The age-herald., 1902-02-15
Women Think Much Good Jan
 Be Done in Dixie
NEWSPAPERS BEST MEDIUM
Suggestion That Woman's Column Be Used In Support of Woman Suf- fraee Mixed With Little Com
 plexion Information.

Washington, February 14-Before the National American Woman Suffrage As- sociation met today the delegates gath cred in informal conference for the pur- pose of discussing press work. Mrs. El- mora M. Babcock, presided.
 She announced that as different portions of the United States needed different remedies. and as the South was a fertile field, the time would be allotted to hear ing from delegates in the Southern States.
 Mrs. Young of South Carolina says she found newspaper work the greatest factor In the dissemination of equal rights ideas. As a member of her State Press Asso- citation, she declared that she had never had any opposition on account of being a woman editor except from one man. who had insisted that 1t would ruin any press association to have women members.
 Mrs. Funk of Maryland said her experi- ence had been that where articles were properly prepared the newspapers accept ed them.
 A suggestion from Mrs. Demirit of Maine was favorably received. Her idea was to have the newspapers adopt a
 
 suffrage in the main. but seasoned with other items of interest.
 Women Would Read 1t.
 Miss Mandox of Maryland agreed with the suggestion of Mrs. Demirit, saying that woman in looking over a paper for receipts for mince pie and fruit cake or something to beautify her complexion will woman suffrage if there is a womans column, and she will undoubtedly read and digest it.
 Mrs. Cheesbrough of Buffalo pleaded for clear, condensed and up-to-date arti- cles for the press.
 When the convention was called to or der, Clara Bewick Coly delivered an ad- dress on industrial problemr, in which she criticised the pending legislation in Congress providing for the abolishment of sick lea1e If government clerks on the ground thn- women were constantly ab- senting the,nselv $. This, she said, ? as covert act of woman herself. In the Interstate Commerce Commission, where 1 no women are employed she said the per l centage of absence for sickness was l greater.
 Mrs. Catt said it was not SD much wonder that woman is being closed out as it was a wonder she was ever appoint ed at all. Only the depletion of the num- Der of men during the civil wa, she said, was responsible for women holding of- | flee. As the pressure for patronage grows stronger, she declared it Is but natural that those who have vote shall be considered less ard less eligible for gov ernment positions. 'It behooves us. said Mrs. Catt, ito hasten the day when l ta in be eligible not only for government posi- tions, but that they may have an equal opportunity with men in all the indus | trial lines of work"
 At the afternoon session discussion of the amendment was resumed. As finally passed the amendment reads as follows
 The Amendment as Passed.
 The persons entitled to vote at the an- nual convention shall be the general off, cers of this association, the chairmen of l the standing committees the State Presi- dents and State members of the national executive committees and one delegate for every 700 paid up members and one for 1 every fraction of one hundred l Section or art of the amended con- l stitution is as follows.
 In the election of officers each mem Der may cast one vote. An absent mem- Der may have a vote cast by delegate from her own State, whom she has au- thorized doing so by giving her proxies and credentials to said person who shall file with both the credential committees
 A trio of men speakers, all of whom are earnest advocates of woman suffrage were the speakers at the evening meet ing.
 The programme included Oswald Garri- son Willard of New York; Civil Service Commissioner Davidly Dudley Fou1ke of Indiana ans John s. Crosby of New York municipal ampaign of 1901 holding that the woman's suffrage committee was a potent factor in bringing about the defeat of Tammany.