The herald., 1896-12-10
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS
In Convention at Temperance Temple
Yesterday
Their Ultimate Aim Is to Federate the
Counties of Southern
California.

In response to call issued by COM
mttee of ladies interested in the move
ment to secure the ballot for women,
about seventy-five ladies, representing
precincts in the city and county, assem-
bled in the auditorium of Temperance
temple yesterday morning.
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs Meserve, with Mrs. Lulu P. Little
acting secretary.
On motion Mrs. DIG Stephens and Mrs.
r. L. Craig were elected temporary chair
man and secretary.
In compliance with a request from the
former woman suffrage campaign COM
mittee, the chairman presented a con-
stitution, drafted by herself, as work.
ing basis for the new organization,
which was read by the secretary, sec
tion by section, and afterward adopted
as whole, with some minor correc-
tiOns. The constitution in it's essential
points sets forth that the name of the
organization shall be the Los Angeles
County Woman Suffrage league, and its
object the cultivation of a sentiment
in favor of woman suffrage and the
adoption of an amendement to the con-
stitutiOn of California according to WO-
men the right to vote at all elections.
Any woman OF man may become a
member by signing the constitution and
the payment of fifty cents per annum.
The officers shall be a president, thirty
four vice presidents, one vice president
at large and one chosen from each town
ship.
The league shall have anannual meet
ing in Los Angeles on the third Tuesday
in September. The standing committees
shall be seven, consisting of the follow
ture. finance, literature and advisory
Each precinct in the county shall or
ganiZe with a chairman and secretary
Mrs. H. K. Fay and Mrs. A. M. McComas
were appointed committee on resolu-
tions and presented a resolution which,
in effect, said that the women of Cali
fornia would in the next campaign carry
forward their own work under their
own management, inviting eastern lee
turers when deemed evpedient.
Mrs Stephens was unanimously elect
ed to go to Sacramento during the meet
ing of the Legislature this month to rep
resent the league in an effort for the
submission Of another amendment to
the constitution.
The spirit of the convention was har-
moniOus and enthusiastic. The consen-
sus of opinion among the ladies seemed
to be that they had just learned how
to work, and would go forward with
ence gained in the late campaign, which
was really not defeat. but postpone
ment. The aim of the county league is
to federate eventually all of the coun-
ties south of the Tehachepi mountains,
and honey-comb the territory with pre-
cinct suffrage clubs. 1t was reported by
the delegates that suffrage clubs, nota-
bly, In the Thirty-second precinct, Boyle
Heights and Long Beach. had trans
formed their former suffrage societies
into civic clubs for the study of the
laws of California and of the United
States.
For this work Brice's American Com
monwealth was said to be the best di-
gest published. A book dealer in Los
Angeles says that since the sl.Sraes ag-
.tation began more copies of this work
have been sold than ever before in any
given number OF years.
Permanent officers were elected as
follows: President, Mrs. Elmira II. Ste
phens: vice president, Mrs George Rice:
secretary. Mrs. r. l.. Craig; treasurer.
Mrs. Lydia Reese; chairman of adyis,
ory board, Mrs. Almeda Gray.