The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-15
WOMEN TO co TO
CRESCENT CITY
A
Select New Orleans as the LoCa-
ton of Convention.
FRANK CANh0N'S SPEECH
FORMER SENATOR TELLS HOW
HE WAS CONVERTED.
FRANK CANNoN'S SPEECH

WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.-New Or
w leans has been selected as the
next meeting place Of the suf-
frage convention.
Before the National Woman Suffrage
association met today the delegates
gathered in informal conference for the
purpose Of discussing press work. Mrs.
Finora NJ. Babcock presided. She an
nOunced that the different portions Of
the United States needed different rem
edies, and as the south was a fertile
field, the time would be allotted TO
hearing from delegates from the south
ern states.
MRS. Young of South Carolina said
she found newspaper work the greatest
factor in the dissemination of equal
rights idea. As a member Of her state
Press association, she declared she had
never had any opposition in the assO-
citation on account Of being a woman
editor except from one man who had
insisted that it would ruin any press
association to have women members
Mrs. Funk Of Maryland said her ex-
perience had been that with her arti-
cles properly prepared the newspapers
accepted them.
Wants a Woman's Column.
A suggestion from Mrs. DeMerritt Of
Maine was tavOIab-y received. Her
idea was to have the newspapers adopt
a ''woman's column" devoted TO wo-
man suffrage in the main, but seasoned
with items of interest.
Miss MandO OF Maryland agreed
with the suggestion Of Mrs. DeMerritt,
a paper for recipes for mince pie and
fruit cake or something to beautify her
complexion will stumble across a para
graph about woman suffrage if there
is a woman's column, and that she Will
undoubtedly read and digest il.
Mrs. Chasbrough of Buffalo pleaded
for clear, condensed and up-to-date ar
ticles for the press. The difficulty that
the woman suffrage organization en-
cOuntered she said, was in furnishing
to the newspapers something new.
showing what advance is being made
in the work.
When the convention was called TO
order Clara Bewick Cody delivered an
address on Industrial Problems" in
which she criticised the pending legis-
/ latiOn in congress providing for the
adjustment of sick leave Of govern
ment clerks, on the ground that wo-
men were constantly absenting them
selves. This, she said, was a covert
attack on womanhood. In the inter
state commerce commission where no
women are employed. she said. the
/ percentage Of absence for sickness was
greatest.
Why They Got Jobs.
Mrs. Gait said, in response TO these
remarks, that it was not as much a
wonder that woman is being closed out
as it is a wonder that ever she was
appointed at all. Only The depletion Of
the number of men during the civil
war, she said, was responsible for WO-
men holding Office. As the pressure for
patronage grows stronger. she de
clared, it is but natural that those who
I have no votes shall be considered less
and less eligible for government posi-
tiOns.
1T behooves US" said Mrs. Gait. ito
/ hasten the day when woman may vote
! in order that they may be eligible not
! only for government positions, but that
; they may have an equal opportunity
with men in all the industrial lines OF
work"
! Speaking in behalf Of the committee
on legislation, Gail Laughlin said that
/ their duties were somewhat restricted
/ from the fact that this is an ''Off year
! in politics, but that in eight states
/ holding elections this year the state
/ suffrage associations are making ef-
1 forts TO obtain larger rights
/ Susan B. Anthony said she believed
/ in carrying the gospel of woman SUI
rage TO every convention of men and
women that could he reached by nei-
I ther Catholics. Presbyterians. con
! gressmen nor others who come to the
! convention.
Therefore" she said, Eve must ga
/ TO them" She pleaded for suffrage for
4 the women Of Hawaii, Porto Rico and
( the Philippines. After referring TO the
500 school teachers who had gone tC
! the Philippine islands. she said:
Think Of them being put under the
/ heel Of the barbarians Of the Philip
pines and the barbarians sent from
/ this country"
Amendment is Adopted.
/ At the afternoon session discussion
/ of the pending amendment was re-
/ sumed. As finally passed, the amend
ment reads as follows: The persons
entitled 10 vote at the annual conven-
! ton shall be the general officers of this
/ association, the chairmen of the stand
, ing committees, the state presidents
and state members of the national ex-
/ ecutive committee. and every deIegat;
/ for every 100 paid up members, anC
I one for every fraction OF 100
Section 4 Of article Of the consti-
{ tuition was amended as follows: II
! the election Of officers each member
Of the committee may cast one vote
/ An absent member may have her vote
cast by a delegate from her own state
whom she has authorized 10 do so by
giving her proxy and her credential,
TO said person, who shall file both witt
( the credentials committee
/ Toward the close Of the Afternoon
/ session ex-senator Frank Cannon d
( Utah addressed the convention. H,
was received with loud applause. auC
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