The Washington herald., 1912-03-24
ARRAY OF ORATORS
TO TALK SUFFRAGE
Programme for wOmen's Meeting
Next Sunday Contains Many
Notable Speakers.

Ten Senators and Representatives will
be among the speakers at the woman
suffrage mass meeting to be held in the
Columbia Theater at s O'Clock Sunday
evening, March 81. The programme for
the meeting was made public last night
by Mrs. C. W. MacNaughton, chairman
OF the committee OF arrangements and
finance.
The mass meeting will be held in the
interest Of the woman suffrage amend
ments to the State constitutions of Wis
consin, Kansas. Oregon. and Ohio. John
Barrett. director general OF the Pan
American Union. VIII serve as temporary
chairman. The invocation will be by Rev.
George +. Dudley. OF ST. stephens
Church. Senator Miles Poindexter. Of
Washington, will preside as chairman.
List of Speakers.
The speakers will be Senator Miles
Poindexter, OF Washington: Senator Reed
Smoot. OF Utah: Senator william E.
Borah. Of Idaho: Senator John d. Works.
OF California: Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby,
Of Oregon; Representative Joseph r.
Knowland. of California; Representative
Frank W. Mondell. OF Wyoming: Mrs.
Edward T. Taylor. OF Colorado; Repre-
sentative Atterson w. Rucker, OF Colo
RNpItStuAullNe WI La II Ol-
Iette, OF Washington: Miss Laura Burle-
son. Of Texas; Representative Joseph
Howell, Of Utah; Representative Burton
]. French, OF Idaho. and Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood.
The honorary vice chaIrmen, who are
all presidents Of district clubs. are Mrs.
lie Droict Barber. OF the State Equal Suf-
frage Association: Mrs. Julia Leavitt,
District Woman Suffrage Association:
L. NJ
Suffrage Club: Miss Elsie Hill, College
Equal Suffrage League: Mrs. Clinton
Smith. president emeritus Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union; Mrs Emma 8.
Shelton. woman's Christian Temperance
Union: Mrs. William f. Andrews, Fed
Grafton OF women's Clubs: Mrs. Char
lotte Emerson Main. Aid Association for
the Blind: Miss Laura l. Graddick,
womans Bindery Union: Mrs. Mary g.
Lockwood. woman's League OF the Ju-
nior Republic, and Mrs. Emily Lee Ra-
gan, women's Clinic.
Members of Committee.
The members Of the advisory commit
tee are Rev. Olympia Brown. president
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association:
Mrs. d. r. Anthony, jr.. Of Kansas: Mrs.
Atlee Pomerene, OF Ohio; Clara Bewick
Colby. OF Oregon; Belva A. lockwood.
of Washington; II. Parker Willis. OF
Washington. and Kepler Hoyt, Of wash
ington.
The patronesses will be Mrs. William
f. Andrews, Mrs. A. l. Barber, Mrs.
lie Droict Barber. Mrs. Alexander Ora
ham Bell. Mrs. Victor Berger, Mrs. A.
s. Burleson, Mrs. julius c. Burrows.
Mrs. Michael Z. Driscoll DR.. Elnora c.
Folkmar, Mrs. David ]. Foster, Helen
Gardener Day. Mrs. John b. Henderson,
Mrs. Katherine GiIlett-Hill. Mrs. Eben
J. Hill. Martha Mitchell Hoyt. Mrs. Car
rie L. Kent. Mrs Joseph r. Knowland,
Mrs. William Ia Toilette, Mary S. Lock-
wood, Mrs. Henry B. F. Macfarland,
Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main. Mrs \
Anson Mills. Mrs. U. @. B. Pierce. Mrs
Miles Poindexter. Miss Janet Richards.
Mrs. o. S. Richey. Mrs. Rufus Saxton. |
Mrs. F. Carl Smith. Mrs. l. B. Sworm- |
stedt, Mrs. Edward T. Taylor. Mrs. |
Helen Rand Tindall. Miss Nettie Lovisa |
White Mrs. Jessie Waite Wright. Mrs. |
John W. Works. and others
The association yesterday answered the |
resolution OF the Interdenominational |
Society. adopted at Its regu- |
lar meeting Friday. in a letter to Mrs |
John Newton Culbertson. president Of
The society. The resolution deplored the
stand taken by the equal suffrage advo-
catcs in scheduling their mass meeting |
Tor a Sunday evening.
1t is pointed out emphatically that the |
late will not be changed, the reason /
given being that three-fourths Of the box /
seats have already been sold for the
occasion.