Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-13
800 WOMEN TO GATHER
FUNDS FOR DEMOCRATS
Feminine Army to Campaign il
Streets OF Richmond
October 1S.
DEMOCRATIC BUTTON DAY"
City Committee Fixes Date and
Completes the Preliminaries.
Women to Organize II Cox and
RUoscvclt Campaign Club.

Five hundred Democratic women.
Campaigning under the Cox ana
Roosevelt banner. constitute the army
the City Democratic Committee will
send out into the highways of Rich
inand TO solicit contributions to tho
party campaign fund on Democratic
Button Day, the date for which was
fixed by tho committee at a meeting
held in Murphy's Hotel Annex last
night. as Monday. October IS;
The women will operate in bands of
i've. from 100 stations distributed
through the four wards OF the city.
Volunteers are called for Immediate
~. Those who desire to serve with
the feminine phalanX will report to
general chairman. or any OF the four
ward chairmen, who were chosen last
night TO serve until tomorrow night
when organization of the body of So
licitors will he effected at another
meeting of the full committee. The
ward chairmcn are:
Ward Chnlrmcn.
Lee Ward. Mrs. Carter w. Wormc-
son: Madison Ward. Mrs. Eula Young
Morrison: Jefferson Ward, Miss Mabel
Dobbins.
The ward chairmcn were chosen
from the advisory and associate mem
hership. They will report at tonor-
row nights meeting the names OF the
women who are TO serve in the ranks
on Democratic Button Day.
advisory branch of the committee was
completed last night. Chairman John
NJ Purcell presided over 4 body of
almost half hundred committeeman
and committccwomen, there being few
abscntccS.
Chairmen of the ward delegations
submitted supplementary reports,
supplying nominations for the various
adopted, The associate membership
was then announced as follows:
Ass""inte Membershir;.
r!son, Miss Nora :. Hammer. Miss
Nora Houston. Miss Lucy X. Mason,
Mrs. u. L. Puliiam and Miss Emma
Lee Ward--Mrs. Charles L. Lea.
Miss Emma w. Morris. Mrs. Samuel
I. Martin. Miss Marie Leahy. Mrs. Z.
Il. Gwathncy. Mrs. {. G.. Bosher. Mrs.
Jefferson ward-Mrs. lila Il. Kline.
Mrs. Clin Dowdy. Miss Emma Robe
lin, Mrs. Mollie Wiltshire, Miss Mabel
Clay Ward-Mrs. Cora Tailey, Mrs.
Frank L. Jobson. Mrs. BETTY Pace
iiayes, Miss Annie Long. Mrs. Hiram
NJ. smith. Mrs. James Ware Durham.
Mrs. q; r. w. Kern and Mrs. l.. T.
Stanard.
Suggests Club for Women.
Following the adoption OF the re-
ports, Chairman Purcell suggested
the organization OF Democratic
Campaign Club for women only.
Committeewoman Adele Clark coin
cided with the chairman's views as to
such AN organization. She said the
women needed only 10 be informed as
TO the best method OF proceeding with
| organization She bespoke large
ana active membership. Several mem
bcrs of the committee favored plac-
ing the matter entirely in the hands
o! the two active women members
and the iwcnty-eight associates.
~ ID
discussion
Chairman Purcell speaking for the
committee in charge OF the proposed
big rally TO be held in the City Audi
committee had not negotiated sue
ccssiuiiy with the Washington bureau
OF The nai!ona! committee. He ex-
pia!heu mat IN" demand for speakers
" national reputation is greater than
the Washington bureau can supply
All OF the noted men for whose serv-
| .c.s ne committee applied are in de-
! Inand in other cities, he said lie had
Also requested that a woman speaker
| be sent 10 Richmond. but no satisfac-
tory response had been made.
| Would Send Out Gail.
MISS Clark suggested calling unon
! prominent Richmond women 10 val
nntcer as Speakers for big public
! tel! the women o: Richmond why they
/ are voting Ia: Cox and Roosevelt,
ana why it's the civic duty Of every
! white woman in Richmond TO vote
I Inc straight Democratic ticket
l Secretary Walter -; Duke Informed
N" committee that unexpected diff
| hcnlty had been experienced in his ef-
| fort 10 comply with the Instructions
! given him 10 obtain $4,000 campaie
huttSIs TO he used on Button Day"
by the fund solicitors. The manufac.
!nreFs are unable 10 supply them in
time. On motion OF Committeeman
George NJ Cease, Secretary Duke was
instructed 20 haEe printed sufficient
! supply OF round tags. which NAV be
used in lieu of buttons FOR taggint.
the Democrats who contribute TO tho
fund next Mondar