Arizona republican., 1913-12-02
Scenes Rival National Con vention When Meeting Is Called to Order By Presi- dent Anna Howard Shaw In Big Hall.
REPORTS DRAW OUT
 LIBERAL APPLAUSE
Legislation on Railroads, Marriage, and Other Mat ters Planned; Speeches Alternate With Commit tee Reports.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-Enthusi- asm over reports on what has already | been accomplished by the woman suf- i frage movement, even greater than i the enthusiasm over the prophecies of what the future will bring forth, marked the formal opening here to- 1 day of the forty-fifth annual con ventiOn of the National American ! Woman Suffrage association. In call i ing to order the delegates from all i over the country, Dr. Anna Howard 1 Shaw, president of the organization, said
 The time is past when We say, | Please let women vote This has i been changed to, We demand an | amendment to the federal constitution enfranchising women.'
 The victories already gained" she 1 asserted, meant women now have l the right to make such a demand ] First days session ran as smoothly ! as an observatory clock. Without hitch, a delay or a single change of | the program, speeches of welcome, responses. reports of various commit | tees, addresses and other business i had the conventions attention. The purple and yellow flags of va rious state suffrage societies decor i ated the walls of the hall, while in 1 the center hung a great banner de manding in letters of gold An l amendment to the federal constitution 1 enfranchising women
 No greater reception was given to | any speaker than to Mrs. Patty A. Jacobs of Birmingham, Ala, when she said that it is an indictment of
 
 that she did not want the ballot. 1 She was responding to the welcome to the convention by Mrs. Nina Al lendar and Miss Alice Paul of this city. The convention admitted dele 1 gates from North Carolina and South Carolina although organizations from | those states had not yet formally been accepted in the national associa- ton. Dr. Shaw said that the con vention would reverse the theory of the present marriage laws of the country and make it easy to come into the convention, but hard to get out.
 Government ownership of railroads was suggested as a result of woman 1 suffrage when Miss Marie V. Smith of New York reported that difficulty had been found in getting reduced ! railroad fares for the delegates. Dr. Shaw exclaimed When we vote, we'll own the railroads.
 Suffrage legislation has been intro duced or passed in various states this year on an unprecedented scale ac- cording to the report of Mrs. Mary w Dennett of New York, the cor responding secretary
 Glorification of municipal life, reform of the school. jails. poor houses and saloons, and the feminine influence in settling national and in ter national problems-aH this was prophesied for Illinois in the address delivered tonight by Mrs. Ella $. Stewart of Chicago.
 Without prophesying too much, ' she said we have faith to believe that the torch which has been lighted for Illinois women will iIIumine some of the dark places of government. It will cleanse and glorify municipal life, and guide Illinois children into safer paths.
 We hope that votes for women will immediately institute a day when school houses shall be as sanitary as hospitals, beautiful and equipped no more thirty or forty dollar a month teachers-but such salaries as a grateful state should pay it's most important servants.
 This section also gives women q vote on the licensing of saloons, and in every such election in Illinois so far, there has been a demonstration of the antiseptics of the woman s vote. They apparently have needed no coaching
 Illinois women are human. They are not angels, at least not all. They make some mistakes Some of them some time will be over -zealous. Some will be lead, and some will be mis- lead (We inherit from our male re- latives) But at any rate, I dare tc 1 prophecy that Illinois towns and cities will soon feel the propulsion of a great moral energy-and we dare tc covenant with the women of the world, who are making their fight foi freedom, that we will use our power so well that their victory will be . hastened.'
 The long struggle for woman suf- , frage in Illinois was li1ened here to-