Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
.SUFrRACISTS MEET
The Annual Session Is Now on at
Waterloo.
LETTER FROM MRS. EMILY PHILLIPS
Tells Of Work Of the Convention
Mrs. Eva II. selden of Sioux City
the Central Figure at the Meeting
Probably Again Elected President.


| tFrom Thursdays Dailv.l
| Mrs Emily Phillips, of this city, is
in attendance at the state convention
! of the Iowa Equal Suffrage association
now in session in Water loo, and in q
letter TO The Courier gives the proceed
! ings of that Dody.
| Mrs. Eva Fl. Belden, of Sioux Clly,
president of the organization is The
( centrai figure in the meetings. She
will be III ged to accept the office
again next year, on account of her eff
fcient work last year during the legis-
latiye session when the amendment
came near passing both houses giving
women the right to vote IN Iowa. She
will be assisted in that work this year
by Mrs. Dolly Bradley of Denison, vice
president Every county in the state
will be canvassed and petitions circu-
lated.
The past year has been very pros
porous and much has occurred to give
the workers new courage. Mrs. Charles
Belle Brown, of Washington, D. c., has
established an office in Des MONIES and
will fight the suffragists clG. ming they
can do more with love than by the use
of ballots. She is also opposed to the
VI i
teen. her actions are being deeply
censured by the convention.
Mrs. Pnillips' Letter.
Concerning the association and its
meeting Mrs. Phillips says:
THE thin teenth annual meeting of
the Iowa Equal Suffrage association
pet in the Y. M. c. A. auditorium
Wednesday morning w-~n quite full
attendance of delegates and number
of visitors Tuesday evening the local
club planned very pleasant affair
for those present by having meeting
/ of welcome. All were welcomed most
eloauen.ly and royalty by the repre-
, sentatives of the Civic club, the w. G.
It. U. of the Chautarqua Circle, the
superintendent of the schools. the law
fraternity, the mayor and the local fe-
, male suffrage clubs The addresses
were as whole most chivalrous from
: the men Indicating the new idea of
; what true chiyawy is. Wednesday
morning the exercises consisted of the
appointment Of committees, reading OF
minutes of the executive committee,
the reports of state officers, Mrs. Bel,
, den of Iowa City president; Mrs. Mel
lie Nelson, of Des Moines. CORRESPOND
!. ing secretary; Mrs. May l. Coggeshall
f of Des Moines, treasurer.
Y Reports Made.
:. Reports were given of superintend
ents of contest and press work, also
: three minute reports from local clubs
} The reports of the presidents or theil
proxies will be given this afternoon a
e committee The work conference
5 convenes at $50 o'clock; leader, Mrs
Nelson, followed by many others who
$ have been for years prominent in thu
t str tie work. Memorial services il
n memory of the late lamented Mar'h
t Callahan, of Des Moines, We're led b.
MIS-. Ballard of Hull, president.
r Three minute speeches followed b.
g members of the local clubs. The day,
n exercises closed with reception Civ
a en- at the home of Mrs. VOORHEES,, on
s of the first women of the city in mor'
S than once sense of the word. This LIT
n tie city of fifteen thousand inhabitant
n is where the state suffrage paper il
published, THE Woman's Standard.
g. and is a help ana inspiration for veal
@ local clubs who are thus kept in toucl
| with the work all over the state a
well as the general trend of the ide
, Of political equality over the civli7e
3 world. Our list of delegates will b
l. much increased during to day
meeting. The election of of
a GERS will take place and miscellaneou
u business will fill UP the day. enclos
i. one of the programs and will be gle
70 to report today's proceedings when til
- time arrives.
rs From Fridays nnily.i
st Waterloo, Nov. IA, 1901.
IS The Iowa Equal Suffrage associ;
W ton has a full day before it with +,
re ports of committees, election of off
GERS and the final rush of the closin
UP of business, the banning of tn
coming years work, and what is {
he vital Importance to every organic;
TX ton the reising of money for the can
6, pa!gn whlcn il is hoped to be carrie
'o' on in all the states. Then the legi
ry lature convenes again this winter an
we hope that the committee on thu
lg work will be able to so besiege thos
er who are sent there that they will b
in come filled with the true sense of al
Justice due this women's organization
as If this is not done for lis how sha
rs Justice be done. Men and wome
have the same aims and the same i
h terests therefore they should have ii
lg same social rights and political right
of Whatever Our loss as the feminine ell
n ment or the race cannot be the gal
of the male element We must ris
ed or fall together. If man wrongs wor
ON an of any rights he must sure
to wrong himself Wronged of industl
al rights she becomes a more or lie.
W. burden on her brother man, wronge
rs of educational and social rights 81
est becomes narrow, and Wronged of p
litical rights she is a dead weight {
III the body polite along with the lido
lr and criminals and man must carr
yal tiIs dead weight on his shoulders.
read today from the Hon James Nc
TX ton of Ohio, the fo4lowing most tr,
he words. THE intelligence OF wome
her progress as a member of socie
ad the part she plays in earning her ov
ay living and frequently in CONTRIBUTE
er, to the support Of an invalid or shi
me less husband as the case may be a
SIS. only few of the reasons why 81
zen should have just one more privile,
yer accorded her. that of helping to ele