Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-27

to the National Suffrage Association. The
principal roles are taken by Miss owe
Wyndham, Miss Katherine Kaelred lead
sydney Booth, of 'The Yellow Ticket
company, nephew OF Edwin Booth and
Or. Anna Howard Shaw
Nashville is said to be so enthusiastic
over entertaining the convention that II
will grudge the time necessarily devoted
to business sessions. Nashville women
are arranging a parade, also an old-fash-
Toned barbecue at Andrew Jaekson's ola
Vernon of the South. There will, OF
course, be many informal dinners ana
luncheons during the convention, ana an
afternoon tea at one of the beautiful
country clubs. on one evening the Suf-
fragists i'm charge of the press work
throughout the country viii dine ana dis-
cuss plans for the coming year. Another
evening. the professional women at the
convention will meet at dinner The pro-
fessional womans dinner arranged by DR.,
Eliza Taylor Ransom, of Boston, during
last years Washington convention, was
great success. the guests including many
of the best-known minister's doctors apd
lawyers i'm the United States.
But II is not so much the special events
which make a convention interesting as
il is the general cOmradeship and Inter-
change OF IDEAS among women from all
parts Of the country engaged in all kinds
Of work. The women of the north and
west are especially interested in the MANI
brilliant Southern women who are giving
their time and energses so fully To wom-
an suffrage. Among these women are:
Virginia-Mrs Lila Mead Valentine, Rich
mond President of the Virginia Equal
Suffrage Association; Miss Ellen Glas-
cow Richmond; Miss Mary Johnston
Warm Springs, Virginia; Mrs Kate Wal
Ter Barrett, Alexandria. Virginia North
carolina-Mrs. 4. Henderson, Chapel Hill,
President of the Equal Franchise League;
Miss Anna Forbes Liddell. Charlotte; Miss
susanna Bynum, Charlotte. South Caro-
lina-Mrs NJ. T. Coleman, Abbeville,
President of the Equal Suffrage League;
Mrs Henry Ma nIIsst GoiumSis; Mss sg-
Mary McLendon, Atlanta, President Of
Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association;
Mrs. Emily MeDougald. Atlanta, Presi-
dent Equal Suffrage Party; Mrs; Frances
5. Whiteside. Atlanta. Florida-Mrs
Roselle C. Cooley, Jacksonville, President
of Equal Franchise Association; Rev,
Woman Suffrage Association; Miss Fran
ces Anderson, Jacksonville. Alabama
Mrs. Pattie Jacobs. Birmingham, Presi-
lent OF Equal Suffrage Association: Mrs
stern, Montgomery. Mississippi-Mrs
Annie X. Dent. Yazoo City. President OF
Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs Nellie
Nugent Somerville. .Greenyille; Miss Pau
line Orr, Jacksonville. Tennessee-NIiss
Maria Thompson Daviess, Nashville; Miss
Sarah Barnwell Elliott. sewanee; Mrs
Mrs. Desha Breckinridge. Lexington.
President Of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Association; Miss Laura Clay, Richmond I;
Mrs. James Leech, Louisville. Louisiana
Miss Kate Gordon, New Orleans, Presi-
lent 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
aegean, Houston. President OF Texas Wom-
an Suffrage Association; Miss Eleanor W.
breckenridge, san Antonio; Mrs Hor-
tense Ward, Dallas.
The rapid growth OF the Southern or
ganizations both in members and enthu-
siasm Is alone sufficient TO contradict the
prediction, which used to be frequently
made, that the South would never en-
dorse votes for women In fact, IL was
generally said at Washington last year
that-the presence of so many charming
spring thing about the Convention
Nashville itself, as well as the organized
/ suffragists of Tennessee, is prepared to
give o warm welcome to the women who
arc leaving their homes and their impOr-
/ tant work In order 10 take counsel to-
dcers, the Chamber OF Commerce, the
Business Mems Association, and the
newspapers are all cooperating 10 fur
nish a warm welcome 10 the Convention
The program for the Convehtion Is in
charge OF the following Committee; pr.
man; Mrs Mary Ware bennett, sos Firth
venue. New York. Secretary; Mrs. stan
lev Mccormack. Boston, Mrs. Ida Clyde
/ Clarke, Nashville Miss Jean GOrdOs. New
orleans; Miss Elinor Byrns, New York.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton. Of Con-
I cal arrangements. and Mrs John n. KEN
ny. OF Nsshyihs. Is Tennessee's chairman
of local arrsng smepts. Convention head
quarters viii be 81 the HormktAka H0fGI.