The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-02-17
IN A BIG GROUP.
The Woman Suffragist COnven-
ton at Washington
Looks Pretty and Has Its Pic
tUre Taken.
NEXT YEARS MEET
Viii Be Held at Atlanta,
Georgia.
The Press Committees Report is
Submitted.

WAsHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE ladies at
tending the woman suffrage convention
had their photographs taken in a group
this morning.
There was a large amount of business
on the programme for transaction today
and the convention Immediately pre-
eeeded to business after the picture
taking. The subject of assistance to the
work Of the association on the part Of tile
newspapers of the country came up incl
dentally as a question of discussion and I'm
this connection, letters We're read from
u. r. Anthony newspaper man ia KAN
sas, Offering TO publish items of interest
to the cause, and letter from Governor
Waite of Colorado on the subject Of
woman suffrage in that state.
There was a feeling among some Of
the delegates to the convention that the
next meeting should be held in some
other city than Washington. So many
conventions were held here that it was
believed that more good might
be accomplished in some other city
in which the woman suffrage question
is paramount, as the moral effect might
be beneficial Invitations were extended
to the convention to meet in W Washington,
Cincinnati, Atlanta and Detroit
Fifteen minutes were allowed to the
adherents Of each city TO present its
views. Washington found q friend In
Mrs Lille Devereaux Blake, who held
that the capital was the proper place to
hold the convention because the law
making power was here
Miss Anthony seconded Mrs. Blake,
and said that more had been accom- plish-
ed by holding the convention here dur
ing the past 70 years than would have
been accomplished had they been held
elsewhere.
Atlanta Ga, was chosen al the place
for holding the next annual woman suf-
frage convention
Press Committees Report
The report of the press committee was
read by Mrs. Ellen Bateue Deitrick of
Boston, Mass. Ut contained a review Of
the press work done in each state aux
iiary to the general association, but
dealt particularly with that done in Kan
sas and Colorado, where the organization
for that kind Of work IS more thorough
than in any other state
The report said that after the press
headquarters in Denver, Colo, were
opened, the committee exchanges were
brought in each day and carefully
studied. When the editorial com
meuts on the question of woman
suffrage was Indifferent, personal
appeal we're made TO the editors or
literature was sent i'm some cases produc-
ing favorable change in sentiment ia
case of active hostility, leagues. OF friends
were appealed to, to distribute literature
or in other Wavs to cOunferac1 the evil
effects of hostile editorials.
One editor cauvassed his county him
self, speaking for suffrage, ia an the
school houses. While the 5u1fragists did
lose in some towns where the press was
favora bile to them, they did not win ia a
single town or county where IT was OPP
posed to suffrage throughout the entire
campaign
AS to Kansas, the report said that some
idea as to the value of having a central
distributing bureau for suffrage litera-
ture could be gathered from the fact
that there are now 300 newspapers in
that state advocating 3 woman suffrage
to the constitution. Promi-
nent Democratic newspapers have come
out strongly in the advocacy Of woman
suffrage.
Good work, said the report, Is now be-
ing done by the state press superintend-
ents in Rhode Islands Connecticut, Illi-
u9fs and Iowa