The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-28
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march. The eastern and southern dele
gates who reached Chicago last week
were banqueted by the Chicago wom-
ans club, and a delightful suffrage
breakfast" was provided by the Minne-
apolis Suffrage club during the wait
at st. Paul
At Spokane this evening the Spo-
kane Chamber of Commerce and the
Spokane Suffrage club will join III
rendering the national officers an
elaborate banquet at the Hall of Dog
es, Davsnport's, and on the following
day. at Tacoma, the Tacoma Suffrage
club will entertain the delegates
on Wednesday evening the Seattle
suffragists will give reception in hon
of of the National" and will be host
esses at daylight dinner, spread at
the exposition grounds on Woman Suf-
frage Day, July T.
| The mayor and the Commercial club
of Anacortes have sent a cordial invita-
| ton to the delegation to visit that CITY
before the members leave the state.
and other Sound cities have sent SINH
lar requests. 1t is a far cry from the
rude experiences of Susan b. Anthony
and Lucy Stone to the baqnuets and
flowers and special trains of the pres
ent day.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
and the pending constitutional amend
ment granting suffrage to women,
which was submitted by the legisla-
ture last winter, have attracted many
delegates from the eastern States.
man on the hame team got hit yes
Pennsylvania sends the national presi-
dent, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. one of
the most gifted orators on the platform
today, and the first vice-president,
Rachael Foster Avery, for years Sec
rotary of the National" and now Sec
rotary of the International Suffrage
Alliance. Dr. M. Carey Thomas, presi-
dent of Bryn Mawr and president of
the National Council of the College
Suffrage league will accompany this
delegation From New Jersey comes
DR.. Mary d. Hussey and Mrs Clara
Laddey, state president
New York sends large delegation,
including Charlotte Perkins Gilman the
famous author and lecturer and Flor
ence Kelly, who is secretary of
the National Consumers league is
prominently identified with the Ma
tionai Child Labor league. Mrs. Kelly
Illinois
With the New York delegation will
come it's president, Mrs Ella Hawley
Crossett and Mrs Carrie Chapman
Gait, president of the International
Suffrage alliance Mrs. Gait was the
first woman reporter of San Francis
co, and is we'll known in Seattle, as
this city was her residence at the time
of her marriage. She is a charter
member of the Century club of this
city
Other notable New York delegates
are Mrs. Henry Willard, widow Of the
builder Of the Northern Pacific rail-
way, and Miss Caroline Lexow.
The New England delegation will in
clude Mrs. Fannie J. Fernald, presi-
dent of the Maine association, and the
editor of The Woman Journal; Alice
Stone Blackwell, the daughter of Lucy
Stone, and her father. Henry B.
cradle was sold because her mother
was deprived of a vote, has for years
been recording secretary of the ma
tionals."
From Ohio comes the national treas
urer, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, and
Mrs Pauline Steinem, president of the
state association and member of the
Toledo board of education. From the
south comes Dorothy Dix and Laura
Clay, of Lexington, KY, first auditor,
and the heroine of a famous southern
novel; She is daughter of Cassius M.
Clay. Mainly through her efforts,
Kentucky colleges have been opened
to women, and as late as 1890 she Sc
cured the passage of a bill giving mar
ried women the right to their own wag-
es.
Kate Gordon, corresponding secre-
tary of the National" and chairman
of the program committee, is also from
the south For her is claimed the
unique distinction Of having cast 300
legal votes in one day, proxy votes of
tax-paying women of New Orleans,
who at the first election in which they
participated voted to tax themselves