The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-09-23
Women of County Urged to Contribute

Women of County Urged 10 eohtr1Du'e
The following letter has been re-
ceived by Mrs. E. "A. Mcdowell, Coun-
ty Chairman for the Democratic cam
paign fund:
Mrs. E. A. Mcdowell,
Kingstree, sc.
Nv dear Mrs. Mcdowell:
Please accept my thanks for your
acceptance of the Craftsmanship OF
YOUR county to solicit from the women
contributions to the National Demo-
cratic campaign fund. Our plan is to
organize each county as follows:
1. A County Chairman, appointed
bv the State Chairman
2. The County Chairman, IN turn
appoints an Executive Committee
composed of a County Treasurer, a
County Secretary and two assistants.
8. The County Chairman appoints a
CAPTAIN, who, in turn, appoints her
subcommittee for each voting pre-
cinct or school district, as she thinks
best.
a. The County Executive Committee
will designate a day for an intensive
canvass of all Democratic women
This campaign that we, as women, are
putting on is primarily to solicit con-
tributions from the Democratic wom-
en- of our State, but we do not hesi-
tate to approach and appeal to men
who seem derelict in their duty of con-
tributing to this National need.
5. The County Treasurer will remit
funds collected to the State Treasurer
Mrs. James R. Cain, 1015 Laurens
street, Columbia, S. c. All contrlbu-
tions should be in the hands OF the
State Treasurer not later than the
tenth of October for transmission 10
the National headquarters.
The organization Of your county Is
left largely to your discretion. The
time is too short to attempt UNI
form organization Of every county.
Work by whatever plan you deem
most effective. For towns and cities
the plan of assigning Captains with
their respective teams to the various
streets or wards in house to house
canvass has proved successful in SINH
lar campaigns.
It would be well for you to have a
conference at the court house, particl-
pated in by women from various Sec
tions of your county. Impress upon
them the fact of our responsibility.
That many women were opposed to
the franchise should not deter them
now in doing all within their power
for the couse of Democracy. The
time for discussing equal suffrage is
past; we must realize that it is a
fact. This thought should be i'm
pressed on our women everywhere.
We must forget past differences and
look to the future in the light Of our
responsibilities.
With best wishes for success to you
and your associate workers, am,
Cordially yours,
Mrs. R. A. Cooper,
State Chairman,
The time is too limited and the
women of the county have not be-
come sufficiently interested to per-
feet an efficient campaign at this
time, but it is earnestly hoped that
each woman will be interested enough
to contribute $1.00 to the campaign
fund. 1t does not matter whether you
| have registered or not. Of course, it
is hoped that you have registered.
All good women will want to register.
Whether you believed in suffrage or
not, the responsibility is now upon
you and the outcome places a civic
duty on those women who opposed
suffrage as we'll as those who fav-
ored it. There may come time when
your vote will be needed to stay the
hand of evil from the State. Anyway,
however you may feel about it, be
patriotic enough to contribute your
dollar so that our county n1ey make {:
respectable showing.
Miss Mabel Harper has been
appointed Secretary and Treas
urer. Other members of the Execu-
tive Committee will be chosen later.
A chairman of each voting precinct
will be named. Send all contributions
| m Miss Mabel Harper.