Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-16
OVATION BY AUDIENCE
GIVEN MISS adams
Advocates of Votes for Women
Greeted by Immense Gath
ering at BeIasco Theater.

With senators and representatives on
the stage Miss Jane Adams of Chicago
and other leaders Of the National Coun-
ell of Women Voters last night were APP
plauded by men and women who packed
the Belasco Theater to it's doors when
the speakers made stirring appeals for the
extension of the suffrage to women in all
the states in the United States.
All of the speakers were woman voters
and they spoke on woman suffrage from
the viewpoint of women who think it has
proved success in their states.
Miss Adams, Miss Mary Mcdowell and
Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubs, three of the
speakers, were from Illinois, where the
ballot was only recently given to women
Mrs. Emma Smith DcVoe was from
Washington state. and Miss Helen Todd
was from California
Miss Adams was paid high compli-
ment by the large audience. When she
rose to make the last address of the even
ing the senators and representatives on
the stage rose together to honor her.
and the rest of the audience quickly fol-
lowed suit.
Many of the women present waved
handkerchiefs and it was several minutes
before the applause subsidized long enough
for her to speak.
Many Congressman Present.
On the stage were Senators Poindexter
and Jones of Washington. Brady of
Idaho, Shafroth of Colorado. Smoot Of
Utah, Crawford of South Dakota, Ken
yon Of Iowa, Representatives Kent of
California, Raker of California. Church.
stevens and Bell of California, French
of Idaho. Stone of Illinois, Bryan and
Johnson of Washington and Mondell Of
Wyoming. In the audience were several
moro members of both houses of Con-
gress-
Miss Adams. speaking from the stand
poin1 of social worker of long expert
encet told Of the suffrage cause as world
movement for better social conditions.
She fold Of the recent international suf-
fragt congress at Budapest, and Of the
definite achievements of the women from
countries with woman suffrage. She said
that the movement always spreads, and
pointed to the fact that after one state
gets it neighborinS states soon follow
suit.
When women see their social causes
about to be turned over TO government
officials" she said, they naturally in
s;St upon an opportunity to help select
the men who are about to become the
protagoniSts Of their most cherished re-
FORMS
Women Should Be Consulted.
She declared that since social matters
have begun to be taken UP by the GOV
eminent 1t is inevitable that women
should be consulted. She said it is far
more womanly for them TO give their
opinions directly through the ballot than
in a roundabout way by petition and in
direct influence.
Miss Adams said that giving the bal
lot to women does not make them un-
womanly. She told Of having spoken with
a woman mayor in England, with woman
members of European parliaments. The
woman mayor. she said. was just an
ordinary woman. who could sew and
darn like other women. Voting does not
any more than they would be taken in
the natural course Of events.
Miss Adams touched on the fact that
she and Otner women had taken part in
the presidential campaign last year. She
said that it was only natural when move
mcnts for which women have been work
ing for years are taken over as the poll
cies Of a political party that the women
should follow the movements to make
certain that they arc carried out cor
rectly.
Miss Mcdowell, who is head of a set
tlement in the stOckyards district of Chi
cago, told of the changed attitude of city
officials in Chicago since the women We're
for nineteen years to get a sewerage re-
duction plant in Chicago, but that she
got no action until a few weeks ago,
when Illinois women got the vote.
Tells of Child Labor Conditions.
Miss Helen Todd. who said she had
been a factory inspector in Illinois be-
fore going to California to help in the
campaign there, told of child labor con-
ditions, which, she said. women naturally
vote against.
Speaking of the vote on suffrage in
California. she declared that always the
rich and the very poor banded together
to oppose suffrage.
The Ordinary people who believe i'm
women We're the ones who carried suf-
frage in California, she said.
Mrs. Stubs made short speech ask
ing for contributions to the cause.
About $1,JOo was given and pledged dur
ing a few minutes
The meeting last night brought to q
close the first conference of the National
Council of Women Voters. The next
meeting will be held in San Francisco in
1918.