. Bogret of
the Bijou and the Gladys Klark Com
pany.-
| At Kampden Mrs Mcmahon ad-
dressed a parlor meeting, May 10, and
during the week she will speak at Hig-
gins Classical Institute in Charleston,
at Orrineton. and at one or two other
| places in the vicinity of Bangor. The
coming week she is planning to spend
| in Washington county.
"Have you alwaya been a suffragist?''
was asked Mrs. Mcmahon and laugh
ingly she replied. yes, almost ever
since I opened my eyes. and then she
went on seriously to explain how she
| became interested in the movement.
| Several years ago when taking
special course in Rochester, n. Y.
| University, she listened to a lecture on
| suffrage by Prof Potter. Among other
| things Prof. Potter said that it was
! lust as unintelligent in these days for
| q person not to know where he or she
! stands as to suffrage as it was in the
| sixties for person to fail to stand
| either for or against states rights. 1t
| is the question of the day. Everyone
ought to be informed on the subject
| Mrs. Mcmahon thought the matter
| over. considered Prof. Potter's state
ment reasonable, and at once she
| started serious study of the subject.
| Soon she became actively interested in
| the work. giving all her spare time to
the movement and doing very effective
work in the press department.
| She was in the Ohio campaign 1912
| 1914, taking charge of the organization
! in 1913 and working to the finish of the
| campaign in 1914, when Mrs. LELAND,
president Of the Minnesota Associa-
| ton, summoned her to that state. She
was looking for someone to undertake
the organization work and, by the
way, was negotiating with jeanette
Rankin, now Minnesota's represent
alive in Congress.
1t was finally arranged that Mrs
! Mcmahon fill the position in Minnesota
but not long had she been in the har-
ness, when New York was in the midst
of it's great campaign. Although Min
ncsota wanted her for state work she
generously gave Mrs. Mcmahon as
gift to New York for campaign activ-
tiles.
And, later on it was Minnesota's
pleasure to contribute Mrs. Mcmahon
to the Iowa campaign and after it's
close to South Dakota, where she. was
one CT the most successful workers in
the campaign.
Therefore, it will be, readily realized
that Mrs. Mcmahon comes into Maine
we'll equipped to help carry forward
the whir.wind campaign. which it is
believed will result in the ballot for
women after the special election on
Sept 10.
Like Miss L. Lola Walker who has
been in the State several weeks and is
doing remarkably satisfactory organ
ization work, Mrs. Mcmahon repre-
sents the National Suffrage Associa-