Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-25

Miss Hay, of Washington, d. e.,
secretary of the organization. commit
tee of the National Woman Suffrage
Association, was in the city yesterday
and met with a committee from the
local organization, relative to con-
ference to be held in this city next
month.
Miss Hay explained the object xld
nature of the conference, to a Register
reporter last evening. This is our
jubilee year." she said. Fifty gears
ago the first national convention of
women was held in Seneca, n. Y. 1t
met in July, 1S4S, and the delegates
discussed the laws governing women.
A demand for waman suffrage was not
dreamed of at that time, but came
later Out of that first convention has
grown the great movement for the
emancipation of woman. AS this is the
jubilee year, the national organization
decided to hold series of conferences,
in nearly all the States in the Union.
They will be in the nature of public
meetings, to be addressed by Rev. An
ma Shaw, vice presidents; Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, chairman of the organ
lzation committee, and myself"
The dates selected for the conference
in Wheeling are April 18th and 10th.
The first conference will be held in
Cincinnati April 18th and 18th, and
Pittsburg April 18th and 14th. After
the Wheeling meetings, the officials
of the national organization will go to
Maryland. Delaware, Pennsylvania,
and all the New England States. The
hall in which the local meetings will
be held will be announced later, and
the full programmes will be published
at the same time On the first night
Friday), Mrs. Gait will speak; and
the Rev Anna Shaw on Saturday
night. Miss Hay will preside over all
the meetings. They will be held in
the afternoons and evenings. The af-
ternoon meetings will be devoted to
the reading and discussion Of pa
pers relating to different phases of the
suffrage movement At the night con-
ferences, silver offerings will be taken
at the door.
The State convention of the West
Virginia Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton will be held here on the morn
ings of April 18th and 10th. The
officers of the organization are as fol-
lows, namely: President, Mrs. George
X. Wheat; corresponding secretary,
Mrs George e. Boyd; recording seere-
tary Mrs Chas. NJ. Richie, Of Fair
mont; treasurer, Mrs. De Moody, Of
Grafton
Miss Hay is very enthusiastic in the
cause to which she is devoting her
time and energies. In answer to the
reporters question concerning the
growth of the general suffrage move
ment. she said:
1T has grown remarkably during the
past few years, and even those who
most bitterly oppose it, say that wo-
man suffrage is certain to come. There
has been a remarkable change in SEN
timent toward the subject which we
advocate during the past two years,
especially in the South and West
When you consider that the men adj
vocated general suffrage for one hun
dred years before they secured their
rights, and that the women have been
asking for the ballot for less than fif-
ty years. you will seee that we have
made very satisfactory progress. Yes,
there is opposition to the movement,
strangely enough. among the women.
But it also true that the movement
for general suffrage made by the men,
found strong opposition from those in
whose hands it was proposed to place
the ballot"
Miss Hay will leave for Pittsburg
this morning.