Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 276, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1919 Page: 2 of 10
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SUFFRAGE OFFICES
ARE UP TO TIES
IN CAMPAIGN GAME
Judge of Court of Civil Appeals
Shows Politicians Organisa-
tion Built up by Women.
BREAK ALL TRADITIONS
»S|><Tial to Thf llt'ralili
AUSTIN Texas. May 23.—“If you wish
to see the real thing in organization ami
campaign administration come with me to
623-1* Littlefield building and let me intro-1
duce you to State Kqual Suffrage Head-
quarters” Judge W. N. Key remarked to;
a group of prominent politicians and news-
paper men who were gathered in the l*ris-j
kill Hotel lobby today discussing cam-i
paigns past and present.
“The organization was built up and is
run wholly by women.” the judge continued
as the party entered the Littlefield build-
ing “and they have broken all the tradi-
tions by being quiet as mice though wise
as serpent*. They modestly claim that they
could never have put it over without the
active support advice and cooperation of
hundreds of men but lie that as it may I
don’t believe 1 was ever more astounded
than when this morning in reply to some
question of mine Mrs. Cunningham smil- \
ingly stated that she was now willing to
give out information show files maps
card catalogs mailing lists etc. and suited
the action to the word.”
“Ihoir oganization .vns in pretty good
working order as far back as 11H7 she tells
me but the day the legislature voted the
amendment the women began putting their
fences in order because they realized the
enormous handicaps of a state referendum 1
anywhere and any time but that it would
be an almost Herculean task to manage
one successfully in less than three months
time in a state consisting of 253 counties
and wherein the half naturalized aliens
vote on state constitutional amendments
while soldiers and women can not.”
Following are some of the reasons in
biief why each man in the group left the
state suffrage headquarters convinced that
the women of Texas have built up an organ-
ization comparable in every particular to
the best accomplishments in the field ami
that the suffrage amendment is as certain
to carry as May 24 is to arrive.
“in the first place” as Harry Warner of
the Houston Post expressed it “Mrs. Cun-
ningham's grasp of the state situation both
geographically and politically her know-
ledge of chairmen of the itinerary of each
speaker and organizer of how one worker
can be switched here and another there to
suit the respective localities and demands
reminds? me of an expert operator at an
up-to-date switchboard.”
She has the state organized with the
county as the unit (except in counties con-
taining large cities) and the counties ure
grouped into districts following the lines
ef the thirty-one senatorial districts in the
state. There is a chairman for each of these
districts active in the prosecution of the
work. Of the 253 counties in Texas
(which includes the new one called Huds-
peth not yet organized for government
and four in which there is no postoffice)
the suffragists have active county chairmen
in 243. Two of the unorganized counties
their records show have never been organ-
ized for any purpose exclusive of govern-
ment—not even for Liberty Loans.
In addition they have all of the large ci-
ties organized down to the city block and
in every city hamlet and country pre-
cinct in the state women have conducted a
house to house canvass in behalf of the
cause.
District city and county chairmen total
400 earnest active women with whom the
president states headquarters keep in close
touch through weekly letters press bulle-
tins and oft'-n telephone and telegraphic
communication.
‘These four hundred chairmen.” she stat-
ed “have furnished the medium through
which three million fliers and two hundred
thousand ‘Texas Democrats’ have reached
the Texas voters.”
Mrs. Cunningham says that too much
cannot be said in regard to what she terms
“the magnificent support given by the
press of the state.” She continued “What
is known as the rural press has been for
us almost as a unit only about six papers
of this character b* ing actively opposed to
giving women the vote. More than ninety
: nail papers have issued a four-page equal
suffrage supplement. Countless editorials
and many columns of news matter concern-
ing the progress of the campaign have been
given space; in fact the past week we have
found it in.possible to read half our clip-
pings ii leed without the help of the
pre: . even our most optimistic workers
would be doubtful so great lias been the
ta. k < f covering our state with the facts
about the suffrage amendment.”
A huge card catalog in one of the of-
fice-. contains names addresses and inform-
ation ocncerning speakers who have held
themselves in readiness to make speeches in
behalf of equal suffrage.
Their list of speakers numbers 1495 in-
dividual. and there has hardly been a meet-
ing’er' convention occurring since the cam-
paign' was started which has not been ad-
dressed by speakers in behalf of equal suf-
frage.
In addition letters on file show that a
plea for equal suffrage was included in
nearly every Mother’s Day sermon preach-
ed in the state and that there have been
street meetings and suffrage rallies in
nearly every*town village and cross road in
Texas all planned for May 17th hut num-
bers postponed on account of the rains that
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VOTE FOR THE AMENDMENTS V
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Tomorrow will l*e holt! one of the most momentous elections evtir held ih the
state of Texas. Every one of the four amendments to the state constitution which
will he voted upon i.; in the interest of the welfare and advancement of the state. If
adopted this act will lino Texas up with the most advanced movement a most of
the leading states of the Union.
