"Twelve Medford Women," Salem Daily Capital Journal, October 14, 1912, 1.
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Twelve Medford women will start on a tour of Jackson and Douglas counties in bubble wagons and in the interest of woman suffrage.


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"Suffrage Rally Dates Are Fixed Part 2," Oregonian, October 11, 1912, 3.

 

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SUFFRAGE RALLY DATES ARE FIXED

Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, of
Spokane, Is Expected to
Aid Last Two Weeks.

COLORED WOMEN ARE BUSY

Senator Chamberlain and ex-Senator
Fulton Will Speak at Duniway
Festival October 22—Street
Meetings in Progress.

Reports of progress and the settling of dates for rallies and final activities in the last month of the campaign were the main business matters discussed at the meeting of the state suffrage central campaign committee, yesterday in the Selling building. Delegates from other suffrage societies were present. Colonel Robert Miller and W. M. Davis acted as presidents, both of them making a short speech on organization and co-operation for the final few days.
Among other societies represented was the Milwaukie and Oak Grove society, the delegates for this being the Misses Florence and Frances Dayton, two young women who have been indefatigable in their efforts. 
They reported that Judge Brownell spoke last Wednesday evening in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oregon City before a large audience, and a meeting has been arranged at Jennings Lodge this evening. 

Mrs. Hutton May Come.

During the afternoon it was announced that in all probability Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, the first woman delegate to the National Democratic convention in Washington would come down to help on the last two weeks of the campaign. In addition to her, Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel has been secured by the state association to do organization work until November 5.
The Colored Women’s Equal suffrage League is to have a big meeting on October 22, when they will hear an address by their bishop on suffrage.
William M. Davis, the president of the Men’s Equal Suffrage Association, announced that the society would hold street meetings almost every night from now until the end.
In default of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, who was unable to make the trip to Portland for the rally October 22, when Mrs. Duniway reaches the age of 78, Mrs. H. W. Coe, acting president of the state league, has secured ex-Senator Fulton and Senator Chamberlain as the speakers for the occasion.

Rallies Are Numerous

Special efforts to reach the voters will be made by the state association by means of rallies. The first of these is announced for this evening at 8 o’clock, in the First Universalist Church, Twenty-fourth and Broadway, Irvington. Among the speakers for the occasion are: Rev. J. D. Corby, John F. Logan, Mrs. Helen Miller Senn, Rev. Luther R. Dyott and W. M. Davis.  Mrs. H. W. Coe will preside.

Tomorrow evening, at Hillsboro, in the opera-house, there will be the second of the series, starting at the same hour, 8 P. M. Colonel Robert Miller, Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel and Mrs. Helen Miller Senn speak here.

Kept secret and for three weeks, too, by more than one woman.

In the vernacular, “what do you know about that?”

Had they not been suffragists the thing would have been impossible. However, the new suffrage club, for that is what was kept secret, was sprung all of a sudden, and with overwhelming force upon an unsuspecting crowd who heard Dr. Anna Shaw speak at the Portland Hotel.  In the stress of the moment people thought it was an advertising scheme.

Everybody’s League Formed

Since then, however, this club, which rejoices in the appropriate title of “Everybody’s Equal Suffrage League,” has gone on its way serenely. “It aims at getting you and me and everybody and also it frankly aims at getting our money,” said a subscriber, “but for the expenditure of 25 cents, you have the inestimable advantage of knowing that you are vice-president of at least one organization. You can forget that everybody else is also a vice-president who has put up a modest two-bits.  Dr. Pohl Lovejoy is the only president, for the idea began with her.
“The members do not stand on ceremony nor do they believe in parliamentary law or etiquette. A meeting is held whenever two or more meet, and any one may talk or all may talk, provided they want to. The meeting places are somewhat scriptural, inasmuch as wheresoever two or more are gathered together, there is a meeting of the Everybody’s Equal Suffrage League.”
Occasionally they get rebuked as for instance, when three members went into a wine shop to purchase their grape juice for the week end. Not that they were summarily ejected, far from it, for the man wanted their custom, but he had put up $25, or had been forced to do so to aid in the fight by the saloon men against equal suffrage, and so he told them that they could not get him to vote for the movement. Nor would he give them 25 cents. 


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"Suffrage Rally Dates Are Fixed Part 1," Oregonian, October 11, 1912, 3.

