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SUFFRAGISTS OUTLINE A CAMPAIGN PLAN

The regular meeting of the College Equal Suffrage league was held yesterday afternoon at the Y.W.C.A., President Mrs. Henry W. Cole, presiding. Dr. Florence Mannion was elected financial secretary of the league. Mrs. Ehrgott outlined a tentative plan of the campaign, including precinct work, automobile tour addresses, parlor meetings and dramatic propaganda. A letter from C. E. S. Wood, urging a campaign among the laboring classes and the socialists, was read.

After a motion to send a committee of three representatives to the forum of the Women’s club to be held next Saturday afternoon had been defeated through the efforts of Mrs. Dr. N. D. Equi, Mrs. Equi, Miss Emma Wold and Mrs. C. E. Grelle were selected to attend the meeting merely as investigators.

The next regular meeting of the league will be held March 19, at a place to be decided upon later.

SUFFRAGISTS JOIN TO CANVASS STATE

Five Portland Organizations Form Central Committee to Manage Campaign.

COUNTIES TO BE INVADED

Special Trains Will Carry Speakers to All Parts of Oregon and Rallies in Cities and Town Are to Be Gala Events.

A co-operative association of the five principal societies in the city organized in the interest of women’s suffrage, was formed yesterday afternoon at a meeting held in the quarters of the Portland Women’s Club campaign committee, on the fifth floor of the Rothchild building. A central committee composed of three representatives from each of the five societies was constituted and will direct the work of the organizations in a state-wide campaign. A unified and harmonious front will thus be presented in the campaign for gaining the ballot for women in Oregon at the general election next November.

The clubs represented are the Multnomah County branch of the State Equal Suffrage Association, the Portland Equal Suffrage Association, the Portland branch of the National College Equal Suffrage League, which was recently organized here, the Men’s Equal Suffrage Club, and the Portland Women’s Club. The central committee will be known as the Equal Suffrage Advisory Committee. The quarters of the Portland Women’s Club campaign committee, in the Rothchild building, will be a general headquarters for the central committee, although the individual organizations will also have their own headquarters. The headquarters, under the direction of the new committee, will be a clearing house for all of the activities of the Portland organizations. By organizing in this manner a broader and clearer view of the field will be obtained, and all the work will be directed systematically and economically.

Leaders of Societies Present.

The following representatives of the different societies were present: Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, president of the Portland Equal Suffrage League; W. M. Davis, president of the men’s organization; Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, president of the Portland branch of the National College Equal Suffrage League; Mrs. A. C. Newall, representing Abigail Scott Duniway, president of the State Equal Suffrage League, and Mrs. Sarah Evans, chairman, and Mrs. Frederick Eggert and Mrs. Dr. Esther C. Pohl, members of the Portland Women’s Club campaign committee. Mrs. Duniway was ill and unable to leave her home and sent Mrs. Newall as her representative, with greetings and good wishes and a letter, which was read to the committee.

It was arranged at the meeting that the forum, established several weeks ago under the auspices of the Portland Woman’s Club, should hereafter be conducted under the auspices of the central committee and that the meetings would be held weekly, instead of bi-weekly as heretofore. The meetings will be held in the auditorium of the Olds, Wortman, & King store, as already arranged. Each of the five organizations will have charge of the forum programme for one week in consecutive order. It is believed that in this way much more interest will be aroused in the campaign and large meetings are looked for. The meeting next Saturday will be held under the auspices of the Woman’s Club.

Canvass of State to Be Made.

Another plan outlined yesterday was for carrying the fight into the country towns of the state in an aggressive and impressive manner. Special trains will be chartered for these occasions and each locality where a meeting is to be held will be thoroughly billed with large posters and placards to attract throngs from the nearby country districts.

Tags and pennants in yellow and black, the official colors of the suffragists, will be distributed throughout the towns in shop windows and wherever permission could be obtained to place them, and the dead walls and fences will be covered with flaring posters. Committees will be appointed in every one of the towns to be visited to arouse enthusiasm in the demonstration. The occasion will be known as “Suffrage day,” and efforts will be made to have these rallying days resemble holidays.

