Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-03

CONVENTION held in Atlanta. The wom-
en- who came 10 this first state con
yent!on TO speak for suffrage Were
Mrs Virginia y. Young president pi
the South Carolina Suffrage AssOcla-
ton. Miss Frances i. Griffin, pres
dent of the Alabama suffrage As
sociation, and Mrs Claudia Howard
Maxwell. Mrs Gertrude c. Thom1-
and Mrs J. W Parks, Of Georgia, an
the meeting was held In the hall 1T
the House of representatives, al
though the Governor had refused 10
permit The officers Of the Nationdi
American woman Suffrage Associa-
non TO- hold meeting in its sacred
SCENTS, because he declared, III
would be uncoDstitutiOnal'
-Four years aftorward Utah ana
Idaho women mad been enfran
chised. and Kansas women had
municipal suffrage rights. and
things looked different Hon. Martin
s.. Calvin ~ Richmond County, with
out any trouble had resolution car
rjcd which gave the Georgia WOm4n
Suffrage Association the use Of that
same hall
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
state conventions were held some
times Wlth the help of the Rev. Ana
Howard Shaw. Mrs Carrie Chapm n
Gait and Miss Laura Clay-the last
one In 1918. and the speakers were az
Georgia women. IT Is no trouble Tor
the program committees to get ma
tlye-born men and women TO SPEAK
out In faV r of woman suffrage now
adays. and they are Hooking in 10 join
the greatest movement for the upNtt
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the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turtles
The first effort made by the Georgia
woman Suffrage Association for the
enfranchisement Of women was IN
1895 Mr. Charles A. Read member
Of the Atlanta Equal Suffrage Asso-
citation. auxiliary ia the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association, formu-
lated a bill asking that the WORD maic
he eliminated from the Constitution
II was presented by the state presi-
dent and members Of the Atlanta
Equal Suffrage Association. Nothing
was ever heard from IT, and In 1889
similar attempts were made. but sig
ndlly failed, as no man could be found
10 father the bill.
In 1903 Hon. Claude Payton, ol
Worth County. Georgia. introduced
the bill In the House to add and ie-
male" after the word male" bat IL
never left he committee room In
1g11-fgl2 Mr. Peyton again offered a
bill 10 the same effect, but II became
the butt Of ridicule with the commit
tee to which ID was referred and new
err appeared for second reading. no
otE.r man has made an effort 10 help
m women to get where they can
help themselves. In 1894 the w. ~
r. e. with the suffragiste of Atlanta,
with petitions appeared before the
CITY Council Of Atlanta and asked
that the department % police matroh
be created with appropriate salary
This request was never complied VAIN
until 1898. Then the State fuffrase
Association sent q petition 10 the
Legislature asking for police ma
tron IN every city in Georgia OF 10000
or more inhabitants This petition
was ignored by the Legislature be
cause the petitioners Wer" all women
A committee was appointed 30 mo
out what proportion of the taxes or
the State was levied on the properties
OF the women of Georgia.
The committee found II 10 be 20
per cent. Bills and resolutions were
pressed on the attention OF the Legis-
ertv OF women from taxation until
they are permitted to vote, claiming
that taxation without representation
is tyranny in 1898 as II was con
ceded Ia be in l776; also 70 raise the
age Of consent from 10 years 70 IS;
and again a bill FOR police matronS
in cities Of 900 or more inhabitants
We have. asked continually that the
University of Georgia be opened to
women,
We have asl<ed continuously that
women become members of the
boards of .ducation that women
be placed on the stan Of physicians
of the State lumatic Asylum; that
women be made eligible to the office
OF president of the Georgia Normal
and Industrial College. We have
begged that women be permitted to
practice law in Georgia that mothers
be made co., guardians with their
husbands of their minor children, that
women be permitted to be notaries
public: that girls OF Is be permitted
To enter the textile department Of the
state archaeological School.
We have begged time and again for
a decent child labor law and a COM
puIsory education law in Georgia
which would take the children from
mills, factories, mines and stores. ana
the streets, and put them in the
schoolhouse, and all these things nave
been refused TO the women who have
only the right OF petition In Georgia,
eXrept that d woman physician has
been admitted as d member of the
stan of physicians in the State Lu-
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