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Show WOMETJ ffl II HUGHES ALLIANCE Mass Meeting to Be Held Next Week to Form a Branch in Utah. Women voters who favor the election of Charles E. Hughes to tho presidency of the United States met yesterday afternoon af-ternoon and made tentative , nrrai.Ke-ments nrrai.Ke-ments for a mass meeting early next week at which the organization of a women's branch of the Hughes alliance, to he statewide iu its scope, will be perfected. per-fected. . ' Jliss Ann Hhodes of Zscw lork, traveling trav-eling juember of the national committee for ilio Hughes alliance, was present at the meeting and made some suggestions for the formation of the orgaur.ation in this state, ft was decideil to have an executive committee appointed troui the central part of the state, in. ordor that meetings may be held handily, and an advisory committee made up of a member from each legislative district. Miss Rhodes announced what was not generally known to the women presentthat pres-entthat Utah has three women on tho national committee for the Hnghes alliance1. They are Mrs. Margaret .ane Cherdron, Mrs. Kecd Smoot and Mrs. lCmmeline B. Wells. Mrs. Cherdron ana Mrs. Smoot were appointed some time ago and Mrs. Wells's uamo has just been added to the list. Senator George Sutherland was present pres-ent at yesterdav 's meeting and was invited in-vited to make a"n address. The senator told of his recent visit with Mr. Hughes iu New York and declared his belief that the Republican nominee would come out strongly for woman suffrage. Several members o the National Women's party, the successor to the Congressional union for Woman. Suffrage, Suf-frage, were present at the meeting. They expressed satisfaction over what Senator Sutherland had said of Mr. Hughes's views on suffrage and all but two of them said they would declare. for Hughes by joining the alliance. The time' and place for the mass meeting, at which a permanant organization organi-zation of the Hughes alliance in Utah will be made, will be announced within a few days. It was decided that the women s branch of the Hughes alliance would co-operate with the men's branch of the alliance, now being formed, and that joint conferences would be held looking look-ing to arrangements for entertaining Judge Hughes when ho visits Salt Lake Citv later in the campaign. Mrs. H. L. Cummins, temporary chairman of the Women's Hughes alliance, alli-ance, presided at yesterday's meeting. Last night Miss Rhodes of. the national na-tional committee loft for Sacramento, where she will assist in the organization organiza-tion of a Hughes alliance. Subsequently Subsequent-ly she will visit San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and then the Pacific Paci-fic northwest. |