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of Mrs. Walter Hackett, has arranged
for special music for Tuesday night.
Mrs. Blanche MacNees Larsen will
will also Rev. J. Renwick Mccullough.
Tuesday afternoon, tea will be given
at the Masonic Hall, at which the visi-
|-tors and the Kandiyohi County Women
will have an opportunity to meet each
other socially. Mrs. Geo. Winney will
have charge of this tea; and it promises
to be one of the most interesting events
of the meeting.
In the Press and in the discussion
which is apparently going on all over
the State, as to the proposed program
of the League of Women Voters there
seems to have arisen some confusion as
| to the method by which that organiza-
ton can preserve it's principle by nom
party utilization and still not oppose the
entrance of women into political parties.
| Perhaps a few questions and answers as
| to the Leagues purposes may help to
clarity this confusion:
1. Is the League of Women Voters
| a political party? A simple negative
| should suffice to answer that question.
2. Is the League opposed to the prin-
| ciple of Government by Political part
| les? No, Women as we'll as men recog-
| nize the fact that political parties con-
stitute the machinery of Government in
the United States; they have done so
any coherent system of government has
| obtained in our country and will prob
| ably continue so to do indefinitely. But
| the League Of Women Voters believes,
| and will act upon the belief, that the
real spirit of America is not bounded
! by the horizon Of any one political
| party nor any one political creed. In
4 AL lands kAo@ H@I: =
will act on upon the belief, that Poll
| teal parties were meant to be the tools
of Government-not its masters The
League recognizes the fact that it can
] not perfect it's program nor put over
! it's platform in any way but one. That
] one way consists in seeing that it's
/ platform becomes incorporate in the
] platform of the great National parties.
1 The strength of the League will lie in
the mass of it's adherents as we'll as in
/ the quality of it's program. The thing
/ which will interest the parties to in
corporate the platform Of the League
| will be mainly in the numbers of indi-
viduals voters who form the member
ship Of that League. The Leagues as
support of the individuals which COM
pose it's membership will be back of
| principals rather than purely party is
! sues.
3. Will the League of Women Voters
then, attempt to influence women
against joining Political Parties? Ger
tainly not. To do so would be para
from voting, i'm this state, for some of
the most important offices Of Govern
ment, in some states it would deprive
them from voting at all. Thus to do so
would rob the League of all power. It
| will rather urge women to enroll in the
party of their choice after due consid-
Grafton and study the principles of that
party 1t will never urge her, however,
| to become a slave to party platforms,
| nor to consider the scratching of a
ticket an objectionable sin. In these
| last two items, women will have the
| support Of the best male voters Of the
| county as we'll as the backing Of the
! League.
d.. What then is the League of
! Women Voters? It is the educated and
| organized public opinion of the women
| of America both in and out of the poll
teal parties not for partizan issues,
| but to present and stand behind a plat
| form Of social and moral issues. It is
the middle ground where the altrustic
thought of the national parties may
| find congenialment of state and nation
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS.
IF ever the world sees time when
women shall come together purely and
| simply for the benefit and good of man.
| kind, it will be as power such as the
world has never know. "-Matthew Ar
| mold.
The LOCAL COMMITTEE wishes to
make it very clear, that the men are
invited and urged to be present at
as many of these sessions az possible,
| and also at the Banquet. The meetings
will be equally interesting to them.
PROGRAMME
| Organization and Conference, 9TH
Congressional District of Minnesota,
League Of Women Voters.
! Sessions Masonic Hall, February End
and 3rd, 1920.
Monday afternoon, 500 O'Clock.
Mrs. John serrin, Chairman OF the 9TH
District, presiding. :
Welcome by Mrs. Serrin.
Presidents 'Address-Mrs. Andreas Uel-
and, State President. -
"Womens Clubs and Americanizatiop"-
Mrs Russell splcer.
Temporary Orgaization. & ~
Monday 7veaias. 500 O'clock.
Mrs. LELAND presiding. .. 49,
The New Comradeship" Attorney
Henry g. Young of the American Leg
Vocal solo--Mrs: Blanche MacNses
Larsen. e>s@rr -. i. !. y r. :
THE League OF Women Voters and Poll
j teal SsIearties'---Mrs Walter Thorp,
State Press Chairman.
Vocal .solo--Rey. Renwick Mccul-
loush. ..:5