The Suffragist, vol. 2, no. 37, September 12, 1914, p. 3

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CAMPAIGN THROUGH THE COUNTRY

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Section of Suffrage Pageant on Boardwalk at Adlantic City

Over Half of the People in Washington EAT CORBY'S BREAD-WHY?

Mass Mecting at Atlantic City culminating event of the summer campaign at Atlantic City took the form of a mass meeting on Sunday evening, September 6th. Senator Clapp of Minnesota made the principal speech. Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, National Press Chairman for the Union, who had been conducting the campaign during August, presided. Mrs. Anna Lowenburg of Philadelphia, Miss Anna McCue, and Miss Elizabeth Smith made short speeches preceding the very stirring address by Senator Clapp.

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The audience packed the auditorium and several hundred people stood during the entire meeting, applauding vigorously. A collection was taken for the fall campaign.

By far the most unique method of advertising ever seen on the far-famed boardwalk was the Greek pageant which took place on Saturday, and was used to announce the Sunday meeting. Ten young women took the parts of the ten enfranchised states. Dressed in classic robes of spotless white, and carrying silver shields on their right arms, bearing the names of the states, they made an unforgetable picture as they rolled along under a cloudless blue sky, flying the beautiful purple, white and gold colors of the Union. They acted as ushers on Sunday evening, as well. Those who took the parts were Miss Erma Kirkman of North Carolina, Miss Minnie Abbott of Atlantic City, Miss Deborah Steelman of Pleasantville, N. J., Minerva Baltasaitis of Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. W. R. Kearns of New York City, Miss Marguerite Cordtmeyer of Woodside, L. I., Miss Elizabeth Smith of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago, Ill, and Miss Anna McCue of Philadelphia.

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The mass meeting made the thirty-ninth formal ndoor meeting held in Atlantic City during August, under the auspices of the Congressional Union. Tourists from every state in the Union attended these meetings. Many joined the Union ind became subscribers to the Suffragist. All of hese new and enthusiastic members will carry ack to their home towns a new message of hope ind rally another circle of supporters to the Fedral amendment.

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The booth proved the most attractive spot in he Exposition Building. It was literally choked vith eager women after the daily meetings, who lesired to learn more about the work of the Jnion and its efforts for the passage of the ederal suffrage measure. Throngs of people baused at the beoth to buy literature and to disuss the great question of votes for women.

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The campaign was replete with interesting vents and must surely result in an abundant harrest. In the Northwest Mrs. Gertrude S. Hunter of Minneapolis has just reached Los Angeles after a trip through the northwestern part of the country, during which she aroused a great deal of interest in the Federal amendment work. She writes of a meeting at Bakersfield, California:

“Work here in the Summer time is under tremendous difficulties, for you realize it is on the edge of the Mojave Desert and the thermometer reaches 120 degrees in the shade. I had a little meeting of all the club presidents and spoke of the amendment and the work of the Congressional Union. All those present took the names of the Rules Committee and will have letters written to them."

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ISS MABEL VERNON, who is assisting M the Nevada Equal Franchise Society, writes from Reno, Nevada

Miss Anne Martin, the state president, and I have now completed a tour of the entire northern part of the state, travelling about 3,000 miles to reach every mining camp and farming district of the northern counties. After this extensive tour we are able to declare with emphasis and assurance that the miners and ranchers are almost unanimously in favor of woman suffrage. The work has been in large degree personal (a house to house canvass where houses are oftentimes twenty or thirty miles apart), so there has been opportunity to judge the true sentiment of the people. When a vote has been taken at the meetings held, there has always been a chorus of “Ayes" for suffrage and rarely a dissenting “Nay" and the one who is bold enough to object generally gets the laugh from the crowd. The women on the farms are showing particular interest in the question. At Vya in Long Valley a society had been formed in the school house by the women of the valley the Sunday before we arrived. Mrs. Albert Kimble and Miss Inez Luce were active in gathering the women together.

In the town of Gerlach, after an open-air meeting, the women showed their interest by forming an organization immediately, where they stood on the postoffice steps. Mrs. H. L. Norton was elected president. At Sheepshead one of the best meetings of the northern trip was held. About twenty-five people gathered, coming from twenty and thirty miles away and getting up at four o'clock in the morning to be on hand for the speaking at ten. It would seem that such a meeting indicated genuine interest in woman suffrage.

We feel that the country districts will undoubtedly give a big majority for the suffrage amendment. Mabel Vernon, Congressional Union Organizer.

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The Congressional Union at the National Star Spangled Banner Celebration

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Monday, September 7th, at the opening of the National Star Spangled Banner Celebration, attracted more attention than the Suffrage delegation. The occasion was a national one and drew thousands of visitors to Baltimore from all parts of the country. Suffragists were quick to take advantage of the opportunity of bringing their movement concretely to the attention of the visiting hosts. The suffrage section was organized by the Just Government League of Maryland and among the interesting features of the section were the ten beautiful golden chariots representing the ten suffrage states. Each chariot was drawn by two horses and was driven by a Suffragist in white Grecian costume.

A delegation of Washington members of the Congressional Union marched in the procession. Every member of the delegation wore the Congressional Union regalia and carried the purple, gold and white pennant. Exclamations of admiration arose as the colors shone in the sun. Miss Virginia Arnold carried the Congressional Union Banner at the head of the delegation. The “Baltimore Sun," commenting on the celebration, said:

“As the suffrage procession passed by the opinion expressed unanimously was that it was one of the most interesting and representative demonstrations of the kind ever shown in Baltimore and repeated applause issued from the reviewing stands as the women marched by."

Among those in the Washington delegation were Dr. Cora Smith King, treasurer of the National Council of Women Voters and a member of the Advisory Council of the Union; Mrs. Minnie E. Brooke, president of the Chevy Chase Suffrage Club; Mrs. Kate Boekh, Mrs. Mary Correll, Miss Charlotte Johnston, Miss Edythe Hanzsche and Miss Alice Paul.