The prohibition amendment needs no explanation indeed hnroly needs an argu-
ment in its favor. For by far the majority of the people of Texins are uncompromis-
ingly in favor of prohibition. A very large part of the state is already dry and the
fine results already plainly apparent in every community Ohere prohibition has been
in effect for a year or more speak for themselves. The old time saloon is not missed
except by a few who have been unable to overcome that tearing thirst that had gotten
so strong a hold upon their vitals. The places once occupied by saloons are occu-
pied by ether commercial business institutions and prosperity has marked the pass-
ing of the liquor traffic everywhere. So may it ever be. So will grand old lexas
vote tomorrow we feel sure. Even the most ardent anti s acknowledge that prohibi-
tion has come to stay and like good democrats the most of them have cheerfully
bowed to the will of the majority of their fellow citizens.
The suffrage amendment giving equal rights to men ami women and requiring
full citizenship before anyone can vote in the state will mark the greatest step for-
ward made by Texas in many a year. The fact that over twenty states of the Union
already have adopted equal votes for women is sufficient to convince thinking voters
that justice and right are on the side of the amendment. A realization of the fact that
women after all are just as much “people” as men has come home to the men of the
country and they realize that the words of one of our greatest statesmen that this
American government should be *'a government of the people for the people by the
people” apply just as much to women as to men. lexas men are no longer willing
to class the women of the state with children and idiots lexas inen have faith in
.Texas womanhood and they will no longer withhold from women the equal rights
which should be the heritage of every American citizen. The Herald believes that the
suffrage amendment will be adopted tomorrow.
The amendment to increase the salary of the governor should have the support
of every liberal progressive citizen. Texas ranks fifth amongst the suites in wealth.
She should recompense her chief executive appropriately. And she will do so after
tomorrow.
Nothing could appeal more strongly to the hearts of Texans than the fourth
amendment. To authorize the state to lend its credit to any citizen who wishes to ac-
quire a home. Every man wants a home. Too many are doomed to the unsatisfactory
and expensive system of renting. A nation of home owners makes a nation of pat-
riots. Men will fight for their home with more ardor and greater zeal than they ever
would fight fora mere place of abode owned by the average landlord. Home owners
are builders. They are improvers. People never improve or care for rented property
as they would for their own home. The fourth amendment will help Texans to own
homes. Could any Texan vote against that? We believe that the landlord system
will no longer have a hold on Texas after tomorrow for we feel sure that every voter
is going to vote for the fourth amendment.
Vote for every one of them fellow’ Texans. Don’t fail to scratch out the para-
graph beginning “Against.”
Look up that poll tax receipt anti carry it along w’ilh you but if you cannot find
it go anyway for any citizen may make oath that he has paid his poll tax if he has lost
his receipt anti have the right to vote anyway.
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DISCUSSION PEACE
TERMS IN ENGLAND
GROWS LN TENSION
Political Observers .Watching the
Barometer and Wonder if Pre-
mier Will be Home in Time.
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WALSH’S J0NKE1 IS OVER
(By K. Walter.)
LONDON May 23. Discussion of the
peace terms continues in an atmosphere of
growing tension with which however the i
terms themselves have little to do. The
familiar storm clouds of Ireland and labor j
unrest are again on the horizon. Political
observers are watching the barometer and
making anxious calculations on whether
Lloyd George will get homo in time to put
up the national umbrella. The worst thing
the Germans can do to England now is to;
hold him in Paris by delays and they will j
certainly do it as long as allied toleration !
will permit. Ameren is largely responsible
for raising the Irish cloud Winston Church-
ill fur that of labor. The semi-official ap-:
pcarance of Frank Walsh’s junketing in
Ireland has served a useful purpose in en-:
aiding Wilson and Lloyd George to show
their aprovul before the event and their!
disapproval after it. In this way the Irish
question has semi-officially reached the'
peace conference and the Sinn Fein case !
has been dismissed by it. Wilson has made |
his position clear to Irish-Americans and |
by taking up the matter with Lloyd George
has carried out as tar a* he was aide the t
demand for intervention and in the eyes j
of the English majority it was going a good
long way to persuade Lloyd George to give /
any recognition to the delegation.
Lloyd George on his j*art gains more'
than he loses by his association with the
American president in this incident. It
will Rive added weight to whatever Irish
policy he adopts on his return from Par-
is. But the effect of the stars and stripes
being entwined with the Sinn Fein color?
in Ireland has so much intensified partisan
spirit and particularly the spirit of dis-
content that a new policy for Ireland in
place of militarism has become an urgent
necessity which alone would call Lloyd
George from Paris at the earliest possible
moment.
He is just as much needed to take in
hand the trouble which has now come to a
head between W inston Churchill and lab-
or. At the time of Churchill’s anpointment
as war secretary 1 pointed out that he
was the pet aversion of organized labor.
