The Holly chieftain., 1923-09-13
EQUAL RIGHTS CELEBRATION

WHICH TIE women from eleven W est
ern States will participate is to bt
held by the National Woman's Par
ty in Colorado Springs on Sept. 2.
and %. This will be one of the ser
les of anniversary meetings helc
by the Woman's Party in different
sections of the country to commem
crate the holding of the first Equa
Rights Convention in the world
which met seventy-five years age
in Seneca Falls, New York.
Governor Sweet OF Colorado issu
ed a proclamation in the following
terms on August 80:
AS this year marks the seventy
fifth university of the first equal
rights meeting ever held in the
world, and as that historic gather,
ing will be commemorated by wo-
men fom all over the West, at Colp-
RADIO Springs, Saturday and Sunday,
Sept. 22nd. and 23rd, and as it is
fitting that this event shall live in
the minds of the citizens of today,
and as we desire to do special honor
to those Colorado women who have
pioneered in the work OF equal
rights for women, do proclaim by
authority vested in me as Governor
of Colorado, these days as days to
be set aside by the citizens of our
State, to be observed in manner
appropriate to the great occasion
to be celebrated"
Governor Sweet also appointed
a committee of women represent
ing every section of the State. to
take part in the Colorado Springs
celebration as the official repre-
sentatives of the State.
In addition, Mrs. L. A. Miller,
Poet Laureate of the State of Colo
RADIO, who is the chairman of the
committee on local arrangements
has written to women in each State
urging them to take part in this
anniversary celebration.
The principal feature of this cele,
bration will be ceremonial pa,
geant in the Garden of the Gods
on Sept. %, which Will be. even
more magnificent than that pre-
sented by the Woman's Party at
Seneca Falls. New York, on July
2lst., before an audience of more
than ten thousand people. This
pageant. consists of, first, process
sional of five hundred young wo,
men carrying the purple. white
and gold banners OF the Woman's
Party, which have travelled from
coast to coast. and been used Oh
many memorable occasions in pa
geants of various descriptions;
second. a tsbleau of the first Equal
Rights Convention featuring Iu-
cretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, and the other founders OF the
Equal Rights movement; third,
tableau of Western pioneers
featuring Dr. Aida Avery, the first
woman physician in Colorado, aud
the first President of the terri
torial woman suffrage association;
Reverend Eliza Tupper Wilkes OF
Colorado Springs; Helen Hunt
Jackson, the novelist; Laura de
Force Gordon, attorney of Californ
la, and Emily Pitt Stevens who
edited a feminist paper in early
days in the same state; Mrs Abby
H. Stuart and Mrs. Mary Olney
Brown OF Washington; Mrs. Milton
Kelley and Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell
of Idaho; Miss Hannah K, Clapp
and Mrs. Frances A. Williamson.
Nevada Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells
and Cornelia Paddock of Utah;
Mrs. Ester Morris of Wyoming and
Mrs. L. c. Hughes of Arizona: and
fourth, a recessional of. all those
upon the stage, led by two new
banners of the Woman's Party.
We demand an Amendment to the
United States Constitution giving
Equal Rights to Women, and (the
text of the amendments Men and
Women Shall Have Equal Rights
Throughout the United States and
Every Place Subject to its Juris'
diction.
This equal rights celebration has
two cardinal objects: first, that the
country may learn more OF the
achievements of the great women
of the past whose memories are too
little honred; and second, that pub
lie sentiment may be aroused thro.
ughout the country in support OF
the proposed amendment to the
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