The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-28
WOMAN SDFFRAGIS7S.'
Conference to Be Held at Orange
May 6 and - Distinguished
Speakers Of the Party.

A National Woman's Suffrage Confer
ence will be held at Union Hall, Orange,
on Friday and Saturday, May 6 and T..
The afternoon sessions on each day will
begin at 2:3O P. M; the evening sessions
at s O'Clock. 1t is expected that this will
be an 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 of New York, who will also take
part in the discussion on the second day.
Miss Hay is an attractive speaker and a
chairman of practised ability, having
been connected nearly all her life with
public work of various kinds.
The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
whose presence will honor the Confer
ence by representing the noble pioneers
of the cause, will open the first session
with prayer, and the same afternoon she
ilfzation." The prominent National speak
ers will be Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
and the Rev. Anna H.. Shaw. Mrs. Gait
is widely known as n of the most
brilliant and convincing speakers in the
country, and is a woman of charming
personality. She is a native of Wiscon-
lever and active worker in the cause of
woman suffrage. Her subjects will be
as follows:-FIrst evening, The True
Democracy; second day, afternoon, How
Anna H. Shaw will appear on the second
day, taking charge of the question box
in the afternoon, and in the evening de-
livering an address. Her earnestness and
eloquence are too well known in our State
to need further comment.
Another notable feature of the first af-
ternoon will be an address by Homer B.
Sprague, Phi. D., on Suffrage and Edu-
cation - Professor Snra Q1lPfS eminent
character and fame as author and LEG
turer d much weight to his disinter-
ested advocacy of woman's progress. On
the same occasion there will be a sym
postum, in which the following questions
will be considerations the Wife Need
Suffrage?" by Mrs. w j. Pullen, presi-
Business Woman Need IT." by Miss Jen-
ME Norris Of Moorestown, N. j., Does
the Professional Woman Need It?' by
Or. G. Y; Luther; Does the Taxpaying
Demarest of Closter, N. j., corresponding
secretary of the w. C. T. u. All these
women, representing the State, are speak
erS of ability.
co.. entitled THE judgment of Minerva"
will be read by its author, Mrs. Florence
Howe Hall, president of the New Jersey
State Association and vice president of
Clubs. Mrs. Hall, the daughter of Julia
Ward Howe, has for years been one of
the ablest and most active workers, both
for suffrage and for the club movement.
Her farce is intended to show the alb
surd and illogical attitude of the anti
suffragists and has been presented to
many audiences, always arousing much
laughter and enthusiasm.
On the second afternoon, Mrs. Mariana
W. Chapman, president of the New York
State Association. will speak on WON
en- in As and 49," Mrs. J. D. Dewitt,
president of the Essex County Associa-
ton, will give "A Word to Essex Coun-
ty," and Miss Marion Couthouy Smith,
of East Orange, representing the local
element, win present the question. rs
Woman Suffrage Right?" At the begin
ming of each session, attractive music
will be rendered. There will be singing
by Mrs. Jean Starr and Mr.. Victor Bald
win, n violin solos by Mr.. Albert Goss-
weller. At the evening sessions, ten
cents admission will be charged, and at
the afternoon sessions collections will be
taken. 1t is hoped that the Conference
will attract large audiences from the
State in general, and interest all who
wish to hear the suffrage cause broadly
and adequately presented.