The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-04-14
Unlike English SufrageneS
Their Methods Are ALI
Peaceful.
DOCTOR ANNA SHAW
WIELDS THE GAVEL
Many Women With Reputation In
Professions Among
Delegates.
By sELEyE ARMSTRONG.

Question: When is a suffragist not a
sunragette2
Answer; When she uses moral sussIon
and petitions. instead Of hatpins. clubS
knives. and something ike q coIlegb
/ yell, to obtain the ballot
The suffrsgis is here She Is also ar
irving hourly. and viii continue 70 ar
rive throughout the entire week Ia
fact, the Nations Capital is stornaed b.
an army OF woman sunragists. and the
mere man who doesn't believe Fl won
ems rights may as well surrender at
once
The American suHragist IS tust as de-
termined as her English sister, the mill
tant suffragette. although her methods
are Hlilder- she IS coming TO the cor
venti9n OF the National American Won
an Suffrage Association here this week
from the remOtest corners Of the exten-
sive area known as the United States
Of America, and her head IS set on get
ting 10 the polls
Faces Show Determination
She alights from every incoming train,
with that determined look on her face
and with petitions 20 Congress buIgin-
out OF her travelling bag. She may look
ever 50 innocent-young, smiling and
well gOwned-but she wants to vote Just
the same or, perhaps, she is neither
young nor suliling-OnIv determined
She can wither the strongest man uith
a glance, for she knows that ne IS mere
" an incident in the general scheme OF
things. It Is woman she believes. who
IS going 20 puffy the ballot and save
the state and ration
When the opening session Of the forty
second annual congress OF the Satio1aI
American Woman Suffrage Association
was called 10 order BY the president,
DR.. Anna Howard shaw, this afternoon
at the Arlington. a glance at the aud
ienCe revealed the presence OF scores
OF women famous a. pariiamentaTians.
writers. doctors. teachers, and preach
ers. and Of scores Of others who are
nothing more nor - than good wives.
mothers-and suhrasis5s.
London woman to Speak
one OF the younger women prominent
IN the movement both IN America and
England, IS Miss Ray Costello. Of Lon
don, who viii De smong the speakers
on the program this week. She belongs
to the organization Of Mrs. Henri
Fawcett, Of England. and IS a co-work-
er OF Mrs Philip SnOwden. who is well
known here She is also a sChoOlmate
and friend Of Miss Inez Milholland, the
whose arrest there during their recent
shirt waist strike caused sensation
Miss Costello Is absolutely firm in her
convictions, and the friVolltleS dear 70
the hearts Of most girls cannot sWerve
her from her devotion TO the cause OF
suffrage
Honestly. now. would you really:
down IN your inmost heart, rather spend
your time getting the ballot than getting
pretty things to wear, end going 10 par
ties. and then getting married Ike other
40
tally by q frivolous interviewer Miss
CostenO's big blue eyes opened wider IN
mild surprise
Whole Family on Stump
why. I'd rather be a suffrasist than
anything in the vhCIe world" she re-
piled. MY mother and father. my
grandmother, my 80 sisters. ard
brother are al stu = speaking in EnE-
land for the cause Of sUfraes. There
haz been an epidemic Of IL in our family
for years I think the methods OF the
American women ara quite remarkable.
and since my visit TO this country last
year, when I Travelled with Dr. Anna
shaw, can see a wonderful growth in
the movement
Miss Costello declares that England is
already converted to woman suffrage,
are that it viii require only some po-
litical eXigency to prevent its being OBJ
tained by the women OF England She
I belongs 70 that faction OF English
wo-Sen who call themselves suffrasistss
! aid to whom nothing worse ever hap
pens than mud singing and rock throw
inz-, while IL Is left for the militant SUI
fragette TO be dubbed by policemen.
thrown out of the house Of commons,
and imprisoned
Dorothy Dix" Talks.
Dorothy Dix" one Of the vel known
newspaper writers for women in Amer
ica. is a witty and saUcy suffragist.
whose talk on The Real Reason Why
I Women Cannot Vote VIII be one Of
the breezy features Of the convention
When asked for a sketch CT herself she
replied in her iuiuitable way
My name Is Elizabeth MsriwetHer
| Cflmer. Apart from that fact. mine
/ are the simple and tedious annals or
/ me u7cr. There was never anything to
/ account for II. for not one OF my for
I hears even wrote : letter 20 the conn
/ Try paper at my krlhood nome ana
/ si9nsd IN Verft2S VoN PopuT. o. Old
SSf7FScrfler but Just the sane I was
/ born with an fncurable hanEering for
printers ink
written for them except the truth. and
! good hard. common sense They had
/ been told they were angels EDo they
knew they were not They had been
I told they must suffer and Be stronE.
and they were tired OF having the mar
/ tyr role thrust upon them They had
I been fed on poetry ard sentimentalism
until their digeStiOns reEOlted At ang
more candy, and 50 decided to hand
them q few hard facts, and a little
gumption. Of course. when you start
out to tell the truth, the first jump
/ lands YOU IN the midst Of woman suf-