The special trains will carry a galaxy of equal suffrage speakers, including prominent men and women from throughout the country as well as from throughout the state. A brass band and singers will form parts of the complements of the suffrage invasions. Parades will be held in the towns on these occasions and the suffrage badges, colors and mottoes [sic] will be everywhere in evidence.

In the smaller places “Suffrage day” will be more in the nature of a large picnic. At the picnics and also at the meetings in the large towns arrangements will be made to provide dainty viands to all persons from the country coming to participate, on the theory that the way to reach a man is through his stomach.

Something unique in suffrage campaigns, an event that may do more than any other feature to attract attention and arouse inerest [sic] in the suffrage movement, will be a big statewide gathering to be held here during the Elks’ convention in July. Delegates from all parts of the state, representing both men’s and women’s societies, will be in attendance to exchange views and get together for a concentrated effort in November.

SUFFRAGISTS JOIN TO CANVASS STATE

Five Portland Organizations Form Central Committee to Manage Campaign.

COUNTIES TO BE INVADED

Special Trains Will Carry Speakers to All Parts of Oregon and Rallies in Cities and Town Are to Be Gala Events.

A co-operative association of the five principal societies in the city organized in the interest of women’s suffrage, was formed yesterday afternoon at a meeting held in the quarters of the Portland Women’s Club campaign committee, on the fifth floor of the Rothchild building. A central committee composed of three representatives from each of the five societies was constituted and will direct the work of the organizations in a state-wide campaign. A unified and harmonious front will thus be presented in the campaign for gaining the ballot for women in Oregon at the general election next November.

The clubs represented are the Multnomah County branch of the State Equal Suffrage Association, the Portland Equal Suffrage Association, the Portland branch of the National College Equal Suffrage League, which was recently organized here, the Men’s Equal Suffrage Club, and the Portland Women’s Club. The central committee will be known as the Equal Suffrage Advisory Committee. The quarters of the Portland Women’s Club campaign committee, in the Rothchild building, will be a general headquarters for the central committee, although the individual organizations will also have their own headquarters. The headquarters, under the direction of the new committee, will be a clearing house for all of the activities of the Portland organizations. By organizing in this manner a broader and clearer view of the field will be obtained, and all the work will be directed systematically and economically.

Leaders of Societies Present.

The following representatives of the different societies were present: Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, president of the Portland Equal Suffrage League; W. M. Davis, president of the men’s organization; Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe, president of the Portland branch of the National College Equal Suffrage League; Mrs. A. C. Newall, representing Abigail Scott Duniway, president of the State Equal Suffrage League, and Mrs. Sarah Evans, chairman, and Mrs. Frederick Eggert and Mrs. Dr. Esther C. Pohl, members of the Portland Women’s Club campaign committee. Mrs. Duniway was ill and unable to leave her home and sent Mrs. Newall as her representative, with greetings and good wishes and a letter, which was read to the committee.

It was arranged at the meeting that the forum, established several weeks ago under the auspices of the Portland Woman’s Club, should hereafter be conducted under the auspices of the central committee and that the meetings would be held weekly, instead of bi-weekly as heretofore. The meetings will be held in the auditorium of the Olds, Wortman, & King store, as already arranged. Each of the five organizations will have charge of the forum programme for one week in consecutive order. It is believed that in this way much more interest will be aroused in the campaign and large meetings are looked for. The meeting next Saturday will be held under the auspices of the Woman’s Club.

Canvass of State to Be Made.

Another plan outlined yesterday was for carrying the fight into the country towns of the state in an aggressive and impressive manner. Special trains will be chartered for these occasions and each locality where a meeting is to be held will be thoroughly billed with large posters and placards to attract throngs from the nearby country districts.

