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
Tomorrow night I shall go to Campstool, where there is a big supper
and dance.
I had another very interesting meeting this week at a town fifty
miles from here. The “town” consists of a station, the post-office,
general store, and a little restaurant; no houses, and only one or
two families living there. The meeting was in the schoolhouse and
the voters came from miles and miles to attend, at least one hundred
and fifty of them, on horseback, in wagons, buggies, and autos.
Every one was much interested. The minister, at whose house I was
entertained for the afternoon, lived two and one-half miles out in
the country, said afterward that the meeting was a thrill to most of
them, who had never heard a Suffrage speech in their lives.
These are the solid voters of the community. Many are from the
eastern States who are homesteading here. I distributed the
literature to every one.
I will probably reach the same number of voters every day this week,
or perhaps a few more, as the next town we are going into, Burns, is
a trifle larger than Hillsdale.
Miss Brandeis is going from house to house in Cheyenne, distributing
our literature and soliciting memberships.
* * * * *
The campaign over, four of these victorious campaigners were welcomed
home on the afternoon of November 15, by an enormous audience at the
Columbia Theatre in Washington:
Mrs. Latimer said:
The very first thing they said to us in Kansas was, “Well, you are a
long way from home!” and we thought so too.
Kansas, as you know, is a very large State and is an agricultural
State, and the consequence was that we had to get in touch with all
the farmers and so it was necessary for us to do a great deal of
traveling.
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