The Story of the Woman's PartyGillmore, Inez Haynes
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The Story of the Woman's Party
Gillmore, Inez Haynes
National Woman's Party; Paul, Alice, 1885-1977; Women -- Suffrage -- United States
On Tuesday evening, September 28, I spoke in the Public Library,
explaining our mission in Oregon. Mr. Arthur L. Moulton, Progressive
Candidate for Congress from the Third District presided, and made a
very clever introductory speech. Many questions were asked by
Democratic women which brought out a spirited defense on the part of
several of those present. One Democratic woman maintained that it
would be a most ungrateful position on the part of the Oregon women
to vote against Chamberlain, who had always been a friend of
Suffrage, whereupon a distinguished-looking woman arose and said:
“Oh, no. It would merely be a case of not loving Chamberlain less,
but of loving Suffrage more.”
I spoke before the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union last night, and expect
to address every union before the campaign is over. There are only
two women’s unions here; the garment workers and the waitresses. We
intend to make a canvass of the stores and meet the clerks
personally and to get into all the factories, as far as possible,
where women are employed, and urge these western women voters to
stand by the working women of the East. Tonight we have our first
open-air meeting.
In the _Suffragist_ of October 31, Gertrude Hunter writes of the
campaign in Wyoming:
The meeting last Saturday night was most encouraging. It was a
stormy night, and we went in an auto twenty miles from here, through
snow banks, and every other difficulty to a rally at a branch home.
This was at Grand Canon, and a strongly Democratic precinct. Every
one was wildly enthusiastic over the meeting, even the Democratic
women telling me how much they appreciated our position. We had a
dance immediately after, and I danced with the voters (male) until
one-thirty in the morning, when we were all taken to the railroad
station in a lumber wagon and four-horse team, a distance of a mile
and a half, and came in on a train at two-thirty A.M. I sold twenty
_Suffragists_ and could have disposed of more if I had had them with
me.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights we have big meetings
scheduled.
We are now at Egbert on our regular schedule, and in such a
snowstorm as I never saw before. However, we have had a good morning
in spite of it.
This town is like the others, consisting of a station, a store, and
post-office. Not a residence in the place. The people all drove from
miles around in a high wind and most unfavorable weather to attend
the meeting.
We had the thirty-five mile drive to make to a neighboring town for
another meeting and we did it every mile through a high wind and
torrents of rain, that flooded the trail with water, as we went over
prairie and plowed fields. We did it, however, with only one
blow-out, and two very narrow escapes from being completely turned
over, getting in at two this morning.
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