Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-10-30 | Page 6 | Miss Anne Martin, Famous as Suffragette, to Address the Women of Ogden on Nov. 10

MISS ANNE MARTIN, FAMOUS AS SUFFRAGETTE, TO ADDRESS THE WOMEN OF OGDEN ON NOV. 10 Miss Anne Martin who will speak In the Maids' and Matrons hall nl 3 p. m., November 10, Is one of the keenest women politicians in the country. She keeps in constant touch with the congressional con-gressional situation; she follows each congressman's change of opinion on the suffrage question; she sees to it that the record of 531 members of congress arc kept so up to date, that anyone can consult these records and find how their congressman is standing stand-ing on the question. Miss Martin Ib coming to Ogdon as a woman voter from Nevada, whore she is affectionately known a "Little "Lit-tle Governor Anno." She was at one time professor of history at the University Uni-versity of Novada, and' holds degrees from the University of Nevada, and Leland Stanford university. She also studied political economy at Oxford, England. Whilo In England she be- came Interested in the suffrage movement, move-ment, and upon her return home she resolved to give up her splendid career ca-reer as a student, and devote herself to the fight for political liberty for all American women. She had charge of the Nevada campaign In 191-1, and campaigned in tho mountain and mining min-ing districts on horseback, In order to reacli voters who could not be reached by automobile or train. After the suffrage suf-frage victory In hor own stale, Miss Martin wont to Washington, D. C , to work for tho federal suffrage amendment, amend-ment, becauso she believes that the principle of political liberty is too big to be confined in state borders. Miss M. G. Boss, who is here in advance of Miss Martin, says: "AVhon Miss Martin speaks, she j talks facts, which aro more Impressive than hours of pleading and sontlmen-talitios."