Evening star., 1913-11-29
COME To CAPITAL
TO DEMAND VOTES
Suffragists Are Here From
Every State to Attend
Convention.
SESSIONS BEGIN MONDAY.
AS CONGRESS CONvENES
DR.. Anna Shaw, Miss Jane Adams
and Other Leaders Are Al
ready in the City.

To the call of Votes for Women" suf-
fragists from every state of the nation
fiocked to Washington today for the
forty fifth convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association,
which opens formally Monday and which
promises to be the biggest gathering of
women ever held here.
Conferences between leaders. the regis
tering of several hundred delegates at
the headquarters at the Bellevue Hotel.
and meetings of several committees were
held today, and tomorrow afternoon there
is to be big mass meeting at the Co
lumbia Theater.
Prominent Leaders Here.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president of
the national association; Miss Jane Ad-
dams, first vice president; Mrs. Mary
Ware bennett, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Susan w. FftzGerald, recording Sec
retary: Mrs. Katherine Dexter McCor-
mick, treasurer. and Mrs. Harriet Bur-
ton Laidlaw, auditor, were among the
arrivals in town today.
Mrs. Nina E. Allender. chairman of
the credentials committee, with large
force of young woman assistants, opened
headquarters this morning at the Belle
vue Hotel, and Mrs. Mary Realty Clagett
opened a bureau of information at the
same place. !.
Delegates to the convention who are
also members of the National College
Equal Suffrage League held a meeting
this morning at the National Hotel, with
Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Boston presid-
ing. Miss Elsie Hill, president of the
District branch of the league, welcomed
these delegates to- Washington. saying
Washington headquarters. can do much
to promote the cause of woman suffrage.
Luncheon for College Women.
This afternoon about fifty of the college
women held a luncheon. Among the
speakers were DR.. Shaw. Miss Addams,
Miss Hill, Miss Lucy Burns, vice chair
man of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage: Miss Marion Reilly,
dean of Bryn Mawr College; Mrs. Thom-
as n. Hepburn and others.
The college women voted to continue
their work and to make renewed efforts
to interest more college women In the
suffrage movement. Speakers at the
standing of college women they WELD
much influence.
Fresh from their victory in Illinois,
large delegation of women from that
state arrived here during the morning on
q special train. In the delegation were
In getting the suffrage bill through the
Illinois legislature, including Mrs. Cath
crime Waugh Mccullough, Mrs. Ella
Seass Stewart, Mrs. Antoinette Funk,
Mrs. Elizabeth X. Booth and Mrs. Grace
Wilbur Trout.
Came on "Manless Special"
The Illinois delegation, numbering more
than 100 women, came on a "maniess
special with even woman Pullman por-
ters- Several meetings We're held en-
route. Illinois has thirty-nine accredited
delegates to the convention.
State Senator Helen Ring Robinson oe
Colorado. one of the early arrivals, pre-
dicted today that in ten years women will
be sitting in Congress. She was of the
opinion that the example of Colorado in
electing women to its legislature will be
followed by other states.
The main convention is to be held at
New Masonic Temple. and will last
until Friday. with meetings mornings,
afternoons and nights. Arrangements
have been made for serving luncheon
to the delegates at Masonic Temple. in
order that they lose as little time as
possible from the business which brings
them here.
Suffrage School Subjects.
school is to open at the Public Library
December s. The Art of Lobbying"
will be expounded in six lectures by
Mrs. Sherman X. Booth, who was a
foremost worker in winning the Illinois
victory. Automobile Campaigns"
Street Meetings. How to Reach the
Man Voter" Suffrage as 1t Affects the
Home" and other subjects will be treat
ed. Mrs. Robert La Toilette will lecture
on How to Reach the Rural Voter in
a Suffrage Campaign"
The lecturing, however, will not be
confined to women. Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley. Senator Chamberlain, representa-
tive Victor Murdoch, progressive leader
OF the House; Assistant Secretary Post
of the Department of Labor and many
other men in public life will address the
workers.
Next weeks convention, however.
promises TO deal with the internal af-
fairs of the organizations, plans for fill
ing the war chest, new campaigns and
making of converts. 1t probably will be
ever held in the capital. Suffragists chose
ever held In the capital. Suffrage chose
this time for the rally, because they felt
the convening of Congress and Presi-
dent Wilson's delivery of his first an
nual message was psychological mo-
ment for concentrated strike for their
cause
MEMS LEAGUE TO UPHOLD