Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-01
WILL WATCH WOMEN VOTE
Miss ShaE, President Of Suffrage
Association. Goes to Denver.
DEMONSTRATION PLANNED THERE
street Parade 20 he one OF Incidents
Of Her visit 20 View Actual
workings OF Suffrage
Law.

Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. president of
the American Woman Suffrage association,
passed through Omaha Friday afternoon
%enroute to Denver. where she will remain
until after election. Miss Shaw was ac-
companied by Miss Fillmore Rendel and
Miss Ray Costelloe. two young English
women who are taking postgraduate work
at Bryn Mawr college and who assisted
Miss NJ. Carry Thomas, president of Bryn
Mawr in organizing the College Women's
Suffrage league recently as an auxiliary to
the national suffrage association. Both
young women are of prominent Eng lsn
families and i'm company with three other
Oxford students spent las, summer preach
ing and teaching woman suffrage through
the northern provinces Of England. p
1--WE are going out to Denver to see. the
women vote" said Miss Shaw. Miss
Thomas has given the girls leave Of alb
sence that they may have this experience.
and the women of Denver and the men. too,
have planned a lot Of things in our honor.
We are even to have a street parade, I am
told" Miss Shaw participated in the great
demonstration of "s~uffragettes' in London
last spring and is enthusiastic over the
progress of the women abroad.
Press reports of the work and methods
OF the suffragettes are dreadfully dis
torted," she said. The most refined and
most intelligent of England's women are
at the head of this movement. Their inter
ruption of meetings is merely a custom
generally prevalent in England among men,
and the disturbances they are said to have
raised consist merely in their rising in the
meeting and asking of the speaker, What
are you going to do for women just as
men are privileged to rise and ask a candi-
dates position on any important issue. In
their determination and intelligent under
standing OF politics the women abroad and
especially of England are away ahead of
our American women. Seventeen countries
of Europe have granted suffrage In some
form to their women because the women
have demanded 1t and their claims have
been recognized as just. At Geneva at the
convention of the International Council of
Women, a few weeks ago, there was a
unanimous endorsement of woman suffrage
by a body representing women's organiza-
lions of every kind from all parts of the
world. 1t is a significant sign Of the times
in this country that a mems association
has been formed with a big membership
to work for the Acknowledgement of women.
The organization of the College Women's
Suffrage association, with branches in fiji
teen states and all the leading colleges, is
also significant, as is the fact that at our
convention in Buffalo last week 1900 self
supporting women of New York asked for
membership, while a woman friend sent to
the platform a check for 10000 with which
to push the work for the Acknowledgement
of women. Our women all believe in suf-
frage. but they do not all know just how to
classify their opinions
From Denver Miss Shaw and her COM
panions will return to Lincoln to attend
the convention of the Nebraska Suffrage
association, November 5 and 6. The two
young women will address students OF the
state university while there. just as they
did at Chicago university Thursday. En-
gagements at Des Moines and Chicago will
prevent their stopping in Omaha. They
have arranged a street parade for us at
Des Molnes,' said Miss Shaw, and they
gave us one at Boone, Ia. this morning"