Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-30 | Page 16 | Suffragist Leaves for Washington

t I MRS. R. B. QUAY, member mem-ber of Salt Lake Wo-i; Wo-i; man's Democratic club, who i: leaves for Washington today. j 5 J ' -c I II I I I f ' ! SUFFRAGIST LEAVES FOI iSBTOI Mrs. R. B. Quay Will Picket for Susan B. Anthony An-thony Amendment. Mi-a. R. B. Quay of ' 114 Hast Fifth South street. member of the Salt Lake Woman's Democratic ehib, will leave today for AVashingrtun, D. C, to picket November 10 for the Susan B. Anthony An-thony amendment. Mrs. Quay has been an ardent -worker in the cause of suffrage and has taken an active part in the politics of Salt la.ke City. She has served at various times as judge of elections and lias been a delegate to several political conventions. conven-tions. She v.-as at one time a member of the county executive committee. Mrs. Quav is perhaps best known for tbe work she did In .Masna and Garfield at Ihe Utah Cntper mills last year to secure the re-election ot rresident II-son.' II-son.' At those places she made a house-to-house canvass, urginsf women to vote for the president. ... , Mrs. Quav has two sous in the dratt army both of whom have bought five Liberty bonds. She said that she did not expect to break any -of the. laws of the District of Columbia, but that she did expect to hold high the. question as to how long women must wait for poltical liberty and to take it to the very gates of the White House. She declared It was legal to petition for redress of grievance In a unlet, dignified manner and that she was willini; to accept any fate at the hands of the police who. she says, have been arresting women on the charge ol blocking Iraffc." She expressed the opinion that, the demand of the women for enfranchisement can never be quieted bv such methods.