The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-01
SIX DETROIT SUFFRA-
GISTS IN CAPITAL PARADE
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Will carry the Michigan banner in tho
parade. Mrs. Oostdyk is president OF
the Wayne County Equal Suffrage or
sanization. Mrs. Hall is a graduate
OF Wellesley.
Fifty suffragists from other cities
and villages OF Michigan will leave
for Washington. sunday. Among
them will be the Rev Caroline Bart
lett Crane. OF Kalamazoo.
The first big mass meeting OF the
suffrage campaign will be held in the
Church of Our Father. Tuesday even.
ing, March I. at o'clock. under the
auspices OF the College Equal Suffrage
league. The speakers will be Mrs.
Florence Kelley. OF New York, ana
Miss Laura Clay, OF Lexington, Ky.
Mrs. Kelley's subject will be The
child of the bond-woman VS.. the child
or the free-woman." Miss Clay will
talk on Justice rather than charity.
Dr. Mary Thompson Stevens, presi.
dent of the league, will be chairman
OF the meeting, and Mrs. Clara b.
Arthur will also be on the platform.
Both Mrs. Kelley md Miss Clay
are eloquent speakers To Mrs. kei-
lev is due the greater part OF the in
teligent factory legislation Of thu
country. State after state has called
on her for assistance as its legislative
bodies have taken u the study or
factory conditions and the labor or
women and children; and in many
states where legislatu -es were unwili-
ing to act. Mrs. Kelley, by assisting
organizations OF Diet, rmined women.
"A hx- ~ ,-l,; rh
she has unearthed concerning labor
conditions. has forced the reluctant
statesman TO pass the measures which
she has advocated.
Miss Clay Ia daughter OF the
eloquent Cassius VI. Clay, OF Kentuc.
ky, a member of the famous family
which produced Henry Clay. She Ia
said TO have Inherited the eloquence
of her father. who is chiefly remem-
bered for his successful advocacy or
the Alaska purchase.
! Next Saturday evening. March s.
the College Equal Suffrage league will
give a dinner in the upper tea room.
No. 200 Woodward-ave, at $50
O'Clock. The diners will be addressed
by Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
Hale. Both men and women are well
coined. Reservations may be secured
OF Mrs. Elliott y. Grosvenor, No. 1929
Grand Riverave.
On Sunday. March 9, a mass meet
ing will be held, hour and place TO
be fixed later, which will be address
ed by Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson
Hale.
Mrs. Elizabeth Schauss. president
OF the Toledo Suffrage society, weE
come to Detroit, Monday. TO assist in
the Michigan campaign. Mrs. Schauss
worked among the factory men OF
Toledo during the Ohio suffrage cam
paign, and 1t was largely due to her
efforts that Toledo was the only large
city of the state to return q suffrage
plurality.
To raise money for suffrage work.
the suffragists held q sale Of cakes
and cookies, Saturday. in the store Of
II. c. Weber 4 Co.. No. 10 Gratiot-
ave.
The fact that equal sunragists oil
over the country have felicitated
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, on
his reception OF the suffrage army"
on its march from New York to Wash
ington, the other day reused the re-
sentiment of the Detroit ''antis" and
Mrs. John V. Moran. was prevailed
upon TO send a message 10 the car
dinal's secretary, asking II the pre-
late had changed his well-known
views OF opposition To votes for wo-
men. receiving a reply from the sec
rotary, l.. X. Stickney 10 the effect
that the cardinal ia receiving the
party, March 25, had 40 intention OF