That was one of the reasons for taking him
away from the munition ministry. Un-
fortunately the revelation of his instruc-
tions to army officers regarding the possi-
bilities of using soldiers as strike breakers
ha3 now inflamed industrial opinion not
only against him but against thj war of-
fice. It is doubtful whether any serious
action will be taken by the industrial un-
ions on this matter alone but it has very
materially added to the incentives for n
national demonstration of the industrial
power of labor as opposed to the political
power of the present government. The
British hatred is strong enough to make an
effective stand against its introduction in
England and this sign of a tendency to in-
troduce it into industrial disputes is de-
plored bjr many who do not subscribe to
labor. Llvod George's task perhaps more
immediate than that in Ireland will he to
satisfy labor that the government army pol-
icy has been misrepresented by his im-
petuous subordinate that the industrial
policy so hopefully inaugurated with the
National Council and the Coal Commis-
sion is to be carried through that England
is not pledged to the suppression of any
particular form of government in foreign
countries and that within a reasonable time
conscription will be abolished otherwise the
storm clouds may bring us something more
than refreshing summer rain.
COMMERCE DEPARTMEN OF
MEXICO OFFICE IN CHICAGO
Il’j T lie Associated I’ismwI
CHICAGO III. May 23.—A branch of-
fice has been opeenti here by the Mexican
department of commerce as the result of
the recent Mississippi trade visit.
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10 BODIES RESCUED
FROM RUINS SEVEN
ARE STILL MISSING
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f'EDAK RAPIDS Iowa May 23.—Ten
bodies have been taken from Uia ruins of
the Douglass Company starch piuat here
ami seven persons are still missing their
bodies probably being in the ruins of the
plant wrecked by explosion last night.
i Of the lbO men and boys who had just
gone to work on the night shift few es-
caped without injury.
The entire plant was burned by the re-
sultant fire which was confined to the
Douglas plant. The loss ise $3000000.
So severe was the explosion that persons
were thrown from chairs a mile away. The
. cause of the accident could not be deter-
mined. but it is thought to have been due
to either a defective boiler or spontaneous
combustion.
Many of the hundreds of employes were
in or near the factory buildings when the
: blast covered the ground for blocks around
with wreckage. Some were buried in the
shattered buildings while others were hit
by fying debris.
With tne lire raging cries were heard
coming from the drying room of the plant
but firemen were unable to cut their way
| in.
Men covered with starch were taken
from the ruins by their comrades and many
thrilling rescues were made- Some of the
victims were stark mad and did not know
what had happened.
Water mains w ere cut by the farce of the
explosion making the work of the firemen
harder because of the lack of water.
Every window in the central part of the
city was broken. Chimneys caved in on
families at the supper tables and guests in
the dining rooms of hotels were thrown
from their chairs.
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ARMY HORSES ARE ALL SdLD
LONDON. May 23.—It is announced that
the scries of sales of war hoefees for the
British army have come to «n eng.
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have been so prevalent.
The intense enthusiasm almost feverish
j haste but perfect mechanism with which
the large headquarters staff are continuing
the campaign right up to the last minute
| is nothing short of an inspiration to Texas
1 men to g»‘t out and help the -put it over
! declared one of the politicians after leav-
leaving.
Following is Mrs- Cunningham's last ap-
peal in behalf of Texas women to the men
of the state:
Men of Texas:
“The women of T*'xas need your help
on May 24th.
“In the winning or losing of the second
amendment on your ballot the state choos-
i es between her women anti the alien ene-
mies within our gat<‘s as citizens. That
amendment makes the qualifications for
j voting in Texas for both men anti women
full American citizenship by either birth or
naturalization.
I “Always we have lived beside you work-
ed with you rejoiced suffered served anti
sorrowed beside you. During the civil war
our mothers did not fail our fathers. Dur-
! ing this war w-e have tried to be worthy to
be called their daughters.
“The door to citizenship is and always
has b‘*en oj>en to the alien by the simple
{process of naturalization. The door to cit-
izenship to loyal American women who by
their service helped you win this war is
closed unless your chivalry opens it for us
with your vote on .May 24th.“
WOULD HAVE SENATE GIVE
COVENANT INTERPRETATION
1 * (By The Aui’i'latnl l’r**ul
; PARIS May 23.—The American dele-
gates to the peace conference favor a plan
by which the senate would adopt a resolu-
tion giving its interpretation of the articles
in the League of Nations covenant thus
recording the interpretation of which the
I senate would ratify the document and still
leave it effective as an international doc-
ument-
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HAS OUTLAWED UNIVERSITY CATA-
LOGUE
I By Tin* Associated Press.)
AUSTIN Texas May -3— An outlawed
catalogue of the University of Texas is the
i properly of a member of the faculty of the
university. The catalogue was printed in
1HM4 and through some one’s error it was
published without its proof sheets being
properly corrected. It was so full of errors
that an effort was made to destroy all the
copies but a few remained and are now be-
ing retained as curiosities. In the list of
students named ars Albert Burleson post-
master general T. \V. Gregory former at-
torney general of the United States and
Frank Feuille. attorney general of Panama.
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G. A. R. OBJECTS TO HAVING
TAFT WORLD LEAGUE TALK
—
(Bv The AssK-iat-d Pr'-ssi
WICHITA K«n. May 23.—The G. A. It.
unanimously adopted a resolution protest-
ing against former president Taft making
an address on the League of Nations at
Kansas City on ?«temorial Day.
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