East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-02-07

Baltimore, Nd, Feb. THE thirty
eighth annual convention of the Ma
uonal American Woman Suffrage as
sociation Will open at the Lyric thea
ter this evening and, judging from the
large number of delegates who have
arrived here to attend the conven-
ton and the unusually fine program
which has been prepared for the
seven days Of the convention, the lat
ter promises to be the largest and
most successful in the history of the
organization. Many of the most
prominent woman suffragists of the
country, among them Susan b. An
thony, the founder of the woman suf-
frage movement, will attend the meet
tngs and many of them are scheduled
for addresses.
At the opening meeting tonight
Governor Warfield will welcome the
delegates on behalf of the state of
Maryland. the mayor of Baltimore on
behalf of the city, and the collector
of the port on behalf of the govern
ment. Several interesting responses
will be made and addresses by prom
inent delegates will be delivered.
one evening during the convention
week will be devoted to prominent
college women. President Remsen of
Johns Hopkins university, will pre-
side. The speakers will be Miss NJ.
Carey Thomas, president of Bryn
Mawr; Mary E. Wooley, president Mt.
Holyoke college; Lucy NJ. Salmon,
professor OF history, vassar college;
Mary A. Jordan, professor If Eng
lish, Smith college; Mary w. Calkins,
professor of philosophy and 'psych-
ology, Wellesley college, and Mrs.
Charles Park of the College Equal
Suffrage league.
Another evening will be devoted to
the conside grafton of the topic of
municipal government. when men
prominent along the lines of munich
pal reforms, will be heard Among
those who are to speak on that night
are Mr.. Rudolph Blankenburg of
Philadelphia, who was instrumental
in the overthrow of the rings at the
last election in his city; Mr.. Dudley
Foulke OF Indiana, ex-civil service
commissioner; Hon. Frederick Howe.
'Nhh''i llOih oIllOs dlsO MISS Jane
Adams of Hull House, Chicago.
There will be another evening, de-
voted to Women in History" when
addresses will be delivered by Miss
Marie Brem, president of the Illinois
Women's Christian Temperance
union: Mrs. Belle de Rivera. presi-
dent Of the New York City Woman
Suffrage league; Miss Jane Campbell
president of the Philadelphia Woman
Suffrage association, and Mrs Jean
Nelson, Penfield n. Y.
Among the other prominent speak,
ers who will be heard at the convon-
tion are the Rev. Anna II. Shaw, pres
ident of the National Woman Suffrage
association; Mrs. Florence Kelley.
New York city. vice-presidcnt of the
association and secretary of the Ma
tional Consumers league Mr.. Henry
h. Blackwell, senior editor OF the
Woman's Journal, Boston, Mass,
Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe. wife of Sem
ator Coe OF Oregon, and president OF
the Oregon Woman Suffrage associa-
ton; Mrs. Susan Fessenden. u pro nj
nent lecturer of Boston; Mrs. Pauline
Steinem, member of the boar1 of eiu-
cation of Toledo, o.; the Rev. Herbert
5. Bigelow, pastor of the Vine Street
Congregational church. Cincinnati. O
Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, director of
the National Peace society, Boston:
the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
New York, one of the early pioneers
Of the movement; Mrs. Coonley Ward,
Chicago; Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, Chi
cago. president of the Illinois state
Suffrage association and trustee of
Eureka college; Miss Mary S. An
thony. sister of Susan r. Anthony;
Miss Harriet May Mills, organizer Tor
the New York state Suffrage associa-
ton: Miss Anne +. Miller, Geneva, y.
Y. granddaughter of Garrett Smith.
Miss Florence Kelley will conduct
conference on industrial problems.
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, president
of the International Woman Suffrage
association, will be present and will
submit a report for her association.
The Rev. Anna II. Shaw, president Of
the National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation. will conduct question box.
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, of the
Salvation Army, will take promi-
nent part in the convention. She will
also preach sermon on Sunday.
The delegates will leave Baltimore
after the convention and go to Wash
ington. D. c., where a celebration will
be held in observance of Miss Susan
b. Anthony's seth birthday on Feb
ruary. Is, in the Church of Our
Father 1t is expected that Miss Clara
po,ton will he there. if her health
permits.