The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-03
SUFFRAGE NOTES

Insurgents, led by Miss Lucy Stone
Blackwell of Boston and Mrs. Ida Por.
ter-Boyer of Pennsylvania in. the Ma
ttonal American Woman Suffrage asso-
citation, rave the Shaw-Thomas admin
~lstratton forces the greatest battle in
the history of woman politics and came
near smashing che administration slate
for two of the places on the national
executive board. DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw was elected president by a great
ly reduced majority, receiving 291 out
Of a total of BAG votes cast, while about
100 other delegates, who were not vot.
ing against her, manifested their in
surgency by refusing to vote for her.
Immediately after they Joined in giving
the full vote of the convention, 442, to
Miss Jane Addams of Hull house, Chi
cago, for first vice president. Insur-
gents gave Miss Lucy Stone Blackwell,
the veteran editor of The Woman's
Journal, 1876 votes for. second vice
president, and Charlotte Anita Whit"
ney, head of the collegiate women of
California, 210 votes. The next best
showing of the insurgents was 159
votes for Ida Porter-Boyer of Pennsyl-
vania for corresponding secretary.
against 239 for Ware bennett. of New
York, slated to succeed herself. The
fnsurgent combination also gave to
Elizabeth King, Ellicott of Maryland
Ill votes in the fight they put UP
against the recording secretary, Susan
w. Fitzgerald of Boston. The latter
got 299 votes and was declared elected.
MRS. Jesse ASnleE1 former treasurer,
lecturer in the New York Law school
and wife of the dean of the school,
withdrew altogether, and did not run
for recollection. The attack made upon
her as a socialist for placing Ettor-
Giovannttti stickers on woman suffrage
literature sent out from headquarters,
made her election, in the opinion of
her friends, impossible, and she had to
slate makers. President Shaw had
repudiated the socialistic stickers,
which, with the grounds of assault, had
imperiled the administration ticket. To
succeed Treasurer Ashley, the almost
unanimous vote of the convention was
given to Mrs. Stanley Mccormick For
the remaining Offices of first and Sec
ond auditor the contests were not so
significant. Mrs. Marriet Burton Lade-
law and Mrs. Joseph p. Bowen were
elected. The entirely successful ticket
for the governing national board OF
officers of the association for the ensu-
ing year was slated under the general
ship of NJ. Carey Thomas, president of
Bryn Mawr college, delegate of the
collegiate alumnae to whom the victory
was credited. -.
The suffragists go a black eye
figuratively speaking at the bye-elec-
ton in the Bow and Bromley division
of Tower Hamlets in London, when
George Lansbury, lahorite n suffra-
gist, was defeated by Reginald Blair,
~unionist, the vote standing 4,042 to
1921. At the last election Mr.. Lansing
received 4,315 votes as against 3,452
cast for his u~nionist opponent. Recently
Mr.. Lansbury decided to resign and
seek reelection as q suffragist pure
and simple. The militant suffragists
waged a vigorous campaign in his be-
half, declaring that he was the only
ma entitled to the respect and confer
| ence OF women Just what attitude
Mr.. Lansbury's former labor and social
list supporters as well as the liberals
| would take was the great question,
The result is the loss of a seat for the
Observation-Disclosures coalition In
the house of commons.