Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24
SUFFRAG|STS TO
INVADE CAPITAL
National Association to Begin
Annual Convention This Week
at Washington.
WORLDWIDE VOTE PLAN
TO COME UP FOR DEBATE
Prominent Leaders from All
Sections Are to Take Part
in the Program.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Leading
professional women and sociological
experts of the country are expected
TO be in Washington next Saturday
for the opening of the annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association and for the
woman suffrage school which is to
follow it More than 500 suffragists
are scheduled to be present.
The most important subjects to be
considered at the convention are
plans for the carrying on of the cam
paign for an amendment to the Fed
eral constitution enfranchising wom-
en- and the consideration of a new
constitution for the organization.
The new constitution for the ma
tional association is to be proposed
by committee consisting of Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of
the international Suffrage Alliance;
Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Miss Jes-
sic Ashley, Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley
and Mrs. Raymond Brown. The new
constitution, If accepted, is expected
to put the national association on a
sound business basis. 1t provides for
the adoption each year by the annual
convention of a plan of work for the
national association, and budget to
carry out this plan.
The preliminary work of the con-
Vention will be begun next Saturday,
with meetings of the credentials and
executive committees and of the gov
erning board at the Bellevue Hotel.
All of the regular sessions will be
held at the New Masonic Temple.
DIR. shaw to Preside.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the national association, will pre-
side at a mass-m meeting to be held at
81. la 80 H.
afternoon, at which the principal
speakers will be Miss Jane Adams,
of Chicago, and Senator Helen Ring
Robinson, of Colorado. Sunday eve
ming a reunion of delegates is Sched-
uled at the Bellevue Hotel.
The convention will be formally
opened Monday morning, December 1,
simultaneously with the opening of
the regular session of Congress. Mrs.
Nina e. Allender, president of the
District of Columbia Suffrage ASso-
citation, will deliver an address of
welcome on behalf of the District of
Columbia, and Miss Alice Paul, chair
man of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, will welcome the
delegates on behalf of the Congress
sional Union, which will entertain the
convention. Next Mrs. Scion Jacobs,
president of the Alabama Suffrage
ASSQC1dl1OIlt Will ItSDOuu Oh Dcldll
of the national organization. Re-
ports of officers andd apartments will
follow.
The suffrage victory In Illinois is
to be celebrated Monday night, De-
cember 1, with the speakers includ-
ing Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, presi-
dent of the Illinois Suffrage Associa-
ton; Mrs. Sherman X. Booth, legis-
lative chairman of the Illinois Sut-
frage Association; Mrs. Catherine
Mccullough. formerly legislative
chairman; Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, for
mer president of the Illinois Suffrage
Association; Mrs. Medeil Mccormick
and Mrs. Antoinette Funk, both
members of the board of the associa-
ton. DR.. Shaw will deliver her an
nual address, and Miss Lucy Burns,
vice-chairman of the Congressional
Union, will speak on the national
suffrage constitutional amendment.
The new constitution will come UP for
consideration Tuesday morning, De-
cember 2, and when it is disposed of
there will be conference on me =
ods," led by Mrs. Arthur Iiverm IRE,
of Yonkers, N. Y. In the evening
the program is to be under the di-
rection of the National Mems League
for Woman Suffrage, and James Laes
Laidlaw, the president, will preside
The speakers will include Senator
Thomas, of Colorado, chairman of the
Senate suffrage committee, and Sena-
tors Bristow, of Kansas, and Owen,
of Oklahoma, and Representatives
Victor Murdoch, of Kansas: William
Kent, of California; J. w. Bryan, of
Washington State, and former Mayor
George Creel, of Denver.
Presidents of State associations will
make their reports Wednesday morn
ing, and Miss Helen Racker, Of
Lawrence, Kan, will lead another
conference on methods" Next
years program is to be discussed
then.
Women and Children.
Women and Children in the
Courts Is to be the subject for dis
cussion that evening. The speakers
are to include Judge Julian Mack, of
the United States Commerce Court,
formerly of the Chicago Juvenile
Court; Judge Harry Olsen. of the
Chicago Domestic Relations Court:
Miss Maud Minor, probation officer
of New York city, and Miss Kath-
crime Davis, superintendent of the
Bedford reformatory, New York.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait will be
the principal speaker at meeting
Thursday evening. following business
sessions during the morning and af-
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