The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-02
WARM DEFENSE
FOR PRESIDENT
Suffragists Do Not Look Upon Roose-
welt as Opposed to Them.
ACTS SHOW THE CONTRARY
FRATERNAL GREETINGS SENT BY
GOMPERS.

Portland, Ore, July 1.-The National
American Woman Suffragist associa-
ton today received enthusiastically
the following telegram from Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation OF Labor:
Kindly convey fraternaI greetings to
your convention. and the earnest ex-
preston Of our hope for the enfran-
chisement and disenthrallment of wo-
men"
The state report from Kansas, pre-
scented by Mrs. Sadie =. Grisham, pres
ideut. reviewed the efforts TO secure
from the last legislature the right for
women to vote for presidential elect
ors- 1T was carried in the house by 50
yeas, 40 nays. amid great enthusiasm.
A few days later the bill was inOppor-
tunely brought up in the senate and de-
feated.
New Leagues Reported.
Massachusetts reported the forming
OF eleven new suffrage leagues and the
enrolment OF 100 new members.
Vermont, through Miss-L.aura Moore,
secretary, reported that a bill for mu-
nicipal suffrage passed the senate with
only three opposing votes 1t received
ninety-seven favorable votes in the
house, but was lost by three votes.
For Missouri Alice G. Mulkey, presi-
dent, stated that the efforts of the suf-
4TdBe association mad Deen used for
the bills providing for compulsory edu-
cation and making it a felony to sell
liquor to a minor, both of which
passed.
The Nebraska association. Mrs. Clara
a. Young. president, made a vigorous
effort. strongly supported by public
sentiment, TO have the dover Inherit
ance of widows abolished and equal
rights established, but the legislature
refused to pass the law.
The death was announced of Rev.
Augusta Chaplin of New York. the first
woman minister to receive the degree
of doctor of divinity.
Roosevelt a Suffraaist.
a resolution was adopted protesting
against the statement I'm the London
Fortnightly Review, by Lucas MaIet.
that President Roosevelt is an oppon-
ent OF the extension of suffrage to wo-
men and an enemy of equal rights. At
tention was called to the Sact that as A
member Of the New York legislature
Mr.. Roosevelt repeatedly voted for wo-
man suffrage, and as governor he re-
commended it in his inaugural MESA ge
TO the legislature. Reference was
made to his action as police commits
sioner of New York in Imposing penal
ties for dtSOrderiy conduct impartiafIy
against men and women and to his
constant defence of womanhOOd The
convention voted down by a~large ma
tority President RooseveltH recon-
mendation of the whipping post for
Wife-beaterS
The discussion on How Best to It'll
ize the Press" led by Mrs. Ida Hustled
Harper of New York. showed that the
women were shrewdly informed as to
the best methods Of securing the friend
" cooperation of editors and man
ayers.
Evening Session.
At the evening session s.oanroso,,4,
ton was discussed by Ella =. Stewart
of Illinois; Suffrage and Education =
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell Of
massachusetts,; "A Word From the
Middle West" by Mary J. CoggeshaIl
Of Iowa; "A Square Deal" Gail Laugh
lin, Maine.
On Sunday the pulpits of the Baptist.
CongTegatiOnaiiSt. Unitarian and Meth
udist Episcopal churches will be occu-
pied by Miss Susan y. Anthony of New
York. Rev Antoinette r. Blackwell of
Massachusetts. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman OF New York. Rev. Eleanor
Gordon of Iowa and Miss Laura Clay
of Kentucky.