Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-26
SUFFRAGE women
HOLD MEETING
Hamilton County Suffrage Association
Holds Largely Attended Meet
ing at 0. J. Henderson
Home Saturday.
MRS. PAsSIG CHIEF SPEAKER
Mrs. F. A. Boysen and Mrs. Eiiie
McCOllum Jones Also Spoke
at Meet.

The most largely attended meeting
in the history of the Hamilton County.
Suffrage Association was held Satur-
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
o. J. Henderson, with Mrs. J. L. Kam-
rar, the president, in charge. The
occasion of this special outpouring OF
enthusiasm was the celebration OF the
recent great victory in New York
state where the women on November
6, won full enfranchisement by a
splendid majority.
One of the speakers for the meeting
was Mrs. F. "A. Boysdh, who gave
very graphic and interesting report OF
the recent suffrage convention in Des
Moines. She dwelt upon the fine spirit
and the enthusiasm of the delegates.
the careful plans made for future work
and compared this gathering with two
other state conventions of women
which she has attended this year
the Iowa Federation of Clubs and the
w. C. r. U.-showing that in all three
there had been high note of earnest
ness in public service and wise lead
ership of an intelligent following. Mrs.
Boysen was frequently interrupted by
applause and so good report is like
ly to make her favorite delegate
from any society to which she be-
longs.
DR.. Effie McCollum Jones also
spoke, Analysing the New York VIC
tory and saying that the New York
women had won the ballot for them
selves by thorough organization; by
careful use of all legitimate political
influence; because that state has a
large number of earnest women with
some leisure and means to give to a
cause in which they are concerned:
and especially, because the war has
wakened the world to the value Of
true democracy. DR.. Jones paid a
peTsCnat tfIOute to seSefai u .Ie
great leaders of the Empire state cam
paign, who are personally known to
her. She also gave full credit to
President Wilson and those members
of his Cabinet who threw their per-
sonal influence into the scale IN full
fillment of their platform promises.
She prophesied that the next Con-
gress wul pass the Federal suffrage
and thus that the women
of the whole country, like the women
of Canada and England, will secure
their acknowledgements in the midst of
the war.
Mrs. Passig Speaks
The chief speaker of the afternoon
was Mrs. Sadie H. Passig, of Hum
boldt, who has been heard here be-
fore and whose presence assures q
crowd Mrs. Passig speaks enthusi-
astically and with delightful flashes
Of humor and her audience was with
her from start to finish. She read a
of letters from New York
soldiers in which they asserted that as
they were going abroad to fight for
democracy they wanted to DO their
bit to leave complete democracy be-
hind them in this country. Mrs. Pas
sig dwelt upon the additional forty
five electoral votes which the women
of New York will help to elect in the
next presidential election and estim-
ated the influence this extra power
will have upon Congress as well as
upon politics in that and neighboring
states. If anyone has felt that women
want the vote simply to be like men
they were corrected by this address,
which emphasized the appeal for bet
Ter protective legislation for home and
and showed how already
some of the worst opponents of such
legislation in New York have swung
over since they need to appeal to
voters.
Mrs. Passig is the type OF suffragist
Who will make friends for her cause
everywhere. Gracious and fair in all
she says, she feels the true enthusi-
ISM OF a prophet and reformer and
makes all who hear her share it with
Ter. Fully seventy-five women pack
ID the rooms TO hear her aud the other
speakers and everyone present was
delighted with the program and the
onward looking plans suggested to
urther the cause in Iowa.
Quite 4 number of women were pre-
sent from the other towns of the coun-
y and a series of these county meet
ngs is being planned for the winter.
A. r. Gardiner of Humboldt. man
ager OF the Lane-Moore lumber yard