The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-31
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY
SUFFRAGE NOTES

The Minnesota Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION is converting this week IN
Minneapolis. Many interesting meet
ings have been held. The ST. PauA
Dispatch gives the following account
of yesterdays meeting:
Socialistic proclivities were ruled out
of order at the opening session OF 5ine
Minnesota Woman Suffrage assocla
ton convention at the Y. w. =. A.
yesterday. ~.
An attempt was made by Mrs. An
nah Finsterbach of Minneapolis to q
vocate the organization of a Womans
socialist club to affiliate with the suf-
frage organizations of the state, bug
Mrs. P. L. De Voist, the president
made the ruling. Mrs. Finsterpach
asked for time to explain her motive,
saying that the men and women In the
socialist party had not equal rights,
and it was her idea to strengthen
both suffrage and socialism by organ
Using the club to work for Suffrage.
The meeting, however, refused 10 IFS
ten.
"Woman's contribution to civiliza-
| ton is the home, therefore 1T is her
| right to have power to protect 1t" said
Sen. Helen Ring Robinson of Colo
RADIO, the principal speaker at a lunch-
con given for the convention delegates
and visitors by the Womans welfare
league Of st. Paul in the Ordway
building. men have almost ceased TO
argue that women will neglect their
home if they have suffrage. That mas
proven a fallacy in the states where
women legislate, but we do want to
prove that woman has the right TO
protect the home"
Senator Robinson, did not think that
getting the ballot would mean that
women will seek public offices.
"There has been a haunting fear on
the part of men that women Will try
to Dust them from their jobs" she
said, "but although we have had the
ballot for twenty years IN COLORADO
there have been very few women office
seekers" -
Senator Robinson is the only woman
| senator in America. 1.-The novelty OF
my appearance in the senate really
helped my work during the first term
said Mrs. Robinson. Il found but lit
tie opposition from the men: or course
there were a few very small men who
resented my being there, but on the
whole I was made very welcome, ana
especially so after the men found that
a woman's point of view can help a
good cause materially. We need Wo-
men in our legislature to give a broad-
er vision to the work oflaw-making. A
WOman Will THINK OF reasons Aoi lillnSS
when a man will not"
DR.. Auten Pine made the address or
welcome at the opening of the state
meeting. DR.. Margaret Koch OF Min
neapolis responded. The state commit
| tees reported on their work for the
past year, showing rapid growth in or
| %ganization work in all counties OF the
state. .r
Mrs. A. H. Potter made a report on
the state fair work. Mrs. 5. A. STOCK
we'll of Minneapolis asked that the
Minnesota convention invite the next
Mississippi Valley suffrage conference
to come to the twin cities. This mat
ter will be taken up today.
""The last conference was a splendid
one, and it certainly would be of bene-
fit to Minnesota to have women from
twenty states here" said Mrs. Stock
well. THE conference enables us to
find out who our enemies are n to
fight them openly" = .- :
Mrs. A. P. lyman, DR.. Ethel Hurd
and Miss Frances Youmans Of Mime
apolis we're appointed a credentials
committee and Mrs. A. p. Wyman, Mrs.
S. A. StockwelI and Mrs. G. S.. Hunter
of Minneapolis the resolutions COM
mittee. N.,.-..s- -~ .s,a
Five dollars each was pledged by
Mrs. C. P. Moves, Mrs. c. A. Severance
and Miss Anne Foley of st. Paul and
Mrs. A. H. Potter and Miss Rodgers OF
Minneapolis toward paying for one
share Of stock for the Minnesota asso-
citation in The Woman's. Journal, the
official organ of the ~suffraglsts.
Mayor, Keller, Miss Margaret j. Ev-
ans Of Mortified; Miss Harriet Vittum
of Chicago and Mrs. A. H. Bright of
Minneapolis, spoke at the luncheon
Yesterday, ..,