The Washington times., 1902-02-09
international Convention
to Be Held Here.
PIONEER NIGHT A FEATURE.
Hope Is Expressed by Lenders for
the Formation of an International
OrEanizatiOn-An Excellent Pro-
grammc Has Been Arranged.

| next Wednesday afternoon at the First
Presbyterian Church on Fourth Street.
The occasion will be joint session of
the National American Womans Suffrage
Association and the International Wom-
ans Suffrage Association. The most prom
| inent believers in woman's rights, as well
as some of those who were the pioneers
in the movement, will be present.
The business committee of the organiza-
ton arrived in Washington yesterday, and
after working hard all day completed the
programme last night.
The Joint convention will continue from
February Il to Is. Other gatherings of
women will be in Washington at about the
same time, SO that for nearly two weeks
the Capital will have hundreds of guests
Of The fair sex within its gates.
Interesting Programmes Arranged
Interesting programmes have been ar
| ranged for every session of the conference.
Among those distinguished women who
will speak will be Susan b. Anthony. form
er president OF the association, and other
veterans in the ranks of the movement
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait successor 20
Miss Anthony as head of the organization,
is in Washington. Yesterday she spoke
hopefully of the progress of women, and
looked forward with considerable conf
dence to the coed results which she ex-
poets from the forthcoming meetings. She
hopes, she said, to see woman's suffrage
extend and broaden out, not only in this
country, hut in Europe, where already it is
gaining great headway
Hr.. Carrie Gait to Preside
Mrs. Gait will preside over the delibera-
tions of the body while sitting in this city
for the first time. For over forty years
Miss Susan B. Anthony has been the head
OF this body Of women. Two years ago she
declined TO b. again elected to the honor
OF the presidency.
The hope is expressed by the suffrage
leaders that an international organization
will be formed as suggested and outlined
by Mrs. Gait. This matter has been much
discussed during the past few months.
and was brought up yesterday at the
meeting of the Baltimore suffra gists. at
which Mrs. Gait, Rev. DR.. Shaw, and other
prominent suffraSists were present.
Feature of the Convention.
One of the features of the convention
is to be the introduction of a mass of in
formation concerning the legal, social
educational, Industrial, religious, and po-
litical status OF women, CLEANED from
every civilized portion of the world
through the American Consuls and mis-
sionaries. These data are thought to be as
correct as it is possible to make them and
are said TO be full OF interest
The chairmen of the local committees
are as follows: General chairman, Mrs.
Helen Rand Tindall, 21O3 California Ave-
nue.; committee on printing, Miss Cathar-
Inc Fleming: press work. Mrs Elcca-a
babcock; decoration, Mrs Mary l.. Tai
bot So6 Twelfth Street; music, Miss Mary
Hood. the Litchfeld. 1t is expected that
ABOUT 900 delegates. aiternates. and yisi-
tors viii be present at the convention.
AT the first evening meeting all the pio-
neers OF the organization will take pos
session OF the convention when the pro-
gramme will be entirely in their hands.
Such old veterans IS Julia Ward Howe.
Isabelle Beecher Hooker, Henry B. Black
well, husband of the late Lucy Stone;
MISS Anthony, Rev. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell. who was the first woman to
be ordained in the world; Rev. Olympia
Brown, of Wisconsin, and others will be
the speakers.
Pioneers Who VIII Attend.
This session will be known as Pioneer
Night" and one of the most interesting
events of the conference is expected. The
youngest speaker to deliver an address, on
that night is seventy eight years old, so
that the very foundation of the order will
DO reached.
The following women orators and guests
from all over the country will sit on the
platform on Pioneer Night"
Mrs. Helen p. Jenkins, Detroit; Dr.
Jane " MYERS. Cynroyd Pa. Mrs Mary
B. Trimble, New York; Mrs John w.
Hutchinson, Lynn, Mass; Mrs Phoebe
Wright, Manasquan n. j.; Mrs Virginia
d. Young, Fairfax, S. c.: Mrs. William
Lloyd Garrison, Boston; Miss Laura
Moore, Barnet, Vt; Mrs. Emily Burton
ketcham. Grand Rapids, Mich; Mrs Har-
riet Jackson, Ashton, Md. Mrs. H. E.
Burger. Glendale, y. Y; Miss Mary An
thony, Rochester, y. Y; Mrs. G. NJ S. p. |
Jones, Philadelphia; Mrs. Helen Coffin |
Budy, Washington, ID. c.: DR.. Agnes |
Kemp, swarthmore, Pa; John X Wild
man, Bristol, Pa. Mr.. and Mrs Pierce. |
Philadelphia; Mrs. NJ. II. Grove. Fair
mont, W. Va; DR.. Abby VI. Fulton, ELS |
worth, Me; Mrs. Stanton, Cincinnati; |
Mrs. Caroline L. Mcrrick, New Orleans; |
Or. Charles y. Purvis, Washington; Vir- |
Sinia Clay Clifton, Alabama Hon Simon |
Wolf. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, Eliza Titus |
Ward, and DR.. Mayo, Washington. D. c.; |
Mrs. Caroline Hallwell Miller, Maryland,
and Rev Antoinette Brown Blackwell, |
New York
Oldest of the Pioneers.
Among the pioneers who are expected
is Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, now
eight-seven years OF age. She is the only
woman living who attended the first
Woman's Rights Convention ever held in
the world, at Seneca Falls. n. Y, July,
lSiS, fiftyfour years ago. The direct
cause OF calling this convention was the
refusal OF a Worlds Fair Anti-Slavery
meeting held in London in 1910 to admit
women as delegates. although they had
crossed the ocean for that purpose
Mrs. Stanton was among the party. al
though not delegate but she felt 90
indignant at the treatment OF the women |
delegates that she vowed then and there
to call Woman's Rights Meeting as soon
as she returned to America 1t was not
however, until 1S4S that the meeting was
called. At that time the ballot was not
thought of among the rights asked for by
he women.
They were asking for the right to an
for the right of free speech
% have control of their own property
md to enter any profession they saw
1t. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the only
woman present at this convention who |
hought that the right to the ballot should
De Included in their declaration of rights
Douglass was of the same opin-
on. and through her eloquence the con-
'ention voted to embody the right OF
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