Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-03
TO THEMSELVES.
HOLD A QUIET CONFERENCE
>e.nsl. Not Made Public. But Breach
with the "w's- is Believed TO De
ro.ibIc-ord Grievances Aired on
the Convention Floor.
tho Convention Floor.

posiblc-OId Grievances ihEeo ""
the Convention Floor.
The morning session OF the convention
q, tho woman.s Christian Temperance
Union. at the Seventh-Street Chrisuah
church yesterday, Will Ions be rememoef-
ed by those who were present. Ut was d
very warm one, and, but Tor a 'lisie''
admoni;ion from the pastor OF the chutci.
Rev. Carey Z. Morgan, it Wouio nave
been warmer It was the first real Hsht
and /, was won easily by the admins
ration forces. because Mrs. Howard NJ
1doge was reelected to serve hei M"
Term as president The fight on the lai
of The Us vas made against MIS- iioss'
bu. she was reelected again, lhc Vo'I ~
ing l;s in her favor 10 IS for Mrs. ). i.
jobseu. 80
A number Of charges were mace on 'iie
600, nv members of the warning factions,
and for The first time the VS. attempted
10 explain some OF the charges MADE
against them os
Eetween the afternoon and night ses-
sions Of the convention conference "
some of the workers was held at 'he
,SOmanS CHRISTIAN <ASoCiSstioii.
reporied that there was a good attend
,nce at The conference. but what was
i1ne is a sealed book. At any rate. 'hose
resent pledged themselves to keep me
celebrations secret and every attempt
made last. night to ascertain the result Va
The meeting was baked.
There is a firm belief, however.
that some Of the workers leei
hat they have been badly treateu'
and last night they seemed to be depanis
what was the best thing to do. 1t was
pointed out that three things are open to
these Us: Remain in the organization
and work with the present officials; Secede
from the Parent organization and WORK III
dcpendently or retire absolutely from the
work. One of these ladies said last night,
..Oh. that some one would tell me "here
my duty lies" II is evident that many
OF them are in dilemma and do not know
what to 90.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The morning session was opened with
devotional exercises which were conduct
ed by Rev. w f. l.. Smith, d. D.
When the election of officers was reach
ed. Mrs NJ c. Faville, of Norfolk, arose
and read to the convention the petition
which was formulated in Norfolk on Feb
ruary 9th. 1892, along with the three re-
quests. which We're printed III the DIS
patch of "Wednesday morning Mrs. fa-
VILE said the petition for these conces-
sions had been signed by several nun
dred members of the VS. throughout the
State. Mrs Bagby moved that the petl-
ton be adopted.
Miss Johnakin spoke on the question:
and urged that day be given the
and for a larger recognition Of the S and
1tlei:. work. Mrs. Townsend SAID she was
q w. gray-haired and over 5O, and was not
hunting husband. Said she was favor
able to adopting the petition, but did not
agree with the sta tement that the
were not properly recognized at the Nor
folk convention.
Mrs Wells said she had been in the
work thirty-four years. and was sorry
that the State she loved best was the
first to have trouble of this kind. she
spoke on the value of being on the major
fly side. and urged those in the minority
TO work up to the other. SAID she saw
the State Y secretary preside over the Y
conference and never saw any one more
just.
At this juncture it was suggested that
the petition be taken up seriatin and
Miss Gordon said in matters of this KIND
the two sides should be freely discussed
IN a friendly manner, and asked Mrs
J1oge TO take the chair
NOT REFUSED RECOGNITION.
Mrs Jones spoke on the second para
graph of the petition, and claimed that the
y delegates had never been refused rec
cgnition on the floor of the convention;
she said she was State president for ten
years and worked for the Us and the
State secretary. She tried hard to make
clear to the convention that VS. had been
fairly represented among the general OIL
Gers and superintendent of departments,
Elthough it was brought out by the other
side that only seven out of twenty-nine
Killing certain positions We're representa-
tives from the Us Mrs. Jones said that
the Us who We're capable and willing to
take places of superintendent of depart
mentS had been given these places. She
said they had always given Us such work
they were capable Of doing. and that
there is certain work that they could not
do. and that there are some committees
she would not like TO be on herself, after
being fifteen years in the work.
AS to allowing the Us q whole day be-
fore the convention proper opened" seem
ed to be Mrs Jones strong point-she
acknowledged it was her point, and said
she started tho trouble there. She had
suggested al meeting (when four
presidents We're present and they did not
dissent, that the Y day be done away
with. we can't afford the time" said
she, there are SO many things that come
UP III t1e state convention ana we already
have four days, and we ought not to make
the convention longer, and thereby impose
on the generosity of those who entertain
U.s. Mrs. Jones said. We lifted the VS.
and the Us are wondering where to-?
They. don't seem to understand" SAID
she, that they are young, and must be
trained; we want you-our heads are go
ing down-we want you to take our
places
On the entertainment problem Mrs.
Jones waxed warm and said: Scarcely
anybody invites us to come; they don't
want conventions to come any more
She said she walked the streets of Nor
folk two months last year trying to get
entertainment for the convention. She
said seventeen young women in Char
lottesvilie had to take care of the Y dele
gates who for Y day conference
lntil the homes were open for them. and
closed with the broad statement that she
loved the girls and every one in the con-
vention and that the convention belonged
to the girls as much the VS..
WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE HER
Miss Mann said that she was the one
who was not recognized on the Norfolk
convention floor, and said further that
Tho ware