 

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SUFFRAGE RALLY DATES ARE FIXED

Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, of
Spokane, Is Expected to
Aid Last Two Weeks.

COLORED WOMEN ARE BUSY

Senator Chamberlain and ex-Senator
Fulton Will Speak at Duniway
Festival October 22—Street
Meetings in Progress.

Reports of progress and the settling of dates for rallies and final activities in the last month of the campaign were the main business matters discussed at the meeting of the state suffrage central campaign committee, yesterday in the Selling building. Delegates from other suffrage societies were present. Colonel Robert Miller and W. M. Davis acted as presidents, both of them making a short speech on organization and co-operation for the final few days.
Among other societies represented was the Milwaukie and Oak Grove society, the delegates for this being the Misses Florence and Frances Dayton, two young women who have been indefatigable in their efforts. 
They reported that Judge Brownell spoke last Wednesday evening in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oregon City before a large audience, and a meeting has been arranged at Jennings Lodge this evening. 

Mrs. Hutton May Come.

During the afternoon it was announced that in all probability Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, the first woman delegate to the National Democratic convention in Washington would come down to help on the last two weeks of the campaign. In addition to her, Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel has been secured by the state association to do organization work until November 5.
The Colored Women’s Equal suffrage League is to have a big meeting on October 22, when they will hear an address by their bishop on suffrage.
William M. Davis, the president of the Men’s Equal Suffrage Association, announced that the society would hold street meetings almost every night from now until the end.
In default of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, who was unable to make the trip to Portland for the rally October 22, when Mrs. Duniway reaches the age of 78, Mrs. H. W. Coe, acting president of the state league, has secured ex-Senator Fulton and Senator Chamberlain as the speakers for the occasion.

Rallies Are Numerous

Special efforts to reach the voters will be made by the state association by means of rallies. The first of these is announced for this evening at 8 o’clock, in the First Universalist Church, Twenty-fourth and Broadway, Irvington. Among the speakers for the occasion are: Rev. J. D. Corby, John F. Logan, Mrs. Helen Miller Senn, Rev. Luther R. Dyott and W. M. Davis.  Mrs. H. W. Coe will preside.

Tomorrow evening, at Hillsboro, in the opera-house, there will be the second of the series, starting at the same hour, 8 P. M. Colonel Robert Miller, Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel and Mrs. Helen Miller Senn speak here.

Kept secret and for three weeks, too, by more than one woman.

In the vernacular, “what do you know about that?”

Had they not been suffragists the thing would have been impossible. However, the new suffrage club, for that is what was kept secret, was sprung all of a sudden, and with overwhelming force upon an unsuspecting crowd who heard Dr. Anna Shaw speak at the Portland Hotel.  In the stress of the moment people thought it was an advertising scheme.

Everybody’s League Formed

Since then, however, this club, which rejoices in the appropriate title of “Everybody’s Equal Suffrage League,” has gone on its way serenely. “It aims at getting you and me and everybody and also it frankly aims at getting our money,” said a subscriber, “but for the expenditure of 25 cents, you have the inestimable advantage of knowing that you are vice-president of at least one organization. You can forget that everybody else is also a vice-president who has put up a modest two-bits.  Dr. Pohl Lovejoy is the only president, for the idea began with her.


“The members do not stand on ceremony nor do they believe in parliamentary law or etiquette. A meeting is held whenever two or more meet, and any one may talk or all may talk, provided they want to. The meeting places are somewhat scriptural, inasmuch as wheresoever two or more are gathered together, there is a meeting of the Everybody’s Equal Suffrage League.”


Occasionally they get rebuked as for instance, when three members went into a wine shop to purchase their grape juice for the week end. Not that they were summarily ejected, far from it, for the man wanted their custom, but he had put up $25, or had been forced to do so to aid in the fight by the saloon men against equal suffrage, and so he told them that they could not get him to vote for the movement. Nor would he give them 25 cents. 


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"Pioneer Oregon Suffragist Is Happy," Oregon Journal, October 11, 1912, 14.

 

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PIONEER OREGON SUFFRAGIST IS HAPPY
Believes Her Life’s Fondest Dream Is Near Realization

[Pictures of Duniway at 78 and 35, as well as a picture of a house]
Above—Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway today and at 35. Below—House in Albany, Or., in which Mrs. Duniway lived about 1865.

