The San Francisco call., 1909-07-04
DELEGATION
DEPRIVED OF VOTE
Suffrage Convention Unseats
Washington Members After
Acrid Debate

SEATTLE, July 3.-The fight between
the factions of the Washington Equal
Suffrage association was discussed on
the floor of the national woman suf-
frage convention this afternoon and
the convention decided unanimously TO
,,nseat ALI the Washington delegates.
The national executive committee 10
whom the Spokane delegates unseated
bv the state convention appealed, tried
for three days to effect a compromise
between the factions, and, falling re-
ferred the contest to the national con-
vention.
DEPRIVED OF VOTING
The question came up in the form OF
motion of Miss Alice stone Blackwell
of Boston that the convention Is not
satisfied with the credentials OF the
washington delegates, and withdraWs 5
from them the privilege of voting, but
grants them the other privileges OF
delegates
In the debate on the motion each SIDE
was allotted Is minutes. d. c Coates
of Snokane formerly lieutenant gov
ernor of Colorado. stated the case for
the unseated delegates to the state
convention and Mrs. Emma Smith de
Voc president of the state association,
made no argument except that the ma
tionaI convention was without au-
thority to pass on the acts or the
washington association.
..MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS"
Another Washington delegate de-
clared that the national convention
should mind its own business and said
that suffrage had been lost in oregon
through its interference
National President Anna NJ. Shaw
broke into the debate to say that the
national body had jurisdiction and 10
protest hotly against insults offered by
those who denied such jurisdiction.
The vote that unseated all the COM
batants was then taken. The state of
washington now has no vote in the
convention and the regulars are in
control of the state organization, but
under censure by the national body
MILLION SIGNATURES
The convention devoted the morning
to the reading and discussion of re-
ports. Mrs Rachel Foster Avery, who
has directed the obtaining of a million
signatures TO a petition to congress
asking for a submission of a sixteenth
amendment enabling women to vote.
reported her work nearly completed.
The report of the committee on legisla-
ton for civic rights was submitted by
Chairman Lucretia Blankenburg. A
conference of methods Of work was
held for interchange of views.
Mrs. Mary f. Craigie of New York. in
her report as chairman of the com
mittee on church work. spoke of the
courtesy and kindness she had received
from clergymen- She said:
CHURCH AND SUFFRAGE
.erhere are two reasons why clergy
men should support the woman suf-
frage movement. First, because it is
Just and right and in accordance with
the golden rule, and second because it
would augment the power of the
churches to have an enfranchised
womanhood to aid in carrying on the
warfare against the liquor traffic, the
white slave traffic, child labor, impure
food and many other existing evils that
depend upon legislative enactment that
now is being waged with only third
the power of the churches"
ATTITUDE OF PRESS
At the afternoon session the report
of the press committee which was read
showed a growing interest in suffrage
by the leading daily papers and maga-
zines. The report dwelt with salts
faction on the surrender of the manag-
ing editor of "one of the largest Ohio
dailies." who. once vowing that he
would never print an editorial favor
able to woman suffrage, was doing that
very thing, explaining that, while his
own views were unaltered, the public
mind had changed.