Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-13
SUFFRAGISTS TO
MEETT0MORR0W
ThiRTS-hlnTH ANNUAL cosvEN
TON OF NATIONAL woMEN'S
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
NOTABLE GATHERING
Hereafter An The Influence Of the Or.
sanlzatton VIII be Brought to Bear
On State Legislatures

on state legislatures.
Chicago. Feb. l3.-Hundreds of W.
men ara arriving In Chicago today a.
delegates To the thirty-ninth annual
convention OF the American National
Women's Suffrage Association. Head.
quarters have been established NJ the
Palmer house. where a meeting Of the
executive committee will be held To-
night, All the delegates will atteni
the meeting but will o be allowed a
vote or the privilege Of the floor. The
executive conference will be continued
tomorrow morning. when plans for the
Susan ID. Anthony memorial and 9th.
Ter important matters will be consider.
led. The general convention will open
Tomorrow afternoon. when addresses Of
welcome will be delivered by promin.
ent Chicago and Illinois m A
symposium On municipal suffrage will
he the feature OF the opening session
and addresses will be- delivered by
Kate NJ. Gordon on Some Experiments
in New Orleans: Annie II. Nichols on
The Ballot for Working Women:
Mrs. Raymind Robin on The Civic
Duty OF Women; and Lila D. Monroe
on Municipal Suffrage In Kansas"
Tomorrow evening Mayor Dunno will
welcome the visitors and the presi.
dents annual address will he delivered
by the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of
Swarthmore. III.
Friday will he the S1th anniversary
of the birth of Susan p. Anthony, The
noted oma suffrage leader who died
on March u last, and the evening scs.
sion on that day will be a public mem.
Orial meeting 1t which tributes will be-
paid to Miss Anthony's memory by the
Rev. Jcnkin Lloyd Jones. Fannie Bar,
rier Williams, Emily Rowland and 9th.
ers,
The Saturday morning session will
he devoted tn the reading Of reports
and In the afternoon the visitors will
b. escorted to Chicago university. Hui
house and other places of interest in
the city. In the evening a reception
will be rendered the delegates by tn
IChicago Woman's club at the clut
rooms in the Fine Arts building.
On Sunday afternoon a public meet
ing will be held In the Studebaker the
alter and addresses will be made BY
the Rev. Robert Bigelow, the notef
pastor of Vine street Congregations
Ichurch at Cincinnati. Miss Jane
Adams. the founder of Hull house. Rah
bi Emil G.. Hirsch and other famous
men and wOmen
Next Monday there will be a sym
postum on Industrial Conditions fo'
Women and Children. " with contribd
tions by Florence Kelley of New York
Graham Romeyn Taylor Of Illinois
!. Mary Mcdowell Of Chicago and Alice
Henry of Australia. At the evening
session the report of the delegates t
! the Copenhagen meeting of the Inter
national Woman Suffrage Alliance viii
be submitted and addresses will b.
made by Louis Post. editor OF the Chi
!. cago Public; Professor Emily Perkin'
of Northwestern university and Mar,
E. C~oggeshall of Iowa.
!, The convention will close next Tues
day with a conference on increase D
membership and speeches by Doroth!
Dix of Louisiana. Caroline Lexow %
New York. Harriet Taylor Upton o
Ohio and closing remarks by the presl
dent. the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
The coming convention will be
a notable n In the history Of tn
woman's rights movement because o
the fact that 1t will mark the adoption
of new tactics on the part OF the lead
ers Of the association. It is stated tina
hereafter all the influence of the OF
ganization will be brought 20 bear o.
the state legislatures, and that the al
tempt to secure an amendment to tn
national constitution will be ~abandone
I for the present. Several reform organ