New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-06
WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONFERENCE.
AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE HISTORY
OF THE MOVEMENT IN
NEW-JERSEY.
ALL ARE INVITED WHO WANT TO HEAR THE
SUFFRAGE CAUSE" BROADLY AND


SUFFRAGE CAUSE" BROADLY AND
ADEQUATELY PRESENTED.
National woman suffrage conference will be
held at Union Hall. Orange. y. j.. to-day and TO-
morrow. The afternoon sessions on each day VIII
begin al 23O o'clock. and the evening sessions at
O'Clock.
II is expected that this will be important
event IN the history OF the suffrage movement In
New-Jersey. and the National, State and local ele-
ments will be fully represented
The presiding officer will be Miss Mary G. Hay
who will also take part In the discussion on the
second day Miss Hay is attractive speaker
and a chairman OF practsed ability having been
connected nearly all her lifc with public work OF
various kinds
Tho Rev. Antone,te Brown Blackwell. represent
Ing the noble pioneers OF the cause. VIII open the
first session with prayer and the same afternoon
she Will speak upon "Woman's Place In Civiliza-
ton"
The prominent National speakers will be Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait and the Rev. Anna II. Shaw.
Mrs Gait is widely known as one Of the most con
vincing speakers In the country, and IS woman OF
charming personality. She Is native ~ WILSON,
sin. and has always been an ardent believer ana
active worker In the cause OF woman suffrage Her
subjects will be follows First evening. The
True Democracy. second day, Afternoon How
May We Win the Suffrage"
The Rev Anna H. Shaw VIII appear on the sec
ond day taking charge of the question box In the
afternoon and in the evening delivering an ad-
dress Her earnestness and eloIucnce arc too well
known in our State to need further comment.
Another notable feature Of the first afternoon VIII
be an address by Homer b. Sprague. Pm. D., on
"surraro and Education" Professor Sprague's
eminent character and fame as author and Lecture
add much weight 10 his dislnterested adVocac! Oh
wOmans progress. .,..
on the same occasion there will be symposium
IN which the following questions Will be cohsGrreq
Does the wife Need Suffrage?' by Mrs w j.
Pullcn president ot the Camden League Does me
business Woman Need IT." by Miss Jennie Morris,
Of Moorestown. y. J.. Does the Prot"ssonai
Woman Need IT, by Or. c. V. Luther; Does the
Tax-Paylng Woman need II? by Mrs Isabella H.
Dcmarest OF ClOster. y. j.. corresponding HtVt'-
on the first evening n "suffrage farce. entitled
THE Judgment OF Minerva. VIII De read by Us
author Mrs Florence Howe Han. president OF 'he
%cv-Jcrsey Stat. Association. and vice presl,'ft
Of the General Federation Of Women's CUBS. MIS-.
Hall tho daughter % Julia Ward Howe. has for
wears been one Of the ahlost and most active work
ers both for suffrage and FOR the club movement
Her farce intended to show the absurd ana liIpg-
teal attitude OF the anti-suffragsts. and has been
presented 10 many audiences. always arousing
much laughter and enthusiasm. 49, -
Mrs Mariana ". Chapman president OF the New
York State Association Will speak on women IN
lsS and 1886" and Mrs J. y. De Witt. president or
The Essex County Association. Will give "A Word
to Essex County" Miss Marion Couthouy smith
OF East orange representing the local clement WI!
present the question rs Woman Suffrage Right
At the beginning OF each session attraciv" music
Will be rendered There will be singing BY MIS-.
Jean Slice Starr and Victor ID. BALDWIN, ana violin
solos by Albert Gosswciler.
Ten cents admission Will he charged at the even
Ing sessions. and AT the afternoon sessions coec-
lions VIII b" taken.