The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-11
SUFFRAGE NEWS
 FROM SEVERAL QUARTERS

The veritable hotbed of feminine suf- fragsm in the east this summer has
 been Newport, where society, and es- pecially are eastern society women con-
 cerned as to votes for women, has fore
 gathered New York society has, in fact.
 practically changed it's residence from the
 metropolis to Newport. Narragansett has
 also been very gay but the season there
 is on the wane, and in Newport the chief
 topic has been votes for women.'
 In the same auditorium on Easton
 beach where Mrs. Belmont's guests
 danced a few nights later, one interested
 in the local suffrage league witnessed q
 characteristic suffrage meeting a fortnight ago. It was a mammoth gathering, and society people sat side by side with eX-
 cursionists from Providence who were glad to pay 10 cents Ito see the run. On the platform were Mrs. Alice Duer Miller, the author, and Mrs Stanley Me Cormack of Chicago, women of the same height and in their graceful gowns sug- gestive of Dewing's ladies, who are so well bred and sinuous in every picture
 he paints Unlike the other Newport women they wore no hats. Miss Edythe Deacon sat in the first TOW below the stage, a smart. attractive society girl in white gown and holding a basket which
 she later passed for contributions. Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Mrs Paul Andrews and other women of importance sat near her. Miss 1 lnez Milholland the clever young orator who proposes e house to house suffrage ! canvass in Newport, sold buttons to eX- 1 oursionists pleased with her rosy cheeks and her smile, but with a scant idea as
 to why every body had crowded into the
 hall. The band played and some of the excursion babies cried, but everybody
 clapped even when remarks a bit too ab-
 struse for the Rhode Island working folk, were made.
 A Birmingham member of the Equal Suffrage association told yesterday of her attendance upon meeting of the Chau- tauqua Equal Suffrage association during the summer spent in Chautauqua. It was immensely interesting she said,
 largely because of so many states be- ing represented. Women were there from California OhiO New Mexico, Ohio, h. diana, Texas. New York, Illinois Pennsy- vania and Alabama. II savored somewhat of an experience meeting, and naturally the most interest centered about the
 women from those states in which cam paigns are now being conducted. Ohio was then, of course, of the utmost n.l- portance, being the most eastern state in which the amendment to th4 state con
 stitution was to he submitted. It was coi1- , coded that If the ono women Balneu lHS franchise it would wonderfully help the
 New York women in their fight and give
 an impetus to the movement in the south as well as east. It was delightful to lis- l ten to some of those clever Ohio workers ! tell of their experiences and of the or
 sanized opposition. They were quite san guine of success, but it is the same old story-all sorts of organized vice being i in the field with plenty of money to spend defeating the amendment because they
 feared the womans vote l gathered much
 inspiration at Chautauqua through hear
 ing so much suffrage talk. 1ie foremost thinkers of the world are brought there, | and most without exception they are for
 woman suffrage. No matter what their
 lecture subject they interpolate a bit of
 woman suffrage Mrs. Ida Husted Har- per was there for a week lecturiug every day on some phase of it. and Dr. Edward
 Howard Griges. who gave a course on 1 The Philosophy of Plato (taking the 1 Republic" as a foundation of discuss sion), had occasion to say quite d lot about woman suffrage. You know he has
 splendid lecture which he often gives
 on suffrage, the keynote Of which is tine
 benefit that enfranchisement will be to
 the women themselves in that 1t will de-
 velop judgment a spirit of fair play, a broader r-min6cdness and bigger more