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Show RALLY IS HELD BY THE WOMAN'S PARTY Mrs. Inez Milholland Bois-sevaine Bois-sevaine and Miss Helen Todd the Speakers. ATTENDANCE IS LARGE Severely Criticise Wilson and Give a Warning to the Republicans. Mrs. Inez Milholland HoUse value, the noted New York beauty. lawyer and surra sur-ra go leafier, and Miss Helen Todd of San Vruncisco, who has a na t tonal ropuia-llnn ropuia-llnn as a champion of woman suffrage, were greeted last night by an audience that filled the Salt Lako theater almost to its -;i parity. The occasion was a grand rally in the 1 lira ler, held under the auspices of the "Woman's party, and the big audience in 1 Ik- i hen !:! was largely of the gentler hw, though there was a good sprinkling uf men it Iso. The playhouse was appropriately decorated dec-orated for the occasion in the colors of the Woman's party and the stage was set ns an artist k- drawing room, with dec-tn-n I tons of the party colors, purple and Huld, an. I chrysanthemums. On the stage, in addition to the speaker and the chairman chair-man of the evening, Mrs. Margaret Zane 'herd i on, wove a number of t lie leading 'Worn rui's party and suffrage women of the city. A n orchestra entertained the audience hp fore the regular programme of the evening opened and during the programme Jl iss Jane Sands rendered beautifully two vocal selections, singing "One Fine Day," from "Madame Buuerriy," and an encore selection. Money Is Contributed. During the evening M iss Jane Pincus of the local Woman's party organization called upon the audience to help the cause oi suffrage in a financial way and in collections and pledges raised several hundred hun-dred dollars toward campaign expenses. Miss Todd was the first speaker of the evening and Mrs. Boissevnine concluded the programme. Both made tirgent appeals ap-peals to the women of the west to stand together to defeat the Democratic party, because of its refusal to enfranchise women, and to stand together in the light for woman suffrage until every woman wom-an in the 1'nlted States enjoys the same suffrage privileges as do the men. The hour had grown rather late when Mrs. Chordron introduced jIrs. Boissevaine Boisse-vaine and the speaker observed that owing to the lateness of the hour she would make her remarks brief. "It is too late to go into the details of a political speech," said she. "I think It would be better to have you ask questions. ques-tions. There is not much left for me to sav on the subject before us after Miss Todd has finished. I think that everyone every-one is converted to the Woman's party, even those with legal minds. Have you any questions to ask?'' Urged to Speak. i "We want to hear from you," said a voice in the audience. "Oh. dear," remarked the speaker. "Well, I hardly know what to tell you. I want to say, though that we women are banding togother to get our rights and we propose to get them. We are not for any party, have no politics and no party interests in-terests save the one object of gaining the right of suffrage for women. I say this, not only for the Democratic party, but for the Republican party as well, for wo are not for any party, but we are for women and their rights. What we want is that the women shall put the stamp of their disapproval upon the party that has refused to recognize women and their rights. "The Democrats said that the women would not stand together. We will fool them. The Democrats said the women would not deliver the votes. They believed be-lieved It. But we will deliver the votes. We. will stand together and will get our rights. "We 'have had some support in our cause by individual Democrats, but It Js not the support of the Indivivdual that counts In this matter. It is the party record and plans that count. The southern south-ern Democrats are the ones that are against the women. I don't know just why. unless they are afraid to give them freedom, or because they believe In the cllnging-vlne type of women, but they nre opposed to the freedom of women. They are to blame for our lack of en-f en-f ranclilsement now. We are held tn disfranchisement dis-franchisement by the men who fostered slavery and who are guilty of violating the law even now by lynching. Coercion Alleged. "And every Democrat in congress w-ho is not in line with the policy of his party is coerced into line. He Is denied appropriations ap-propriations for his district, and this brings him to time, for he is hungry, and lie don't want to be away from Washing-tun Washing-tun during the next four years. They did not want the child labor bill, but they were forced in line to vote for it. bo I say it is not the individual we must look to. but to the whole body. "President Wilson himself has said that to get action you must sway the entire organization, not count upon the individual." indi-vidual." Airs. Boissevain said- that some people were inclined to ask If this were the opportune time to agitate the national BUffrage matter. She declared it is. Miss Todd In her address, told the audi-ence audi-ence that she brought a message from the women of the mills, the factories, the cotton fields and the sweat shops, who are crying for suffrage that they may pet an eight-hour law and other condition? necessary to the welfare and well being of the women of the nation. She related the history of the battle In California for suffrage and how it had been won through the votes of the country districts. Conditions Described. Then she described the deplorable conditions con-ditions under which girls and children work in the factories and cotton fields in the south and In the mills of the ast. declaring that suffrage with the women wo-men to demand an eight-hour law is the onlv salvation for these unfortunate women wo-men who in many instances are driven Into vice to earn the three mcais a day necessary to their lives. "Mr. Wilson Is the man who Mocks the door to the liberty of women." declared de-clared the speaker. She Then told of tiie unsuccessful fight for suffrage in Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, and said that vice and illiteracy in the hands of men caused the failure. Slip told how representatives of 9.000.000 women workers had appealed to the president pres-ident for suffrage and had been turned down. "The woman who will not stand for and fight for a federal amendment giving the vote to women is false to her sex," declared the speaker. Warning Is Given. She said (Kit Mr. RoosnveU. Mr. Hughes nnd Senator Sutherland of "tan bad proven themselves friends of the women's cause, and thi brought much applause from the audience. 'Tf the Republican party double-crosses us on this suffrage matter." declared Mips Todd, "we will wipe it off the map. "As for Wilson kephic us nut of war." continued the speaker, "we need no one man to keep us out of war. (live the franchise to the women and the women will keep the lnlted States out of ar. We need no one man to do 'it." |
