Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-09
REFUSES REELECTION
Mrs. Gait, Woman's Suffrage
President, to Retire.
POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR
BELIEVED THAT REV. ANNA
SHAW WILL BE CHOSEN.
Program of Exercises for the Coming
Convention-Miss Anthony's
Birthday Anniversary.

| Woman Suffrage Association will open at
National Rifles Armory Thursday after
| noon, February IL. The sessions will ex-
| tend into next week and will be held
| day and night. The evening sessions will
| be given over to addresses by prominent
! speakers from all over the country, among
| them being a number of men.
At the meeting Of the executive board
| held yesterday five delegates were appoint
| ed to the International suffrage convention
| to be held in Berlin In June. This 1nterna-
| tional organiZatio and convention had Its
| inception in Washington two years ago.
| The delegates appointed were Miss susan D..
| Anthony, past national PRESIDENT VINO
served as the president Of the national BODY
| for nearly forty years; Mrs Carrie Chap
| man Gait, national president, who Will re-
| tire this year; Mrs. Lucretia Blackenberg,
| Rev. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs Rachel
Foster Avery.
The international convention, although an
entirely new feature, is said to be received
with enthusiasm wherever woman suffrage
| is known. Elaborate preparations are being
made in Berlin for the entertainment OF the
guests.
Birthday Anniversaries.
At the last national convention or the
Suffrage Association it was voted to recon-
mend to the woman suffrage clubs OF the
country the celebration of the birthday an
nlVGrSdTleS OI the HIec great iCouCiS VI eiiS
suffrage movement. Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton, Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony.
The first two came in July and October, re-
spectively and it is said they widely
observed by the suffrage clubs and other
organized bodies of thinking women
throughout the country.
Miss Anthony's anniversary will occur
February 10, when she says she will be
eighty-fOur years young. Great prepare
tons are being made to observe the ami
nrIN md no h4V
celebrated in the public schools is said to
| have been quite successful Miss Anthony
loves children and began her career as a
school teacher, and she takes the deepest
interest in the young today. Then 1t is said
that temperance organiZa lions honor M IS
Anthony because all her life she has been
an active worker in the temperance cause.
Monday. February To- will be Miss An
thony day in the national suffrage conVen-
ton.
| One of the surprises of the convention
will be the declnation of Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait to accept the national presi-
dency again. By too close attention to the
details of the great national body Mrs.
| Gait is pretty we'll warn out, she declares,
and she desires a rest from the RESPONSE
| bilities though she will go on with the
work 1t is thought probable that Rev.
| Anna II. Shaw, the ice-president-at-large,
| will be elected president. 1t is stated that
| had not Mrs. Gait accepted the presidency
| when Miss Anthony laid it down DR.. Shaw
| would have been elected. Both women are
| extremely popular, and they are warm per-
| sonal friends.
| The national officers now in the city are
| Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait president: Rev
| Anna Howard Shaw, vice presidential
| large; Kate NJ German, corresponding sec
| rotary; Alice Stone Blackwell, recording
| secretay, Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer,
| and Miss Laura Clay and Mary j. Cooges-
| hall. auditors.
| The headquarters during the week will be
| at the Shoreham where the national Of
! ficers are handsomely housed. Mrs. An
| thony, who is accompanied by her secretary
| and niece, Miss Lucy Anthony, Is the hon
| Ored guest of the Shoreham. Forty years
| ago Miss Anthony came to Washington,
| pleading the cause of suffrage, and there
| was scarcely a hotel that would house her
| or any of the suffrage party.
| Two features of interest to the suffra gists
| and their friends will be a reception at the
White House, rendered by Mrs. Roosevelt,
| at go Monday afternoon. Admission by
| card only. At $3.50 the same afternoon Miss
| Clara Barton will give a reception at her
| home in Glen Echo.
The Opening Session
The first meeting of the convention will
be held in National Rifles Armory Thurs
| day afternoon at 2:30 O'clock and will be
| called to order by the president Carrie
| Chapman Gait. Rev. Anna II. Shaw will
| deliver the invocation, following which con-
| gregational singing will be led by Miss
! Eta v. Maddox of Maryland. Harriet
| Taylor Upton, eX-officio chairman of the
committee on credentials, will then report
on credentials and the national president
| Will appoint her committees on finance
! courtesies. credentials and resolutions and
| also the timekeepers and convention pa ges
| Reports of the executive committee the
| corresponding secretary, Kate NJ Gordon,
and report of headquarters secretary
| Elizabeth j. Hauser, will be read The re-
| port of the -Four Friends will be pre-
tod III.
| greeting from England will be presented
| and then the Star Spangled Banner will
| b., sung by Miss Emma Lore of Delaware.
This will be followed by the roll call of
| states for presentation of new business, ac-
| cording to vote of the New Orleans conven-
ton. Ida Hustled Harper will present the
| report of the committee on declaration of
| principles.
| ing will be opened with prayer by Rev.
! Alexander Kent. pastor of Peoples Church.
| followed by greetings presented by Susan
| Il. Anthony. honorary president. and by
Rev. Anna II. Shaw, vice president. Kate
| NJ. Gordon, corresponding secretary, will
speak on "a Sustaining Faith,' and Alice
Stone Blackwell, recording secretary, on
| the New Woman" Other addresses will
| be. "A Word From Pioneer" Harriet
| Taylor Upton, treasurer: Dimes" Laura
! Clay. first auditor; "Precedents." Mary j.
Coggeshall, second auditor. Following
| these Carrie Chapman Gait, national presi-
dent, will present her annual address.
Program for Friday.
The session of Friday, February H. will
| open at 1870 O'Clock am. with prayer by
| Laura Clay. The committee on credentials
will make its report. to be followed by the
reports of the treasurer, Harriet Taylor
UPTON; the auditors, Laura Clay and Mary
| J. Coggeshall, and the reports of standing
| committees. as follows: Federal suffrage,
| Sarah Clay Bennett, chairman; congress
| sional, Virginia Shafroth, chairman; pres-
| DENTAL Henry Il. Blackwell, chairman;
press work, Elnora Monroe Babcock chair
| man; work of the press conference, Lucy
| Hobart Day presiding.
| In the afternoon the convention will open
at 2:30 with prayer by Mrs Marie Jenny
| Howe, followed by congregational singing,
led by Miss Eta V. Maddox. Reports and
| addresses of state presidents will be pre-
scented as follows: Alabama, Miss Frances
| Griffin; California. Mrs. l. N. Chapman,
| proxy: Connecticut, Mrs. Elizabeth d. Ba-