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Show SAY IViRST QUAY IS " IT ADEMOCHAT Obtained Membership Under Un-der False Colors, Club Officials Add. , I Declaring that Mrs. R. B. Quay, who I Wt for WashinKtou last nlht for the : purOHf) of Joining in the picketing of j t hft While House by rnr-mberH of th- j Woman's parly, became a memht-r of t It e H'onuin1!! DMiicra tic rlub uniT fiUne ; olors, the executive rommltteo of the club has voted to rf uitI dues fib'; lias j pa id. In a statmnt Mm. Auila h- j 'U-r, pre i ri n r of t hp Wom:in'n rmo- i-ratlc Huh, ami Mr. 1-Irn M' H. It i-h;t rdt. ! president of the ('tab Si -'it .S'lflY.i; ' council, ji.ssf-i t that Mrs. 'juay h-'us f-poken ) diHrei-pect fully ot f'rhtd'-nt Wilson Hlnce , the (l"i Urtion r.f war mid flint ehe vot- ' ffl for f luy hes in the piv:d'-nti;tl dec- I i.ion. j This state mnt in: i Mrs. R. R. Quay, of 211 East fifth South Mret, who clalmM to be a fmocrat and a member of the Woman Wo-man h Iwsmnrrat. ly rlub, declared to the press this inorntnr fh'it Hit was about to leave for WahiNKi-oii, ! . C, to art ana plckrt for the Huf-frage Huf-frage amendment, it in true, i lint : Mrs. Quay joined tho Woman'B l)i;rn- , ocratlc club Kebriin ry I t, J U 7, and paid dueM. She h t tiirh'd ntune of the meetings of the rtub, nlso the rnt-insrH rnt-insrH of tho Rpri frof-. unit, rtnd h-lied with the new In. In the light of re-r-i-nt eventH, who became a number of t he club under falHe colors. She had been a member of the Woman's Republican club and acted as Ite-pu Ite-pu hi loan judge of election In di strict WA, formerly district No. 10. She has attended Republican primaries In this same district and baa been a candidate candi-date for election nu a delegate. She was elected a delegate In 1916 from district 1 13, and served as such a delegate in the Republican convention. conven-tion. She has Plated to -a Republican Republi-can woman thai Hhe did not vote for Wilson, but for Hughes. This summer sum-mer during the progress of the draft she has spoken disrespectfully of the president because of the declaration of wnr. If, haa been learned that Mrs. K. K. Jenkins, chairman of the local Woman's party; but not a member of the Woman's Republican club, is to pay the expenses of Mrs. Quay to Wfi.m ins ton for the purpose stated. .l rs. Quay was one of a committee of the local Woman's party to see Senator King at tho Hotel Utah October Oc-tober 20, 1117, in reference to his attitude at-titude on the federal suffrage amendment. amend-ment. If the truth had been known at the time this woman applied for mem-'bershlp mem-'bershlp she would not have been admitted ad-mitted to the club: At the call of the president. Mrs. Aqulla Nebeker, a majority of the executive committee commit-tee today voted to refund the money paid by Mrs. Quay for dues. To emphasize the attitude of the club in regard to the tactics of the Woman's party, the following resolution reso-lution was introduced at a meeting of the "Woman's Democratic club of Utah, held In the clu brooms. September Sep-tember 12, 1017, and was unimous-ly unimous-ly adopted : "Whereas, the loyalty of the membership mem-bership of the Woman's Democratic club has been called into question In regard to its attitude on suffrage, be it resolved, "That we reaffirm our loyalty to Pi-fHident "Wilson and Indorse his po-Fit po-Fit in ii in regard to the federal suf-fra suf-fra 4. amf-ndnieiit, and denounce the tn c! ics of the so-called Woman's party at Washington, D. C. The Wo-,ma Wo-,ma n's Democratic, club has no con-neetlon con-neetlon or sympathy with the so-called so-called 'Woman's party. The club Is an affiliated member of the National Nation-al American Woman's Suffrage association. as-sociation. We indorse the present leadership and policies of that association, asso-ciation, which, headed by that loyal, brain v American woman, Mrs. Car-. Car-. He Chapman Catt, is still using every ev-ery legitimate means to secure the amendment and is consistently opposed op-posed to and has publicly denounced -the tactics of this militant group of women in its efforts to gain the amendment." With the refunding of the dues paid by Mrs. Quay, the incident is closed so far as the Woman's Democratic Demo-cratic club Is concerned. (Signed) MRS. AQTTITA NEBEKER, President Woman's Democratic Club. ICM1L.Y S. RICHARDS, President Utah State Suffrage Council. |