Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-13
TELL OF WINNING
SUFFRAGE FIGHT
J. H. BraIy and Mrs. Edison Re-
turn from Republican Con-
vention in San Francisco
PRAISE SOUTHERN DELEGATES
Declare Victory for Votes for
Women Amendment to Con-
Stitution Assured
PRAISE SOUTHERN DELEGATES

j. II. Braly, president of the Cali
fornia Political Equality league, and
Mrs. Charles Farwell Edison, assistant
chairman of the organization commit
tee of the same association, returned
yesterday morning from San Fran
cisco.
These two enthusiastic exponents of
votes for women returned with vic
tory crowning their standard and the
delighted realization that much credit
for the splendid work of the conven-
ton was entirely due to the efforts
of the Los Angeles county delegation
Mrs. Edison in speaking of the brief
campaign she had participated in
said:
1--WE went to San Francisco in great
haste when Mr.. Braly heard that
the original platform introduced be-
fore the convention had been returned
without the woman suffrage plank,
which was introduced into the Los
Angeles county platform. We found
that the men who had voted to leave
this out had done so believing that
there was no actual active desire upon
the part of the women in the state
to have the privilege Of suffrage.
1.-THE Los Angeles delegation worked
hard for the plank, and l want to say
right here that any citizen of this city
would have been overwhelmed with
pride to see the splendid type of citi-
zens who were there. The men were
thoroughly progressive and offered no
possible objection to the plank when
assured that there was an actual de-
mand for the resolution.
NORTHERN WORKERS
Among the other women who were
prominent with Mrs. Edison in urging
the need of this plank we're Mrs. Lii
liam Harris Coffin and Mrs. Gerber
ding of San Francisco. They were in
attendance at every meeting of the
convention prepared to argue theiE
point If 1t proved necessary, but the
plank was inserted with absolutely no
opposition from the platform COM
mittee.
when the clause was read into the
platform there was enthusiastic ap-
plause, and as that subslded a men,
ber of the San Francisco delegation
rose and moved that there be three
cheers for woman suffrage which
were Immediately given with much
zest.
Los Angeles county delegates were
certainly responsible not only for the
woman suffrage plank, but the entire
progressive platform that was adopt
ed. believe II was one of the epoch
making conventions in the history OF
California, and Meyer Lissner, e. A.
Dixon and Marshall Stimson were
responsible for 1t. The entire Los An
geles delegation plus such men as
Chester N. Rowell of Fresno. Harris
Weinstock of San Francisco, Robert
Devlin and Charles D. Blaney Of San
ia Clara county were instrumental in
accomplishing the major portion OF
the success of the convention"
WHAT BRALY SAYS
Mr.. Braly, when asked about the
present situation, said:
.'The south is solid for woman suf-
frage. 1 don't say that every candi-
date is, at the present time, fully
committed to the emancipation of
women, but do believe that every
gentleman who is candidate for
election to either branch of the legis-
lature will feel it both a privilege and
a duty to submit the constitutional
amendment to the electors of the
state"
Mr.. Braly was a delegate to the
state convention, where he went that
he might follow up the good work
done by the Los Angeles county con-
vention. He was one of the seventeen
men who constituted the platform
committee, and said yesterday after
noon at the league headquarters in
the Story building 1T was delighted
at the hearty reception the plank re-
ceived from the San Francisco delega-
tion. and L have returned home much
encouraged over the outlook"
Asked about the situation in the
other political parties of the state,
Mr.. Braly said:
1.-THE Democratic party failed to in
sert the suffrage clause in its plat
form, but I have been told by intlu-
entail Democrats that the plank is
really in because of the adoption of
the state platform of 1906, which con-
tanned the Endorsement of suffrage. I
feel no apprehension about the stand
the Democrats will take in this
matter"