The San Francisco call., 1896-05-23
COM MENDED 1.-THE CALL" |"
Women's Convention in Session
in Alameda Expressed Its
Gratitude.
Miss Shaw Says That Boomers Are
Prettier Than Mems "Stove.
pipe. Hats.

ALAMEDA, CAL, May 22.-The Woman
Suffrage Convention met again this after.
noon in Armory Hall under the direction
of Miss Mary G. Hay. The attendance
was larger than on the previous day, and
much enthusiasm prevailed. Miss Hay
with her business faculties and happy
manner, turned out more dollars to the
campaign fund than any city in the State
outside of San Francisco.
The campaign is to be carried into every
county seat in the State, and will end in
June. Then in the fall they will get into the
mems political meetings and talk on the
suffrage plank introduced by the male
voters platforms.
Mrs. Green Majors of Alameda delivered
an address on docs the Wife and Woman
Want the BallotP"
DR.. Kellog Lane of Oakland followed
conining her remarks mainly with regard
TO the Biblical standpoint OF women dis.
obeying Paul's dictum to keep silence, and
showing how all through the Old and New
esses even by Paul himself.
The following resolution was carried by
rising vote amid much enthusiasm:
WHEREAS, Though indebted greatly to the
country and the reform press of California fol
their able championship, yet we recognize THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALL as our first great metro
politan help; SO be it
Resolred, That we express our gratitude for
its able editorial and powerful championshin
of amendment No. IL.
Miss Anna Shaw emerged from the
scenes and was accorded a great ovation.
Many questions were handed in, and in a
witty manner she quickly turned the
tables on her questioners and kent her
audience laughing.
Another question was: "What benefits
OF direct Unitarian nature are likely to
accrue to those women in the lower ranks
of life, such as washerwomen, charwomen.
II they are made voters?"
Some OF them might sit on jury and
get rest, and they would make something
more than by washing" replied Miss Sha W
MISS SHAW replied to another question :
women are no more answerable for di-
yorces than they are for the canal in
Mars. Men have made all the laws of
divorce; men have granted all divorces ..
women SIMPLY take, If they can get il, to
get out OF bad marriages. though some of
us have saved ourselves from getting into
that trouble. In the decade 1850 to 1900
there were more marriages and less di-
yorces IN wyoming than in any other
Is 1t not fair to suppose that woman in
this conflict between the inherited desire
OF her nature to possess good man and
the struggle Tor the necessaries of life will
md the latter the stronger, even more so
than at present." was asked.
Cant tell, said Miss Shaw. "Women
have been making bricks without straw.
The ballot IS but an i'm plement. an instrn-
ment to mold and construct government
and is the straw women are wanting in
their bricks" 49,
Miss Shaw declared herself in favor of
bloUmers If women wanted them. because
they were more useful and far more hand
some than stovepipe hot. She also said
that the young men in San Francisco
formed Young Mems Suffrage Associa.
tion last night to forward the m oyement
Armory Hall never contained 40 menv
people as were there this evening tn listen
to Rev. Anna Shaw. She spoke for on
hour and half on the question OF woman
suffrage generally, and answered the many
objections made to giving women the
right to vote. In her opinion the question
of the hour was not the single tax nor the
money question, but the enfranchisement
of one-half of the adult population in the
Union.
Matthew Schneider's Funeral.
ALAMEDA, CAL, May 22.-The funeral
of Matthew Schneider will be held SIM
day from his residence, 2025 Clinton ave
nue., at 2P. M. He was a native of Frank
fort-on- Main, and member of the
A. o. U. w. No. It's, West End, and the
Sons of Hermann, San Francisco.