Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-20
NET UNDER TEN
STARRED flag
woman's Suffrage Associa-
tiOD Have Added Several
More States
National Meeting Now Being
Held Has q Program Of
Features

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2O.-Elated
over the recent addition of four stars
to their flag, hundreds of delegates to
the forty .fourth annual convention OF
the National American Woman Stuff
rage Association, which meets tomor-
row for a five days session, are here
today preparing to give 1.-The cause
the most notable impetus since the in
ception of the equal franchise mOve-
ment. The women have come from
every section of the country and are
among the leaders in their respective
states. The hotels are filled with
them, and many others Of the dele
gates are being entertained in private
homes.
The program prepared for the gath
ering provides for many novel and at
tractive features. Witherspoon Hall,
where the most of the sessions will
be held, has been handsomely decor
ated for the occasion. The siX-star
flag, conspicuous at the former con-
ventious of the organization, gives way
this year, 10 the ten-star flag, the four
new stars representing the states OF
Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona
which adopted woman suffrage amend
ments at the recent elections.
A fine array Of talent has been OBJ
tanned to address the various meetings,
consisting Ct prominent men and wo-
men vino have become famous for
their devotion and labor along differ
,,t l;p,cD f human onf;yity
The meetings will vary in character
from a great outdoor rally in indie
pendence Square on the opening day
to a thanksgiving service on Sunday
afternoon in the Metropolitan Opera
House. All of the evening sessions
will be open to the public.
At the formal opening of the con-
vention tomorrow night Miss Jane Ad-
dams Of Chicago will preside and the
national president, Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw, will deliver her annual address.
Another feature of the evenings pro.
gram will be addresses from leaders
who aided the cause to victory in Ari-
IONA, Michigan, Oregon and Kansas.
The men enlisted in the equal ouf-
FRANCE cause will have their innings
Friday evening. The session will be in.
the entire charge of the National Mens
League for Woman Suffrage and men
only will appear on the program as
speakers.
The programme for the Saturday
evening session will be conducted en-
tirely by the National College Equal
Suffrage League, of which DR.. M.
Carey Thomas, president of Bryn
Mawr College, is the head. Two de-
batting teams made up of young women
COLLECT students will engage in debate
on the subject of equal suffrage.
A special programme has been pre-
pared for the Independence Square
rally tomorrow. The Original Womens
Declaration of Rights will be read and
Mrs. Charlotte Pierce, the only living
signer, will be present, and be form
ally presented with a bouquet of flow
erS.
The Sunday afternoon thanksgiving
services in the opera house will prob
ably be the largest indoor suffrage
meeting, even held in this country. The
background of the stage will be a huge
world map, showing the progress of
suffrage movement up to date. All the
suffrage territory will be painttd a
bright red. A band of sixty musicians
will furnishslhe music for the meeting.
! Rev. Anna Howard Shaw will preside
and among the speakers will be Miss
Jane Adams, and Miss Julia Lathrop
the latter thcsnewly appointed head OF
the Chjldrens' Bureau.
A mass OF outline work will be dis.
posed Of at the daily business sessions