The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27
SUFFRAGE CONVENTION WILL
BE ONE OF THE LIVELIEST
Two Bones of Contention Will Lend Animation to Com
ing Great Meeting in Nashville. Tenn.-lssues Big
Live and ImperSOna.

tend the IreeQOm Oh tne state and city
to the women of the convention. The
evening meetings, which are oDen Ia
the public, will be held in Ryman Hall.
which seats 5000 people. Or. Shaw
makes her annual address Thursday
evening, and the convention will cele-
brate the victories which suffragists
have no doubt Will be theirs Novem-
Der 3.
Nashville women are
parade-in itself, proof positive that
suffragist enthusiasm has won over
Southern conservatism. There Will be
an old fashioned barbecue al 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 Com
merce, the Business Mems Association
and the newspapers are backing them
up vigorously. This convention is
bound to give a jolt to the wide
spread conviction that the South is
anti-Suffrage' and that "sOuthern
states will be the last to come into
line
Mrs. Crozier-French intends to see
to it that Tennessee suffragists set
every drop Of political advantage ont
Of the occasion. The members OF
the Tennessee Legislature for 1918
Nil De elcCtSQ November . she SalQ
recently, and it behooves the Tonnes
see Suffrage Association to direct the
attention of the successful candidates
to the capital city during the DAYS
from November u to November II.
and to keep the vision of our great
body of women before them until they
pass a bill giving the women of Ten
nessee their rights. Mrs. Dudley
agrees with her, and draws hopeful
conclusions from the facts that United
States Senator Lea of Tennessee is
openly for the cause, and that the
democratic candidate for Governor OF
the state, Thomas G. Rye, in his first
political address this fall, declared
that "Tennesse women ought to have
the vote"
A Good. Fair Fight.
But of course local politics won't
compare in Importance with the ques-
tons to be fought out at this conven-
ton. The predictions are that it Will
be a good, fair fight though a spirited
one, since the issues will be big, live
lmperSOnal ones on which intelligent.
earnest suffragists may with reason
differ. The fight will begin the very
first day, when Mrs. Medill McCor.
mick will read her report as chair
man of the Congressional Committee.
Many delegates have requested that
this report be presented early, 50 they
N@A u p1OiltJ VI lliIIc " tdIk II CUT
With the report before the convention
= the BrlstOw-Mondell amendment adj
, ~Vacates, the Shafroth amendment adj
Vocates and the States Rights parti-
. sans will be free to jump into the
, ring.
, 1t is to be hoped they won't take all
, the time of the Convention for the ma
. tional treasurer Mrs. Stanley McCor-
$ mick a to give her report and the
convention must 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.
s VIII report on the National Suffrage
s publishing Company, a business cor.
poratlOn formed to supply suffrage lit.
e erature throughout the United States,
and every department of national
: work viii be discussed. In fact the
programme for the daily sessions,
"hlch the convention is invited to hold
IN the Tennessee House of Represent
| tatlves, is chock full Of business. and
a the evening programmes are full too
: A significant departure from Mem
: League Evening"" a regular feature
f OF the recent conventions, Will be
voters Evening" Friday, November
/ 10 WIN James Lees Laidlaw of New
I ork, President of the National Men,
V League, presiding, and men ana WON
en- voters holding the floor.
{ saturday evening there will be q
discussion of state n national cam
V palgns, with Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Iatt, president of the I"nternationa
G woman Suffrage Alliance. Miss Alice
stone blackwell, editor of the WON.
e an s Journal' Mrs. Antoinette Funl
d 81 CHICAGO and Mrs. Glenna Smith
hmm OF Washington among the
r Monday evening the suffra
gists will relax and enjoy the new
pnoto play Your Cir and Mine
Ai'er the play Miss Zona Gale vii
Iead a new "Friendship Village" stOTl
Y with a suffrage moral.