New-York tribune., 1911-09-24
SUFFRAGE JUBILEE
Less agreeable Business UW
FOllOzc RejMCingS.

For forty-three wears the National Woman
Suffrage Association has been meeting III
convention. For forty-three years the dele
gates to these conventions have argued
discussed, hoped, despaired and planned.
but now the time is coming when they can
rejoce. With the women Of five states OF
! the Union possessing the fun FRANCHISE anu
with the question TO be submitted by legls-
lative enactment to the people OF hVe other
states. the association feels that it's JUS
! titled in including a Jubilee night III the
/ programme for the convention, which meets
| in Louisville on October 10. Jubilee night
Will be on Friday, the second night OF the
convention, and plenty of women speakers
| from the enfranchised states will be there
, TO make the jubilee the real thing
1t is a good idea to put the jubilee early
in the convention, for after disposing OF
the ticklish urestions which are due to DE
thrashed out the delegates may not feel
, quite as harmonious as fellow jubilee man
ers ought to be. That old bone OF conteh-
tion. the question Of state rights, Is com
ing rather prominently before the organi-
zation through the action OF southern
club which wants to join the natioral body
without being affiliated with the state Ihe
conservatives wish to maintain the autoc-
racy OF the state. The progressives wave
the constitution and urge the open door
There are, they say. many kinds Of suf-
fraee societies and IT would be extremely
foolish to declare that they shall enter only
BY the pathway Of the state. Unquestion-
ably there will be hot fight over this at
Louisville Another matter to be dis
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headouarters be moved to some other
city?"
New York Is the centre OF things" says
one faction.
New York isn't the centre OF the coun-
try" says the other faction. Some OF MS
have to travel too far to attend conven-
tions"
The matter OF distances to be travelled
figures in a third problem-that OF the com
plexion OF the board OF officers. Things
have TO be decided In rush sometimes
and board founded on the sectional rep
resentation idea is rather an impractical
body The convention probably Will settle
| this by naming board the members OF
! which live reasonably close together and
appointing an advisory council-made up OF
the presidents OF all the associated bodies
/ to meet about the time OF the annual
convention.
II is rather a full programme that awaits
/ the attention Of the delegates TO the forty
/ third annual convention Besides all the
! business and discussion and reading Of re-
ports. which will fill every day TIL october
! a. when the convention ends, there is
| long LIST Of sneakers who will be heard In
tho evenings Mrs Emmelne Pankhurst.
| fresh from England, is to talk, and so are
DIR. Harvey W. Wiley, chief OF the Bureau
Of Chemistry Of the national Department OF
Agriculture. Miss Jane Adams. OF HUH
House. Miss Harriet May Mills and Mrs.
Ernest THOMPSON Seton, wife Of the nat
,uralist. and a writer herself
This Is not the first time that the conven-
t,on has been held in the South. but never
before have Southern women been so
urominent as they will be this year the
lnopular mind is not likely 10 think OF
Southern women as caring much about re-
forms or about hard work. but the women
from that locality who will speak at the
convention have a pretty good record In
lb,tb For instance. one Of them Is Mrs
iUesha Breckenridge. and any one who
thinks that Southern women can't work
had better look up Mrs. Breckinridge's his
tory as a toler in the cause Of education
In that state Miss Mary Johnston. the
novelist IS a Virginian. and she Is down on
the programme for speech. Or. NJ. Carey
Thomas president Of Bryn Mawr college
was born in Baltimore. She wiz presslde
| over ''colIege night" at the convention.
Miss Sophronisba Breckenridge, dean OF
women at the Chicago University, VIII go
| back to her native state when she goes To
| gpeak at the Louisville convention. The
! Southern woman Is coming TO the front III
! suffrage. as she has already In education.
/ literature and art.
The Rev Or Anna n. Shaw will preside
! over the convention and IT is expected that
! she will be reelected.