Tags and pennants in yellow and black, the official colors of the suffragists, will be distributed throughout the towns in shop windows and wherever permission could be obtained to place them, and the dead walls and fences will be covered with flaring posters. Committees will be appointed in every one of the towns to be visited to arouse enthusiasm in the demonstration. The occasion will be known as “Suffrage day,” and efforts will be made to have these rallying days resemble holidays.

The special trains will carry a galaxy of equal suffrage speakers, including prominent men and women from throughout the country as well as from throughout the state. A brass band and singers will form parts of the complements of the suffrage invasions. Parades will be held in the towns on these occasions and the suffrage badges, colors and mottoes [sic] will be everywhere in evidence.

In the smaller places “Suffrage day” will be more in the nature of a large picnic. At the picnics and also at the meetings in the large towns arrangements will be made to provide dainty viands to all persons from the country coming to participate, on the theory that the way to reach a man is through his stomach.

Something unique in suffrage campaigns, an event that may do more than any other feature to attract attention and arouse inerest [sic] in the suffrage movement, will be a big statewide gathering to be held here during the Elks’ convention in July. Delegates from all parts of the state, representing both men’s and women’s societies, will be in attendance to exchange views and get together for a concentrated effort in November.

SUFFRAGISTS WILL WORK IN HARMONY

Equal Suffrage Advisory Committee Organized — “Get Together” Is Slogan.

To promote harmonious effort in their campaign for the rights of the franchise, 10 or 12 Portland suffragists met yesterday afternoon at the headquarters of the Woman’s Club Campaign committee. 507 Rothchild building, and the Equal Suffrage Advisory committee whose slogan shall be “get together for the cause.”

W. M. Davis was chosen chairman of this committee and the membership is to be comprised of three representatives from each of the various equal suffrage associations. The choice of these memberships will be left open, so that the several organizations may be represented by different persons at different times. It is planned to hold an open forum every other Saturday at the auditorium in the Olds, Wortman & King building, and at these sessions the committee members will get together and discuss ways and means for attaining the best results in the campaign. The first forum will be held next Saturday and will be open to the general public as will be the succeeding meetings.

Each organization will continue to work to the desired ends independent of the others, but at the same time they will stand together on a common ground through the joint committee.

Represented at yesterday’s meeting were the College Equal Suffrage league, the Woman’s Club Campaign committee, the Man’s Equal Suffrage club and the State Equal Suffrage association. Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway was too ill to appear in person, but she was represented by Mrs. A. C. Newell.

The joint committee is left open for further membership so that equal suffrage organizations which may be formed during the campaign may be represented on an equal footing with other associations.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE GETS AID FROM THE W.C.T.U.
State and County Organizations Lay Campaign Plans for Summer and Fall.

State and county organizations of the W.C.T.U. have begun to lay out a definite campaign for equal suffrage to extend through the Summer and Fall.
At the meetings of the state executive committee held yesterday and the institute held today much enthusiasm was evinced over the programme which will include widespread dissemination of literature and a series of lectures in different parts of the state by some of the foremost speakers in the country, among them Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president of the National body and Miss Anna Gordon, vice-president; Mrs. Florence Elwell Atkins, of Tennessee, one of the finest speakers on the temperance platform; Mrs. Helen Harford, a National lecturer, and the state president, Mrs. Unruh. The latter has just returned from Eastern Oregon where she gave a series of 20 lectures on equal suffrage before large audiences.
“Our arguments, this year, as in the past,” said Mrs. Unruh, “will be along the lines of the moral benefits to be derived from the granting of the ballot to women.”
Mrs. Lucia Faxon Additon presented the subject at this afternoon’s meeting of the county presidents and the details of the plans were discussed by the members. The greatest activity will begin in June with the arrival of the National president and another period of activity will be in September following the National convention to be held in this city with the White Temple as headquarters. Eight hundred delegates are expected to attend this convention and as many more visiting workers. Richard Hobson will be one of the prominent speakers.