The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-01
Colorado Senator Speaks

Miss Robinson, the Colorado senator, de-
livered the principal address in the aft
ernoon, her subject being Women as Leg
islators."
brought the woman movement to its
present proportions" she said, is the
determination of women to protect the
home We still meet occasionally men
and women left over from yesterday.
who persist in the motheaten asser-
tion that the home must suffer If now
and then a woman takes a ballot in her
hands instead of a broom; and yet there
are beautiful, well ordered and inspir-
ing homes In America where the moth
ers and grandmothers have been hand
ling the ballot for A years
In a brief address at the conclusion
of the meeting Miss Jane Addams, set
tlement worker of Chicago, declared
that the country and the world We're
approaching a new order of things in
politics. Basic changes were about to
be made, she said, and, as in all basic
principles and in all phases of human
life, women were and would be in
volyed in the changes.
Morning, afternoon and evening ses-
sions of the convention will be held
daily until next Friday. Plans for sub
mitting the demands of the women to
the President and Congress have not
expect to put in a busy week at the
capital aside from the routine of as
sociation meetings.
The delegates are from every state
in the Union and for each one there is
an average of five other women who
will attend the convention.
Want House Suffrage Committee
Interest in the convention is secon-
dary to the hearing before the House
committee on rules set for Tuesday
morning, December 2, on the PROPOSE
tion for the creation of a standing COM
mittee of woman suffrage in the House.
The Senate already has such com
mittee. Both men and women for and
against the creation of such COM
mittee will be heard. Mrs. Arthur M.
Dodge of New York, who, as president
of the national association opposed to
woman suffrage. will lead the forces of
anti-woman suffrage at the meeting.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw. president of
the National Suffrage association, Will
marshal the suffragists for their cause.
Among her followers who will speak
at the hearing are Miss Jane Addams,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, Representa-
tive Baker of California, Mrs. Ida
Hustled Harper Mrs. Mary c. C. Brad
ford. state superintendent of schools of
Colorado, Mrs. Mary Baird, Miss Alice
the Womans Journal; Mrs. Catherine
Waugh Mccullough, a justice of the
peace of Evanston, ILL.,, and Mrs. Jessie
Hardy Stubbs.
Confident of Success
The women are firm in their belief
that they will get the suffrage commit
tee in the House. They base their hopes
on the recent statement made by Presi-
dent Wilson to the New Jersey delega-
ton of woman suffragists that he had
been comforting with members of the
House in regard to the creation of such
a committee.
Miss Alice Paul will deliver Monday
the address of welcome to the conven-
tion. The response in behalf of the ma
tional association will be made by Mrs.
Solon Jacobs of Birmingham president
of the Alabama Suffrage association.
Mrs. Jacobs, who is prominent So
cial leader in Birmingham, has for
years been interested in the woman suf-
frage movement Alabama, she says,
contrary to the general belief, has
thousands of members in the state or
ganization and several branch organ
izations. The woman suffrage move
ment in the south, she declares, Is
growing in volume and will shortly
prove surprise to all sections of the
country.
Mrs Jacobs will have with her sew
eral other prominent Alabama women
in the suffrage movement, including
Mrs Oscar Hundley. Mrs. Hundley has
been active for woman suffrage in Ala
bama for years