Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-30
SUFFRAGE PROGRAM
ABOUT COMPLETED
First December Week to Be
Busy One for Votes for
Women Advocates.

! Announcement was made today at suf-
/ fragist headquarters here of the pro-
gram for the annual convention of the
National American Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION, which convenes formally De-
cember l at the New Masonic Temple.
and which is expected to bring about
| 1000 suffragsts from all parts of the
| United States to Washington.
| The suffragist convention is to open on
! the same day as the regular session of
| Congress. and is planned by the suffra-
| gists to mark the opening of an active
campaign to get the Senate and House
| to pass the pending constitutional amend
ment giving nationwide woman suffrage.
According to the program given out to-
day, the credentials committee is to be
In session all day Saturday, November
| q? at the Hotel Bellevue to pass on the
| credentials of delegates and the eXecu-
! tive committee of the association is to
meet Saturday night at 5 o'clock at the
| Bellevue.
Mass Meeting Sunday.
Sunday, November 30. a mass meeting
| is to be held at 3 o'clock in the after
noon at the Columbia Theater, with DR..
| Anna Howard Shaw. president of the as
ISOLATION, presiding. The president of the
| District Suffrage Association, not yet
elected, is to deliver an address of well
4 come, and Mrs. Scion Jacobs, president
| of the Alabama Suffrage Association, Is
| to respond. There are to be addresses
| by Miss Jane Adams, State Senator
| Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado and
| by three or four other women on indus,
| trial conditions.
| The executive committee Is to meet on
4 .f .lt,6 tf1a Irc
| business session OF the convention is to
! be held in the afternoon. In the evening
a celebration OF the winning of the vote
| by women i'll Illinois Is to be held. The
| speakers are to include Mrs. Grace Wlour
| Trout, Mrs. Sherman n Booth, Mrs.
! Katherine Waugh Mccullough. Mrs Ella
| s. Stewart, Mrs. Medill Mccormick. Mrs.
Antoinette Funk, while Miss Lucy Burns
| is to speak on the national amenqment
and DR.. Shaw is to deliver her annual
| address.
| The question of adopting new con-
| stitution is to come up Tuesday morning
| at a business session, and in the AFTER
noon there is to be a conference on
methods. led by Mrs. Arthur Livermore
of Yonkers. N. Y. In the evening the
National Mems League for Woman SUI
frage, headed by James Lees Laldla"
of New York, is to have charge OF the
program.
Reports from the different state suf-
| frage organizations are to be made Wed
nesday morning. followed by new. busl,
| ness, and conference on methods, leo
by Miss Helen Eacker of Kansas. In
the afternoon the program tor 19l4 Is
to be taken up, and in the evening there
is to be a special program arranged
| nv Mrs J. T. Bowen of Chicago.
Have Places on Program.
| Features of this program are to be
addresses by Judge Julian Mack, now
Of the Commerce Court. but formerly
of the Chicago juvenile court, by Judge
Harry Olsen Of Chicago. by Miss Laud
Minor, probation officer of New York
city, and by Miss Katherine Davis
superintendent of Bedford reformatory
New York.
Business sessions are to be held
Thursday morning and afternoon, and
In the evening there are to be ad
dresses by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
president of the International Suffrage
H Alliance, and by Mrs. Thomas Hepburn
president of the Connecticut Suffrage
Association.
| A congressional hearing is planned
for Friday morning, and in the after
noon the executive committee is >tt
meet. The convention will be closed
with meeting Of the official board
Friday evening.
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. jr. of Phila
delphia is in general charge of the ar.
rangements for the convention.