Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-17

THE annual meeting of the West Vir-
,nja Woman's Suffrage Association
Ills held yesterday morning at the
carroll Club. There was good at
,o7dance and everybody present was
fssnlv interested. The election of Of
4rars for the ensuing year was as fol-
lcas;
President, Mrs. George K Wheat;
,fes president, Mrs. Jennie Raymond,
n Morgantown; corresponding secre-
-arv. Mrs. C, NJ. Rickie, of Fairmont;
rasording secretary, DR.. Harriet B.
I7Bes: treasurer, Miss J. B. Wilson;
auditors. Mrs. r. G. Barr and Mrs. Jen-
ME NJ. Marley, of Fairmont.
nrher matters of business were dis
clssod. and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
addressed the convention for few
minutes and they then adjourned until
tbe afternoon meeting.
AFTERNOON MEETING.
The afternoon conference was opened
m. an address by Mrs. c. M. Richie,
Slate corresponding secretary. Mrs.
pirhie was well received and very ire
onently applauded. She said in part:
THE people who are working for
rhis cause ask for it on the grounds of
Justice. In this age of the world not
even king can make laws to tax and
govern a large and intelligent class
without their having any say so in
The matter The strongest interest in
woman's nature is love for the chill
6ren. which would necessarily induce
her desire to vote for good men and
good laws for their protection.
She said that what man has not
Aaon able to do alone, what woman
could not do alone, men and women
may do together. At least the best re-
Suits will be obtained by their union.
Mrs. Richie talked at length of the
good results of equal suffrage in the
different States. 1t is not alone for
women that equal suffrage is needed
and asked, nor even for the children.
4 is not a ''woman's rights" party-it
s humanitarian party. What benefits
women benefits men; they rise or fall
f3gether. BY the laws of God and ma
ulre, they are one and their interests
are one
The recording secretary, Mrs. Harriet
B. Jones, was next introduced and was
received very enthusiastically. DR..
Jones said;
Suffrage is a right born in every
body without regard to sex" She said
that many a white woman is to-day
teaching the black man how to vote,
and cannot vote herself. Who are cit
izens-men only? Yes, when it comes
to making laws and drawing salaries,
but men and women when the laws are
to be obeyed and taxes paid. All men
are born free and equal, but not the
women.
The best government in the world is
that Of the home, where father and
mother have equal powers.
They declare that taxation without
representation is tyranny, but taxation
Of women without representation is a
blessing She said the girls are not
apt to dull their intelects by tobacco
and whisky. If women had a vote,
would the girls of our State have had
TO wait until two years ago, to gain
entrance to our State University? If
women had vote in this city, would
We not have had a curfew law long
ago? The men who have the highest
regard for women are in favor Of
woman suffrage. 81 am glad to say
that in West Virginia, and in Wheel
ing. that there are men with chival-
rous souls who would give us all we
ask, if they could We have overcome
obstacles in the past and will not sue
cumb to those we may meet in the
future"
Rev. Dr.. Sooy then addressed the
assemblage in few we'll chosen re-
marks. unfolding the cause of equal
suffrage.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. chairman
Of the national committee on organiza-
ton made an interesting address to
the conference. She reviewed the
movement from its beginning fifty
Years ago to its present great proper
tons, She said it should not have been
delayed, but for the fact that suffra-
glsts are divided into three classes,
hrst the optimists, who do nothing, be-
cause there is nothing to be done;
second, the pessimists, who do nothing,
because they say it will do no good
third, the amelorists, who work, be-
cause there is work to be done. On
NE shoulders of the latter class the
labor falls.
she spoke of the opposition from
me women themselves, and of legis-
ators.
ne success Of the efforts Of co-edu-