Evening journal., 1912-11-07
SUFFRAGE
CONVENTION
"VOte for Women OrGaniza-
ton to Meet in Philadelphia
This Month

The forty-fourth convention OF the
National Woman Suffrage Association
will be held in Philadelphia Novem-
Der p to 26. Delaware suifragists
have received copies of the following
call to the convention:
The call follows:
We hereby send on across This
great continent, east and west north
and south, a call TO YOU, who have
SO long been our comrades in the cru
SADIE for human progress and for
women's freedom.
We send call TO YOU also, YOU
thousands who are just coming for
ward to Join us. YOU VINO are 10 be
our comrades in the great future be-
fore us. Come and realize the inspir-
alton that sustains the common advo-
cacy OF great Cause; the exhilara-
ton of soul that rises in everyone
who is part of great united effort.
No suffragist can remain unmoved
by The tide of enthusiasm which will
carry this convention along when we
come in November with hearts beat
ing high with victory. Failure is
impossible" and even temporary de-
fcats become less and less frequent.
This will be triumphant convention.
If from any campaign State you can
not come in triumph, you will come
with unconquerable determination
and undiminished zeal to tell of a
new campaign. The corrupt interests
and politicians must learn that We
cannot be defeated. that their temper
airy advantage over equal suffrage rs
petty. uneconomic and futile.
This convention has big problems
confronting it, interesting, sumulat-
ing problems coincident with the ire
mendous expansion of our movement,
problems worthy the indomitable met
tie of suffrage workers But in spite
OF hard work, this week will be a
I gala week, a compensation to yon
for all the hard, dull, gray work dur
ing the past year and a stimulus for
sin harder work during the year TO
come
Come and hear how your great Ma
tional Suffrage Organization, sensi-
tive to the laws of demand and sup
ply IN the suffrage world. has evolv-
cd an important suffrage publication
centre; how with its ear ever bent to
catch the first football of Liberty
around the whole earth, the National
Press Bureau has received and dis
seminated wonderful volumes Of
news relative TO the freedom and adj
Yancement of womenkind.
Come and listen to your fellow
workers, and listening and sympa-
thizing with the unselfsh labor being
carried on everywhere. pledge your
self 70 a flaming loyalty to suffrage
and suffragists that viii burn away
all dross of dissension, all barriers to
united effort
Let us come with high resolve that
we shall never waver in our effort to
obtain the right to stand side by side
with the men of this country in the
mortal struggle that shall bid perish
from this land political corruption,
privilege, prostitution, the industrial
] slavery of men. women and children,
and all exploitation Of humanity.
Let us come together. then. in this
autumn of 1912. this unprecedented
! year of suffrage In the United States.
/ cOnsecrating ourselves anew on this
the greatest of all battle grounds for
democracy, the United States OF
America
Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Adams,
Sophonisba Breckenridge. Mary Ware
bennett Susan w. Fitzgerald Jessie
Ashley, Katherine Dexter Mccormick.
Harriet Burton Laidlaw. Alice Stone
Blackwell General officers of the n
A. w. S. A.