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Show Uil'S CAMPAIGN SPECIAL DUE TODAY Famed Hughes Train to Arrive in Salt Lake Early This Afternoon. WELCOME IS PLANNED Informal Reception at Hotel Ho-tel Utah Will Be Followed Fol-lowed by a Dinner. The Women's Hughes campaign special spe-cial train, financed and managed by women, and carrying a score ot' prominent promi-nent women speakefls through an active campaign in twenty-eight states, is scheduled to arrive here from Los Angeles An-geles at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. A delegation of local women supporters support-ers of Mr. Hughes, in automobiles, will meet the visitors at the railroad station and escort them to the Hotel Utah, where an informal reception will be held, during which five-minute talks on 14 Why 1 Am For Hughes" will be made by the members of the visiting party. An informal dinner in honor of the visitors will be given by the local women at the Hotel Utah at b' o'clock. At 11:45 o'clock tonight, some of the visiting speakers will leave for Poea-tello Poea-tello in a special car. The remaining speakers will attend a special organ recital re-cital at the tabernacle at 10 o'clock tomorrow to-morrow morning, after which they will be distributed among various towns from Salt Lake to Provo to make talks this aftornoon. Speakers' Itineraries. According to the present plans Mrs. Elliuott Smith will go to Provo, Mrs. Raymond Robins aud Rheta Child e Door to Garfield, and selected speakers to Bountiful and Ogden. Mary Antin, Prances A. Kellor, Mrs. Maude Howe tilliott and other members of the party will remain at Salt Lake and speak kt a meeting in the lobby of the Hotel Utah. Seuator Sutherland has been invited in-vited to speak at this meeting. Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood will preside. The Pocatello party will return to Salt Lake at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and the special train will leave for the east two hours later. Mrs. Margaret Zane Cherdron will introduce in-troduce the speakers at the informal reception re-ception this afternoon. Senator Reed Smoot has been invited' to preside at the dinner tonight. Short talks will be made by three or four of the visitors at the dinner. The rumor that the train is of tho billion dollar'' variety is vigorously disputed by the advance representatives of the party. They assert that the only pet on the train "is a paper G. 0. P. elephant, and his much-talked-of diamond dia-mond collar is a ten-cent piece of ribbon. rib-bon. They go further and declare that there are only two evening gowns with the party, and that all the women on the train, except two, are self-supporting. The train is made up of an observation car, two compartment sleeping cars, one dining car and one baggage car and the total baggage amounts to nine trncks, four of which belong to the publicity representatives. Members of Party. Included in the party are: Miss Marv Antin, lecturer, author of ''From Plotsk to Boston," "The Promised Prom-ised Iand" and "They Who Knock at Our Gates."' Dr. Katherine B. Davis, former superintendent su-perintendent of the New York State reformatory re-formatory for women, commissioner of correction at New York and now chairman chair-man of the board of parole, New York City. Mrs. William Curtis Demorest, member mem-ber of the Women's Municipal league and composer of verses aud songs. Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, newspaper and magazine writer and editor, formerly for-merly on editorial staff of New York Evening Post, now school editor and editorial and special writer New York Evening Mail, chairman industrial committee, com-mittee, General Federation of Women's Clubs. Dr. Katherine P. Edson, former member mem-ber Los Angeles charter revision commission, com-mission, chairman committee on public health, State Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott, author and lecturer and daughter of Julia Ward Howe. Mrs. Alexander Kohut, vice president of the New York section of the Council of Jewish women member of the New York City mayor s committee on unemployment' unem-ployment' 1914-15. Miss Franke Meb-ane, chairman of North and South Carolina division of National Civic federation, leader in philanthropic movements. Mrs. Raymond Robins, chairman legislative leg-islative committee of Women's Municipal Munici-pal league of New York City, member of executive board of the Chicago Federation Fed-eration of- Labor, member on the committee com-mittee of industrial education, American Federation of Labor; member of the advisory ad-visory committee of the Illinois free state employment offices; chairman industrial in-dustrial committee, Illinois Federation of Women 's Clubs. Mrs. Nelson O 'Shaughnessv, wife of former charge d 'dff aires to Mexico and author of "The Experiences of a Diplomat's Diplo-mat's Wife in Mexico." Miss Elizabeth Freeman, brilliant speaker and prominent social worker. Mrs. Edith Ellicott Smith, president of the Pennsylvania Rural Progress association. as-sociation. Miss Frances A. Kellor, chairman of the women's committee of the National Hughes alliance; an author, lecturer and an authority on immigration: originator and organizer of the national campaign train. Committees Named.- Mrs. E. O. Leatherwood is directing the arrangements for tiie reception and entertainment of the visiting party. The following committees have been appointed appoint-ed to assist her in the work: Executive committee Mrs. George Sutherland, chairman: Mrs. C. W. Nib-ley, Nib-ley, Mrs. Janetta A. Hyde. Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Z. Cherdron, Mrs. Annie Wells Cannon, Mrs. J. R. Davis. Mrs. Henrv Cohn, Mrs. Amy Lyman. Mr. J. F. H. Turner, Mrs. H. L. Cuinmings. Badize committee Mrs. E. H. Callis-I Callis-I ter. Mrs. E. E. Hawxhurst, Mrs. E. J. Callahan. Mrs. A. J. Krauss. Hospital com mir ter Precinct and district chairmen, members of the Republican Re-publican club, candidates and candi- dates' wives, registrars and wives of committeemen. The reception committee consists of more than 100 prominent women of the city. |