The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-09
CLUB WOMEN
IN CONVENTION
Big Iowa Delegation Has Ar
rived and Other States
Send Car
Loads.
WOMEN OWN THE CITY
Suffrage Question VIII be One Of the
Most important Topics
Up For Discus
sion.
[By Marie Moore, United Press staff
Correspondent

IBy Marie Moore, United Press staf
Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 9.-Clubs are
trumps In Chicago today.
The club women own the town. The
blue badge Of clubdom is the open
sesame everywhere. The delegates
from Iowa, and the visitor from far
away India can get yeats in over
crowded street cars while Miss Chi
cago cheerfully hangs on strap.
Hotels, stores, theatres are vieing
with each other in making the worlds
biggest women's convention, the Gen
eral Federation Of Women's Clubs
biennial, feel perfectly comfortable.
Although the ten day convention
formally opens tomorrow, no more
than half Of the forty y-eight state dele
cations have arrived, but they are
coming by train loads-Utah. Wiscon-
sin, North Carolina, Massachusetts,.
Nebraska. are among today's arrivals.
All the federation generals are here.
William Todd Hell
muth, Mrs. Dimies T. Dennison, New
York: Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, Los
Angeles; Mrs. Horace Towner, wife Of
the Iowa congressman, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, president OF New York
Equal Suffrage association; Mrs. Char
lotte Perkins Gilman, the militant
feminist; Miss Helen varfck Boswell.
New York and 1nany other rtonner ef
International prominence In public
life.
First OF the foreign delegates to ar
- Y4h ~ 80
don. Other foreigners expected at
the biennial are Mrs. Sarah @. Thurs
ton, Havana, Cuba; Mrs. D. J. F1em-
ing, Of the Purdue club. Lahore, In
dia, and Mrs. H. E. Coleman, Toxic.
Japan.
Despite it's importance as a human
itarian document the biennial program
Is quite overshadowed by the suf-
frage question. The ants make
very sorry showing numerically, but
the argument they are offering against
suffrage endorsement by the conven-
tion is that the federation is non
political organization.
The prediction is that this argument
will be swept away by suffrage en-
thusiasm, when the suffrage resolu-
ton is voted on.
The California delegation. carrying
one lone man, George Mccoy, who was
"chaperoning mis- wife, arrived short
ly before noon. There were 119 club
women in the party and they announc-
ed they had nearly that many votes
for suffrage resolution. Among those
in the California delegation were:
Mrs. Lillian Pray Palmer. Of San
Diego, president Of the California
federation; Mrs. Russell Judson Wat
ers, OF Los Angeles, corresponding
secretary of the California federation:
Mrs. George Butler. Of San Diego,
recording secretary, and Mrs. George
Mccoy, of San Francisco, chairman of
the transportation committee and in
charge Of the train.
Music will soothe the disturbed and
already weary spirits Of the club
women tonight, and noted grand
opera singers will sing at concerts
given for the visitors. Tomorrow
morning, 10000 women will tuck up
their sleeves, f1guratively at least.
and get to work. 1t will be several
days before the convention sets off
fireworks, the set pieces being dress
reform resolution, suffrage resolution
and election of officers. Dress reform
will be considered next Tuesday aft
ernoon when the bureau of informa-
tions hears resolutions for sane and