The San Francisco call., 1910-10-01

cdtondl committee.
vention. Mrs. Coffin has said she will
accept no state Office this year.
The most soothing influence at work
in the convention it is declared by
those in the heart of things. is the
recent adoption of a suffrage plank by
the republican party of this state. SO
overjoyed are all true suffrage work
ers, both conservative and radical. at
this signal step forward that minor
differences and the question of who
really secured the victory are for the
moment almost forgotten.
Miss Madeleine Frances Wills will be
the first vice president, it is confidently
prophesied. but the rest of the ticket
has not been sufficiently settled to be
positively stated as yet.
The convention, presided over by
Mrs. Watson, opened at $50 o'clock
yesterday morning with an invocation
by Rev. William Kirk Guthrie. Two
minute reports were heard from the
following officers: President, Mrs. Wat
son: recording secretary. Mrs. Jennie
V. Mclean; corresponding secretary,
Mrs Francesca Pierce; treasurer, Mrs
Mary T. Gamage; auditors, Mrs. Alice
L Park and Mrs Helen Moore. These
all showed a fourishing condition of
affairs. the treasury having a surplus
of more than 5000 at the present time.
Reports of the following standing
committees were heard: Press. Mrs
Mabel Craft Deering; literature and
printing Mrs. Alice L. Park; education,
Miss Kate Ames; organization, Mrs
Helen Moore. and state central commit
tee. Mrs Lillian Harris Coffin.
Miss Ames declared that the control
of schools has been in the hands of men
alone and the viewpoint is limited to his
special needs and is therefore partial;
and that educational and economic. con-
ditions are such that the finest type of
men no longer prepare for school work
and women who naturally seek teach
ing. are finding that the removal of
opportunity and the limitations of re-
sponsibility drive the finest to other
occupations.
HISTORY Is TRACED
Mrs. Coffin in her report traced the
history of the state central committee,
which is the legislative committee, from
its appointment, through the convention
al Santa Cruz. the convention at Stock
TON and at Oakland. with nine weeks
soiourn at Sacramento when the legls-
lat1Ire was visited daily. There, Mrs.
Cof1n said. the rotten political methods
of the men were observed and used
since for the downfall of the originators
of these methods themselves.
The recent Endorsement by the re
publican convention. Mrs. Coffin said,
She regarded as the elimination OF all
the work of her committee.
+ She. declared that this convention is
her swan song. as she will now
retire from active part in the state
suffrage movement and will devote her
efforts to reform politics or the IN
surgent movement in TINS state; =,
The presidents address; which FOL
lowed these reports was filled with en-
coura ging and cheering ideas as TO the
state of political equality and the tu-
ture is filled with promise, she de-
clared.
she said that to her the great insurg-
encv movement in politics which has
szrent over the country she regarded
as the most hopeful measure for the
great cause of suffrage, and she COM
nlin7ented Mrs Cofhn's political meth
DDS.
San Francisco. she warned her hear
ers required much attention from them,
as If is the stronghold of the enemy.
Reports were heard from a number
Of the clubs of the state, all telling or
progress
SYMPATHY Is EXPRESSED
At the afternoon session the trades
union label league, through its repre-
sentative Mrs. Hannah Nolan, eX-
pressed sympathy with the movement.
as did the State grange, through Mrs.
A r. Willis and the 'Chlld's welfare
league. Mrs H Otis Brunx sending an
original poem on this.
G Augustus Turner of New Zealand
told of the ideal conditions prevailing
under practical governms in his coun-
try; Charles Montgomer. president of
the California prison commission, told
of his work; Seward Simons of Los: An
geles told of the formation of the
political equality league of men and
women in his city, and among other
speakers were Miss Agnes Howe of the
San Jose state normal school and Miss
Genevieve- Cook of the nurses, asso-
citation.
The credentials committee, of which
Mrs. Frances Rosebrook is chairman
reported that 10 clubs, with total
membership of 922, were represented
by IS delegates.
The committee resolutions ap-
pointed consisted of ]. II. Braly OF Los
Angeles. Mrs. Adelaide Ballard of Chico
and Mrs. John Shook of Berkeley
At the evening session, in addition to
]. H Braly of Los Angeles and j. Stitt
Wilson, the speakers were Simeon
Pease Meads, nominee of the prohibi-
ton party for governor and Thomas
z Hayden, democratic candidate for
congress. All of the speakers ex-
pressed their strong sympathy with
equal suffrage and pledged themselves
as workers in its behalf.
The convention will reconvene at 9:3Ol
o'clock this morning.