The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-07
Thirty-EIghth Annual Convention Of
National Association.
WILL Be OPENED IN BALTIMORE TONIGHT
Governor Warfield Will Welcome the
DeIegates-Susan B. Anthony
Will Be Present.

annual convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage association
will open at the Lyric theater this
evening and, judging from the large
number of delegates who have arrived
here to attend the convention and the
unusually fine program which has been
prepared for the seven days of the
convention, the latter 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.
Anthony, the founder of the woman
suffrage movement, will attend the
meetings and many of them are sched-
uled for addresses.
At the opening meeting tonight Gov
ernor Warfield will welcome the dele
gates on behalf of the state of Mary
land. the mayor of Baltimore, on be-
half of the city and the collector Of the
port on behalf of the government
Several interesting responses will be
made and addresses by prominent
delegates be delivered.
One evening during the convention
week will be devoted to prominent col
lege women President Remsen, of
Johns Hopkins university, will preside.
The speakers will be Miss M. Carey
Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr;
Mary E. Wooley, president of Mount
Holyoke college; Lucy H. Salmon, pro-
fessor of history, Vassar college; Mary
college: Mary w. Calkins, professor Of
philosophy and psychology, Wellesley
college, and Mrs Charles Park, of the
College Equal Suffrage league.
Another evening will be devoted to
the consideration of the topic of NUM-
cipal government, when men promi-
nent along the lines of municipal re-
form will be heard. Among those who
are to speak on that night are Mr..
Rudolph Blankenburg, of Philadelphia,
who was instrumental in the over
throw of the ring at the last election in
his city; Mr.. Dudley Foulke, of 1ndi-
ana, ex-civil service commissioner;
Hon. Frederick Howe, senator from
Ohio: also Miss Jane Adams, of Hull
House. Chicago, Ill.
There will be another evening de-
voted to Women in History" wnen
addresses will be delivered by Miss
Marie Brem, president of the Illinois
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion; Mrs. Belle de Rivera, president OF
the New York City Woman Suffrage
league: Miss Jane Campbell, president
of the Philadelphia Woman Suffrage
association. and Mrs. Jean Nelson,
Penfeld N Y
Among the other prominent speakers
who will be heard at the convention
are the Rev. Anna H. Shaw, president
of the National Woman Suffrage as
sociation: Mrs. Florence Kelley. New
York City, vice president of the as
ISOLATION and secretary of the National
Consumers league; Mr.. Henry b.
Blackwell. senior editor of the Wom-
ans Journal, Boston, Mass; Mrs.
Henry Waldo Coe, wife of Senator Coe,
of Oregon and president of the Oregon
Woman Suffrage. association; Mrs.
Susan Fessenden, prominent lecturer
of Boston; Mrs. Pauline Steinem,
member of the board of education OF
Toledo. O.: the Rev Herbert S. Bige-
low, pastor of the Vine Street Congre-
gational church, Cincinnati, O.; Mrs.
Lucia Ames Need. director of the Ma
tional Peace society, Boston; the Rev
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, New
York. one of the early pioneers of the
movement; Mrs. Coonley Ward, Chi
cago Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, Chicago.
president of the Illinois State Suffrage
association and trustee of Eureka
college; Miss Mary S. Anthony. sister
of Susan B. Anthony; Miss Harriet
May Mills. organizer for the New YORK
State Suffrage association; Miss Anne
F. Miller, Geneva, N. Y, granddaugh-
ter 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 H. Shaw will conduct
question box. Mrs. Maud Darlington
Booth, of the Salvation Army. will
take a prominent part in the conven-
ton. She will also preach sermon
on Sunday.