The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1914-11-04

to the National Suffrage Association. The
principal roles are taken Ey Miss phNe
WYudhIm, Miss katherine kdclI"d, lead
ing lady in Joseph ana us bIeIAreh,
sydney Booth. of 1.-THE Yellow Ticket
company, nephew Of Edwin Booth, AMI
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.
Nashville is said To be so enthuSlast.c
over entertaining the convention that it
viii gIudgC the Time nc1csS arlly ueNHleH
10 business sessions. Nashville women
are arranging parade, also an oid-Iasn .
Toned barbecue at Andrew luCksons old
home. The Hermitage called the Mount
Vernon Of the South. There VIII, OF
course, be many informal dinners ana
luncheOns during the convention, ana an
afternoon tea ut one of the beautiul
country clubs. on one evening the sui
fragists in charge of the press WnfN
throughout the country Will dine and ais
cuss plans for the coming year. AnOtneF
evening the professional women at th'
convention viii meet at dinner. Inc pro
fessional womun'S dinner arranged by III.
IsliZn Taylor Ransom, of Boston, durinS
LAST wears Washington convention, was Il
great success. the guests including many
of the best known ministers, doctors ana
LAWYERS in the United States.
Rut IT is not so much the special events
which make a convention interesting as
IL is the general cumradeshtp and inter
change of IDEAS among women from all
parts of the country engaged i'm all kinds
Of work The women of the north aHd
west are especially Interested in the many
brilliant Southern women who are giving
their time and energies so fully to wom-
an suffrage Among these women are:
Virginia--Mrs, Lila Mead Valentine, Rich
mond, President of the Virginia Equa'
Suffrage Association; Miss Ellen Gas
row. Richmond; Miss Mary Johnston
Warm Springs, Virginia; Mrs. Kate Wal
Ter Barrett, Alexandria, Virginia. North
Carolina-Mrs A. Henderson Chapel Hin,
President of the Equal Franchise League;
Miss Anna Forbes L.iddell, Charlotte; Miss
susanna Bynum, Charlotte. south Caro-
of l.plNsIp
SIrs. Henry Martin, Columbia; Miss Su-
san Frost, Charleston. Georgia-Alrs.
Mary McLendon, Atlanta. President of
Georgia Woman's Suffrage Associate
Mrs Emily McDougald, Atlanta, Presi-
dent Equal Suffrage Party; Mrs; Frances
s. Whiteside,, Atlanta Elorida-Alrs.
OF Equal Franchise Association; Rev.
Mary Stafford. Orla President Florida
Woman Suffrage Association; Miss Fran
ces Anderson Jhcksqnivlniie, nn'pa p,nsi
dent OF Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs.
Oscar Hundey. Birmingham: Mrs, s. b.
stern M2ntgomery c M,ississppimMr :,
Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Nellie
Nugent Somerville, Greenyille; Miss Pau
line Orr, Jacksonville Tennessee-MIiss
sarah Barnwell Elliott, sewanee; Mrs.
Crozier French, Knoxville. Kentucky
Mrs Desha Breckenridge, Lexington.
President of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Mrs James Leech. Louisville. Louisiana
Miss Kate Gordon. New Orleans, Presi-
dent of the Southern States Woman Suf-
frage Conference; Miss Jean Gordon New
Orleans, President of the Louisiana Wom-
an Suffrage Association; Mrs, Edgar NJ.
Calm, New orleans. Miss Annette Fin
neean. Houston. President of Texas Wom-
an Suffrage Association. Miss Eleanor "
Rrackenridge, san Antonio: Mrs Hor-
tense Ward. Dallas; Mrs Gulford Dud-
ley, Nashville.
The rapid growth of the Southern or
ganizations both In members and enthu-
siasm is alone sufficient TO contradict the
predlc ton, which used to be frequently
made that the South would never en-
dorse votes for womea. In fact, ID was
generally said at Washington last year
that the presence OF so many charm'ng
spiring thing about the Convention
Nashville itself. as wen as the organized
suffrugists Of Tennessee, is prepared To
give o warm welcome to the women who
arc leaving their homes and their impor-
/ tant work In order TO take counsel to-
iicers. the Chamber OF Commerce, the
business Mems Association, and the
newspapers are all cooperating to fur
nish n warm welcome to the Convention
The program for the Convention is in
charge of the following Committee: pr,
man; Mrs. Mary Ware bennett; sos Fifth
avenue. New York. Secretary: Mrs. STAN
4 lev Mccormick. Boston: Mrs Ida Clyde
Clarke. Nashville; Miss Jean Gordon. New
Orleans: Miss Flinor Byrns, New York.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson-seton. Of Con-
necticut. II the National chairman Of To-
ny, OF Nashville. is Tennessee's chairman
| OF local arrangements. Convention head.
quarters will be at the Hermitage Hoteo