The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-09

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the Maine sociation-Delegates APP
pointed-The Petition to the Legislature
The National Convention-Mrs. Dietrich
to Speak Here Soon.
The first meeting of the executive
board of the Maine Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION was held with the correspond
ing secretary yesterday. There was a
large attendance. Mrs. H.J. Bailey, the
president, presided. Delegates to the
National American VS. A. meeting, TO
be held at Atlanta, January 81, to Feb
ruary 5, were appointed as follows: DR..
Abby NJ. Fulton OF Ellsworth, Miss E.
W.Yates of Round Pond, Miss Martha
Fairfield of Saco, Miss L. W. Weston of
Skowhegan, and Miss Matte Baker
Dunn of Wateryille.
Miss Yates was also elected Maine
mem Der of the national executive COM
mittee.
Mrs. q. H. Shaw was elected delegate
to the mid-year meeting of the NewEng-
land Woman Suffrage Association, to
be held at Nashua, N. H., today. Janu1
airy 9th.
The conduct of the hearing before the
judiciary committee was discussed. and
the secretary was instructed to ask that
said hearing be- granted on January 81.
1t was voted to call meeting of the
Maine Woman Suffrage Association at
Augusta on January 81, to consider i'm
portant changes in the constitution.
Miss L. f. Donnell and Mrs. S. Osgood
were appointed press committee. per-
tanning to t he formation and relation OF
auxiliary societies. These petitions now
In circulation read:
The undersigned citizens OF -----
most respectfully and earnestly pray
that the legislature will provide such
enactments as will allow the women IN
Maiue the right to the ballot IN the
municipal elections.
There will be yards of names present.
ed to the legislature at every session
from now on. The following call has
been issued by the National-A merican
Woman Suffrage Convention:
In accordance with resolution passed
at he last meeting OF our association
in Washington. the 9th annual conven-
ii OF the National-AmeTican Woman
Suffrage ASSOCIATION Will be held IN AZ
Iapt;t. Georgia, in DeGives' opera house,
January s. to February 5. The object
OF these conventions is to educate wom-
en- into a knowledge of their rights and
d1ties as citizens of republic, and
through them to arouse the nation to a
sense of the national wrong perpetrated
BY the d;sfran hisement of half the peo-
Al
to the principles of government declared
by our laws and constitution.
While Colorado's full nfranchisement
of women, in 1888, is encouraging, the
defeat of the suffrage amendments in
New York and Kansas, in 1894, shows
how largely men still fail when called
upon to put in practice the principles
they enunciate.
Though rs states have granted some
slight concessions to women citizens, in
no states of the Union, save Wyoming
and Colorado, are women yet admitted
to the dignity of equal rights in citizen
ship. In only six states of the Union
are mothers conceded to be legal own
efs of their own children.
Such being the sad and shameful
state of affairs, it behooyes all lovers Of
Justice to rally at the call TO speed the
next step in human progress-the full
of the mother of the race,
the greatest factor in the coming civil
cation.
Presidents of State1 Suffrage associa-
tions from IS states, together with many
famous lecturers, will take part in the
convention progra MINES. Among those
expected are Rev. Anna Howard Shaw,
OF pennsylvania, Lille Devereaux
Blake Of New York, Carrie Lane Chap
man-Catt of Iowa, Caroline r. Merrick
of Louisiana, Alice Stone Blackwell of
Massachusetts,, Josephine K. Henry of
Kentucky, Dora Phelps Buell. of Colo
RADIO, Elizabeth U. Yates of Maine, and
Mary c. Francis of Ohio.
Susan B. Anthony, President.
Ellen Battelle Dietrich,
Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs. Dietrich is to be heard here Janu-
airy IL. She is brilliant, logical. without
at all suggesting Kate Upton Clarke's
F" shrieking sisterhood."