WITH a life crowned with a multitude of great and noble deeds and with a mind as bright and clear as it was 60 years ago, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway is giving and receiving much pleasure by greeting her seventy-eighth birthday anniversary, at her home in Clay street.

Rare indeed is the Oregonian who does not know something of the life and accomplishments of this remarkable woman. The story of her life is an additional proof of the truth of that trite axiom, “truth is stranger than fiction.”—but Mrs. Duniway herself tells it better than anyone else could, so here it is very briefly from her own lips.

“Just after I had passed my seventeenth birthday my father and mother and we children left our home in Illinois and started across the plains with a team of oxen; that was in 1852. My dear mother was stricken with the cholera and died in the Black Hills of Wyoming, leaving her motherless brood to continue their journey west with their father and settle in the wilds of Oregon territory, then compromising [sic] what is now Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

“In 1853 I was married to Mr. Duniway and we settled on a farm in Clackamas county. After four years we sold the Clackamas county farm and purchased what is now known as the Millard-Lonsdale farm, where we lived for five years in much the same fashion as we had in Clackamas county. In all probability, we would have lived and died there as it was a beautiful farm, but for a heavy debt which took the farm and its belongings and left us stranded in the village of Lafayette where my husband became a chronic invalid, the result of an accident with a team, and from which he died a few years later.

“Not knowing how to spell defeat, I opened a private school and boarding house. It being impossible to secure assistance in the home, I would arise at 3 o’clock in the summer and 4 in the winter to care for the house, family and boarders. At 9 o’clock I would open school and teach, with the intermission of noon hour, until 4 in the afternoon, when I would return to cook and otherwise care for my numerous household.

“After four years spent in Lafayette, we sold our belongings and removed to Albany, where I taught for several years. I studied very hard in order to keep ahead of my pupils and after mastering simple mathematics, I managed to conquer algebra and geometry. One of my specialties was my own method of teaching grammar.

Pioneer Advocates of Suffrage

“Finding school teaching not sufficiently remunerative for the needs of my growing family, I sold the school house and embarked in millinery, which I followed for six years with success. When I sold this business I came to Portland and established the New Northwest, a weekly paper; that was in May 1871. I published the paper for 16 years. At the end of that time I gave up active business and have since devoted my time to work in the interests of womankind, being, as everyone knows, a pioneer advocate for suffrage. The very facts and theories for teaching which I was practically ostracized, are the accepted theories of today. Many declared in my younger days that through my teachings I was preparing my children for the penitentiary, but instead, one of my sons is the state printer of Oregon, another is president of the University of Wyoming, another is a successful merchant in New York, still another is associated with the telegram here, and the fifth is a lawyer in this city.

“The great changes in this northwest country and particularly in Portland are almost beyond belief. When I came here there were only a few thousand people in Portland. The growth and expansion of the cities and country of this section has been notable and yet substantial. I have never ceased in my efforts to put women on equal footing with men and I am so happy that now in the sunset of my life my fondest dream is beginning to be realized.”

Mrs. Duniway, whose birthday and anniversary falls on October 22, is to be honored with a reception. Mrs. Duniway is recovering very nicely from a long illness and as she pluckily said: “I expect to be at the reception if I have to be carried. I went to the luncheon for Dr. Anna Shaw the other day and though I could not stand, I just had to talk, so I was like the Dutchman’s hen that ‘set a standing,’ and I ‘stood a sitting.’”

 


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"Her Voting," Monmouth Herald, October 11, 1912, 5.
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Her Voting

“It is feared that women will neglect their homes for the polls” –Argument of the Antis.

Oh! wicked women, can it be
That in your new-found energy
You would from home and baby stay
And vote and vote the livelong day?

O Women! Can they all be true–
The awful things they say of you?
Would you neglect your breed of six
To spend each day in politics?

Would you go out at morning light
And stay until the dark of night
To cast your ballots every day?
Must woman’s vote be cast that way?

Is home to see you never more?
We’ve heard of naught of that before
With ‘Lection Day (the truth I seek)
For women come seven days a week?

Our husbands, fathers, brothers go
To vote. It takes an hour or so
With months between – yet, you I note,
will juggle a contentious vote.

–Lurana Sheldon in New York Times.


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