Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-02-13
WOMEN DEMAND
RIGHT TO VOTE
PROMINENT WOMAN SuFFRAG-
lists FROM OVER COUNTRY IN
SESSION IN CHICAGO.

Special to the Herald.
Chicago. Feb. 13.-Prominent wom-
en- suffragists from every section OF
the country are already gathered here
IN considerable numbers and commit.
tee meetings are being held in prep
aration for the thirty-ninth annual
convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage association, which
will be formally opened tomorrow in
Music Hall of the Fine Arts build
ing.
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 Boston,
recording secretary; Harriet Taylor
Upton of Warren. Ohio, treasurer;
and Laura Clay of Lexington, KY,
and Dr. Annice Jeffreys of Portland,
Ore, auditors of the association.
A fine array of talent has been OBJ
tanned to address the various meet
ings, consisting of prominent men and
women who have become famous for
their devotion and labor along differ
ent lines of human activity.
At the first symposium discussion
tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Charles Hen
rotin will preside, and the topic will
be Municipal Suffrage for Women
The speakers and their topics will in
clude Anna E. Nicholas on The Bal
lot for Working Women" Mrs. Ray
mond Robins on THE Civic Duty of
Women" Kate NJ Gordon on Some
Experiments in New Orleans" and
Lila D. Monroe on Municipal Stuff
rage in Kansas"
At the meeting tomorrow evening
addresses will be delivered by Mayor
Dunno, Oliver Stewart and Gertrude
Blackwelder President Anna How
ard Shaw will deliver the annual ad-
dress.
the consideration of Industrial Con-
ditions for Women and Children"
Saturday morning will be given over
to various reports, and in the after
noon the 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
association, with addresses by Mary
z. Coggeswell of Iowa and Prof Emily
Perkins of the Northwestern Univer-
sity.
Among the other prominent speak
ers who will be heard are Rabbi Emil
G. Hirsch, Caroline Lexow of New
York, Dorothy Dix of Louisiana, Luz
cretia L. Blankenburg of Pennsylva-
MIA, Lucy Ames Mead of Massachu-
sets, Alice Henry of Australia, Eliz-
abeth J. Hauser of Ohio, Mary NJ.
Chase of New Hampshire, May Wright
Sewall of Indiana, Fannie ]. Fernald
of Maine, and Jane Adams of Chi
cago.
Friday will be given over exclusive
ly to a memorial to Susan B. Anthony,
who died March 10, 1906. Among the
speakers will be Mary L. T. Gannett
of New York, president of the Susan
B. Anthony Memorial association:
May Wright Sewall of indianapolis.
Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio, and
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones. All State
associations have been asked to con-
slider a memorial and decision may
be reached during the day A hos
pital, monument and large endowment
fund are advocated.
On the last day of the convention
will be a discussion on the ways to
increase memberships in local asso-
Citations. Rachel Foster Avery will
preside. Kate NJ. Gordon of New Or
leans, who holds the distinction of
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