The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-13
DEMAND
FOR BALLOT
PROMINENT STFFRAG. +.
ISTS ARE GATHER
ING IN CHICAGO
IN 39TH ANNUAL SESSION
Well Known People to Take
Part in Deliberations
(By Associated Press.l

Chicago H.. Feb 13-Prominen
women suffragists from every section,
of the country are already gathered
here in considerable number and com
mittee meetings are being held in prep
aration for the thirty-ninth annual
Woman Suffrage association, which
will be formally opened tomorrow IN
Music Han of the Fine Arts building,
Those already here include Rev
Anna Howard Shaw of Swarthmore.
Pa, the president of the association
Florence Kelley of New York City.
vice president; Kate NJ Gordon OF
New Orleans. corresponding secre.
tary; Alice Stone Blackwell of Bos-
ton, recording secretary: Harriet ray.
lor Upton of Warren. Ohio. treasurer.
and Laura Clay Of Lexington. KY, and
DR.. Annice Jeifreys Myers OF Port.
land, Ore. auditors of the association
A fine array OF talent has been oh
tanned to address the various meet
ings. consisting Of prominent men AMI
women who have become famous To-
their devotion and labor along differ
ent ines of human activity.
At the first symposium discussion
tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Charles Hen
rotin will preside, and the tonic viii
be Municipal Suffrage for Women
The speakers and their topics will in
cude Anna T. Nicholas on The Ballot
for Working Women" Mrs Raymond
Robins on The Civic Duty OF Women,
Kate NJ, Gordon on jome Experiments
in New Orleans and Lila ID Monroe
ON Municipal Suffrage in Kansas"
At the meeting tomorrow evenin y
addresses will be delivered by Mayor
Dunno, Oliver Stewart and Gersrud
Blackwelder. resident Anna Howard
Shaw will deliver the annual address.
Friday afternoon will be devoted II
the consideration of "lnduetrial Condi-
tons for Women and Children" Sat
urday morning viii be gwen over to va
rious reports, and in the afternoon
he delegates will visit Hull House
and the University of Chicago.
One evening will be devoted to the
| report Of the Copenhagen meeting OF
the international Woman Suffrage az
sociation. with addresses by Mary Il,
Coggeswell of Iowa and Prof Emily
| Perkins OF Northwestern university.
Among the other prominent speak
ers who will be heard are Rabbi Emil
VI illI0Glt AdIOllit latAOW vi NtW
York Dorothy Dix of Louisiana, Lu.
cretia l.. Blankenburg of Pennsylvania
Lucia Ames Mead of Massachusetts,
Alice Henry OF Australia, Elizabeth j..
Hauser OF Ohio. Mary NJ Chase OF
New Hampshire, May Wright Sewal
Of Indiana Fannie j. Fernald OF
Maine. and Jane Addams OF Chicago.
Friday will be given over exclu-
sively to memorial 20 Susan b. An
thony, who died March 13. 1906.
Among the speakers will be Mary L.
r. Gannett of New York. president OF
| the Susan b. Anthony Memorial az
sociation; May Wright Sewall of In
diapapolis, Harriet Taylor Upton OF
Ohio, and Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones.
All state associations have been ask
ed to consider a memorial and a de
cision may be reached during the day
| A hospital, monument and large en-
! dowmeht fund are advocated
On the last day of the convention
] will be a discussion on the ways ~
increase memberships in local associ-
ations. Rachel Foster Avery will pre-
| side Kate M Gordon of New Or
leans, who holds the distinction Of hav
ing voted more than 800 times at on
! election in her home city, will lead
the discussion. When the law waa
amended so that women could vote in
New Orleans it provided that they
might cast their ballots by proxy
Kate Gordon was among those who
thought that the city should have sew
ers, and before election came collect
ed the proxies of more than 300 wo
| men, which she voted at the polls.