The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-13
MANY IN ATTENDANCE AT
WOMAN SUFFRAGE MEETING.

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. 13.-Hu1dreds of
are arriving in Chicago today
as delegates to the thirty-ninth annu-
al convention of the American Nation
al Woman Suffrage Association. lei
quarters have been established at
the Palmer house, where a meeting
of the executive committee will be
held tonight. All of the delegates will
attend the meeting but will not be al
lowed to a vote or the privilege of
the floor. The executive conference
will be continued through tomorrow.
morning when the plans for Susan B..
Anthony Memorial and other impor-
tant matters will be considered. The
general convention will open to-mor-
row afternoon, when addresses of
welcome will be delivered by promi-
nent Chicago and Illinois women.
A symposium on municipal stuff
rage will be the feature of the open
ing session and addresses will be de-
livered by many prominent women,
and men also.
Friday will be the S7th anniversary
of the birth day of Susan B. Antho-
ny, the noted woman suffrage leader
who died on March 3, last, and the
evening session on that day will be
a public memorial meeting at which
tributes will be paid to Miss Antho-
1y's memory by the Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones. Fannie Barrier Williams
Emily Rowland and others.
The Saturday morning session will
be evoted to the reading of reports,
be escorted to Chicago university,
Hull house and other places of inter
est in the city. In the evening a re-
ception will be rendered the delegates
by the Chicago Woman's club at the
club rooms in the Fine Arts building.
On Sunday afternoon a public meet
ing will be held in Studebaker thea
ter and addresses will be made by the
Reverend Herbert Bigelow, the noted
pastor of Vine Street Congregational
Church at Cincinnati. Miss Jane Ad-
dams, the founder of Hull house, Rab-
bi Emil G. Hirsch and other famous
and women.
Next Monday there will b. a sympo-
postum on Industrial conditions for
Women and Children, with contribu-
lions by Florence Kelley of New York
Graham Romeyn Taylor of illinois;
Mary Mcdowell of Chicago n Alice
Henry of Australia. At the evening
session the report of the delegates
ternational Woman Suffrage alliance
will be submitted and addresses will
be made by Louis Post, editor of the
Chicago Public; Professor Emily Per
kins of Northwestern university and
Mary E. Coggeshall of Iowa.
The convention will close next Tues
day with a conference on Increase of
membership and speeches by Dorothy
Dix, of Louisiana, and the closing re
marks by president, the Rev. Anna
Howard Shaw.
The coming convention will be a
noted one in the history of the wo-
mans rights movements a of
the fact that it will mark the adoption
new tactics on the part of the lead
ers of the association. 1t is stated
that hereafter all the influence of the
organization will be brought to bear
the state legislatures and that the
attempt to secure an amendment to
the national constitution will be aban
doned for the present. Several reform
organizations a promised aid in
this project and have SEN fraternal
delegates + the convention. One of
these is the National Federation for
Peoples Rule. of which the Hon. Geo.
H. Silby, of Washington, d. c., is the
president, AID which has for it's OBJ
ject the inauguration of the direct
vote system. commonly known as the
initiative and referendum. This will
probably be Endorsed at the coming
as the delegates believe
a direct vote of the popular peo-
pie would be favorable to woman suf-
in nearly all states. The mi
and referendum has already
been adopted in South Dakota, Oregon
Montana. Illinois. Utah and other of
states. The legislatures of Della
ware. Maine. Massachusetts,. Michi-
gan and Chic have been pledged to 1t.
as has the Oklahoma constitutional
convention.
TAe present officers of the Nation
al American Woman Suffrage Associa
lion. all OF whom win probably be re-
tained are the Rev. Anna Howard