Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-03
Wilson Played
 by Suffragists
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY MA
 TlONAL BODY,
LOST HIS OPPORTUNITY
Failure to Say Something in Behalf of Woman Suffrage in His Message Disappointing, Declares pr. Shaw.

Washington, Dec. 2.-Dr. Anna How ard Shaw. president of the National American Woman Suffrage association caused a sensation when she declared that President Wilson had fallen short of the greatest opportunity he ever had or ever would have in failing to say a word in behalf of woman suffrage to- day when he read his annual message to congress. Her remarks provoked loud and prolonged applause. Dr. Shaw said she had hoped that the president would arise to the occasion, but that while he had recognized the necessity for the extension of the ballot to the F1HpinOs, and urged territorial voters rights for Alaska, he had failed to mention woman suffrage in his mes sage.
 Fell Short of Opportunity.
 President Wilson," she continued, referred in his message to the fact that the time had come for an exten- sion of greater social justice and we women eagerly listened to this. We had hoped that social justice would in clude some measure of political justice to the women of the country. I feel fully that measure of disappointment which, under the circumstances, is nat urab for the time had come for the president to say a word in our behalf.
 We feel that President Wilson has fallen short of the greatest opportunity
 
 come to him. No other president has ever had such an opportunity. Presi- dent Wilson had the opportunity of speaking word which might ulti- mately lead to the enfranchisement of large part of the human family. Even Lincoln. who by a word freed a race, had not this opportunity to release from the bonds one-half of the human family.
 T feel that must make this state- ment as broad as 1t is for the reason that we at Budapest last year realized that womankind throughout the world looked to the United States to blaze the way for the extension of universal suffrage in every quarter of this great globe. President Wilson has missed the one thing that might have made it possible for him never to have been forgotten. I am saying this on behalf of myself and of my fellow officers"
 When Dr. Shaw concluded, the con- vent1On, amid enthusiastic cheering adopted by exclamation the following resolution introduced by Dr. J. William Funk of Baltimore:
 Resolved, That it Is the sense of this meeting that President Wilson failed to rise to the sublfrnest heights of democracy when he failed in his message to congress today to recom- mend the freedom of half the citizens of the civilized wDrld.'
 To Prevent MiIitaney.
 Fear of bringing on a revolt that might give America a militant suffra- gist organization today caused leaders in the National Woman Suffrage as- sociation to abandon their efforts to have adopted a new constitution re- ported by a revision committee ap- pointed a year ago. Advocates of rights for state associations and opponents of 8 proposed budget system for rais- ing fhe national OPRaniZafi0niS S funds declined emphatically to accept the recommendations and finally the draft was referred back to the committee with instructions that 6 compromise constitution to meet the views of all the factions be prepared.