The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-18
OFFICERS ELECTED
 BY THE W. [. I. J, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens is
 Made President
UNION OPPOSED 10 SMOOT
Resolution Adopted to Fight Aoalnst Polygamy and the Apostle of the Mormon Hlerarohy-Won1-
 ans Suffrage Favored.

Cincinnati, November 1.-The national Woman's Christian Temperance union today elected the following officers; Pr.~ ident, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, Port land, Me; corresponding secretary. Mrs, Susan M D. Frye. Evanston, Ills; re- cording secretary, Mrs. Clara c. Hoff- man, Kansas City, Mo. treasurer, Mrs, Helen Morton Barker, Evanston, Ills.
 Owing to quite a large vote cast for Mrs. Francis E. Beaucamp of Lexington, Kys on the first ballot, second ballot was taken for recording secretary. Mrs. Clara Parish Wright Paris, ILL, was elected branch secretary of the young women's branch and Mrs Helen c. Rice, Roxbury, Mass. of the Loyal Temperance Legion. The president named Miss Anna E. Gordon of Evanston, H.. as vice pres ident at large. The recording secretary nominated Mrs. Francis E. Beauchamp as assistant recording secretary and both nominations were confirmed
 The discussion of resolutions took up the entire afternoon, The treatment of the St. Louis fair was modified from its first form which proposed to ask Pres ident Francis to demand of the mayor and city council of St. Louis that no im- moral houses be permitted within one mile of the exposition grounds.
 Polyeamy Clause Discussed.
 Longer discussion was given to the po- lygamy clause and it's final form was fixed after an Oklahoma delegate object- ed to the proposition that no more states be admitted to the union until an anti polygamy amendment to the constitution had been adopted The resolutions as adopted are as follows:
 Since our work is one of formation as well as reformation we stand firmly for total abstinance for the individual.
 Relieving that the liquor traffic is morally wrong and therefore can never be made legally right, we oppose all forms of regulation and again pledge our selves to endeavor to secure legislation as shall result in complete prohibition.
 We stand for an equal code of morals for women and men and emphatically condemn every system for the regulation of vice.
 Resolved That we rejoice In the clos ing of the gates of the worlds fair on Sunday and in other efforts being made to purify St, Louis and further we memo rialize the mayor and council to make special efforts to enforce the laws of the city against houses used for immoral pur- poses during the time of the fair.
 Believe In Suffrage.
 we believe that all women of the United States should vote on equal terms witn men, as in Wyoming, Colorado. Idaho and Utah
 We believe that poygamy is both taught and practiced in the United States and there is abundant proof to sub stantiate the claim that Utah has broken faith with the United States in this mat ter. We ask congress to provide an amendment to the constitution of the United States forever prohibiting polyg- amy. We also believe that an apostle the Mormon hierarchy cannot be a loyal citizen of this republic because of his vows to another organization separate and distinct from the United States of America, and not subordinate to it, but claiming superiority over 1t. We, there fore, ask that MT. Reed Shoot be ex- cluded from the United States senate on the ground that his highest allegiance is given to a government other than that of the United States
 ''We believe this to be a civil question which should not be obscured by religious l or ecclesiastical terms"