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Show SEPARATE PARTY FOR THE 1H ! BEING PLANNED j - Mr. Belmont Outline Ne-I! Ne-I! . ceisity for Fair Sex to ',1 Have Organization of lU Own to Gain Succe " WASHINGTON', Oct. 21 I Copyright, v 1:2 bv the 1. P.) A campaign to bring nil wornm voter of the country together in their own party will get under way shortly after the congres-. congres-. atonal elections next month. 1 Sirs. O. H. P. Belmont, president or the National Woman'! party, la hr conferring with associates In that party on plana for the effort to have , women forsake the mm'i partlea and ' belong: to a party run for ana by women. pine expecta the result of the congressional con-gressional campaign In which fifteen women are seeking office to demon-atrat demon-atrat to the women votera Just how 1 far they are aubordlnated In the men's partlea. When they realiie their rela-I rela-I uva unimportance from the man poll-Helens' poll-Helens' point of view, women will qulcktv movt to the next phaae of their political development. Mra Belmont ; believes, and will unite so as to Im-jreas Im-jreas "woman's pulllltar point "BtTletr j on the men. ' Bitting In the Mar bare drawing room ! of the old tnanalon, which ahe gave ; ihe Wonian'a party recently for na-! na-! tlonal headquartera, Mra. Belmont ex-! ex-! plained why the "eeparatlst" movement by women la neteesary. , "It la not an act of hostility toward i the men." ahe Bald. "That ahould be I understood flrat. We do not wish to ! antagonise the men. We want to help .' them and to help ouraelvea. "Women are aubor'd.nated In poll Ilea. , They always will be until they Impress their own point of view on the men. ; The men want our votea. but our point of view means little or nothing to I them. They have misgoverned. They ' have neglected women and children In : the making of laws. As Inns; aa the ( voting women of Amerlcn are content to remain In their huabands' and brothers' political groupa, this condition condi-tion will continue. That is why we will urge the women to affiliate with us." Mra. Belmont predicted thaj the ef-' ef-' forla of the fifteen women seeking septs In congres aa memiwrs of men's partlea will ahow how the women vot-; vot-; era are scattering and wasting their 1 political power. On November 11, four day after the j congressional election, the National i Woman's party will begin Its drive to i unite the women. The first step will 1 be a convention here, at which the I party's guiding principles, embodied in ; a constitution now being perfected, will t be marie public. I |