The Washington herald., 1914-10-18
Mr.. Morgan Bradford, Jr,
Principal Bradford Detective Service.
Washington. d. c.

tories which suIragists have no doubt
will be theirs November 3
Nashville women are arranging a par
ade-in itself, proof positive that suf-
frage enthusiasm has won over Southern
conservatism. There will be an old-fash-
ioned barbecue at Andrew Jackson's
home, The Hermitage" many dinners
and luncheons, and an afternoon tea
at one Of the beautiful country clubs.
The Southern women are bubbling with
hospitable plans, and the Nashville
Chamber OF Commerce. the Business
Mems Association and the newspapers are
backing them up vigorously. This con-
Vention Is bound TO give a jolt to the
widespread conviction that the South
Is anti-sunrage," and that Southern
States will be the last to come into line"
After Every Advantage.
Mrs. crozier-French intends to sea.
to It that Tennessee sufTragists get every
drop OF political advantage out Of the
occasion. The members Of the Ten
nessee legislature for 1915 will be elect
ed November g." she said recently, '.and
1t behooves the Tennessee Suffrage As
ISOLATION to direct the attention Of the
successful candidates TO the capftaI CITY
during the days from November 70 70
November II, and to keep the vision of
our great body OF women before than,
until they pass a bill giving the women
OF Tennessee their rights" Mrs. Dudley
agrees with her, and draws hopeful con-
ciusions from the facts that United
states Senator Lea, OF Tennessee, is
openly for the cause. and that the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor Of tb.s
state, Thomas c. Rye. in his first poIIti-
cal address this fail. declared that Ten
hessee women ought to have the vote -
MIS- Stanley Mccormick, national treas
urer, Will report and the convention rnus-
not only decide on a plan of work for
the coming year. but must also raise the
money to pay for It. Mrs. Cyrus Field, of
New York. will report on the National
Suffrage Publishing Company, a business
corporation formed to supply suffrage III
erature throughout the United States, and
every department Of national work will
he discussed. In fact the program, for
the daily sessions. which the convention
Is invited to hold in the Tennessee house
or representatives, is chock full OF bust
ness, and the evening programs are full.
too significant departure from MEMS
League Evening" regular feature Of re-
cent conventions. will be Voters Even
ing, Friday, Nov. 13. with James Lees
Laidlaw OF New York. president Of the
National Mems League, presiding. and
men and women voters holding the floor.
Saturday evening there will be a dis
cussion OF State and national campaigns,
with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. presi-
dent Of the International Woman SUI
fraEe Alliance; Miss Alice stone Black
we'll. editor of the woman's Journal: Mrs
Antoinette Funk. Of Chicago. and Mrs.
Glenna Smith Tinnin. Of Washington.
among the speakers. Monday evening the
sunragists Will relax and enjoy the new
photo play, Your Girl and Mine" After
the play Miss Zona Gale will read a new
Friendship Village story with a suf-
frage moral
In Charge OF Program.
The program for the convention il
in charge OF the following committee:
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. Moylan, Pa;
MS Mary Ware bennett, New York;
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick. Boston: Mrs. :
Ida Clyde Clarke. Nashville: Miss Jean
Gordon. New Orleans; and Miss Elipor.
Byrns. New York. Mrs. Ernst Thonnp-
son-Seton, Of Greenwich, Conn, is the
national chairman Of local arrange
ments, and Mrs. John y. Kenny, OF
Nashville. Is Tennessee chairman OF
local arrangements.
Among the women who will De pres.
ent are MRS. Roslka Schwirnmer, Of Hun
gary; Miss VI. Carey Thomas, president
Of Bryn Mawr College, who will preside
at the council and luncheon OF the Ma
tional College Equal Suffrage League on
Saturday, November Il; Mrs. Lila Mead
Valentine. Miss Ellen Glasgow, Miss
Mary tombstone. and Mrs. Kate Waller
Barrett, Of Virginia; Mrs. Mary McLen-
don, Mrs. Emily c. McDougald, and
Mrs Frances Smith whiteside, Of Geor-
gia; Mrs. Rosells c. Cooley, and Rev.
Mary Stafford, Of Florida; Mrs. Solon
Jacobs, and Mrs. Oscar HundIey, of /
Alabama; Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, Miss
Laura Clay, and Mrs. James Leech, of
Kentucky; Miss Kate NJ. Gordon, and
Miss Jean Gordon, Of Louisiana; Miss
Jane Addams. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout,
and Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch,
from Illinois; Miss Maria Thompson Da-
viess. the writer, and a vice president
Of the Tennessee Suffrage Association, IL
TO be one OF the hostesses.
The national board has urged the men,
bers Of the executive council to meet in
Nashville on the morning Of November
Il, that a conference may be held to
discuss the problems Of the National
Association.
Canadian Northern has 1884 miles Of
road completed and 7.l52 miles under op-
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