The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-23
Miss Jane Addams, First Vice Prssi
dent National American Woman suf
frage Association.

fraoe association.
to the National Suffrage Association. The
principal roles are taken by Miss Olive
Wyndham, Miss Katherine Kaelred lead
ag lazy Bo n 5os 81 ana 9a n
company, nephew OF Edwin Booth, and
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw.
Nashville is said to be 50 enthusiastic
over entertaining the convention that II
viii grudge the time NECESSARILY devoted
Toned barbecue fsea At Andrew Jackson,s old
home, "The Hermitage, called the Mount
Vernon of the South There win, OF
luncheons during the convention, and an
afternoon tea at one Of the beautiful
country clubs On one evening the suf-
throughout the country will dine and dis
cuss plans for the coming year Another
evening the professional women at the
convention viii meet at dinner. The pro-
fessional Wornans dinner arranged by DIR.
Eliza Taylor Ransom, Of Boston, during
last years Washington convention, was
great success, the guests including many
of the best-known ministers, doctors and
lawyers in the United States.
But it is not so much the special events
which make a convention interesting as
it is the general comradeship and inter-
change of ideas among women from al
Of work. The women of the north and
west are especially interested IN the many
brilliant Southern women who are giving
an suffrage. Among these women are:
Virginia--Mrs Lila Mead Valentine, Rich
men, eslaen y Miss Ellen cas-
gov, Richmond: Miss Mary Johnston,
Warm Springs, Virginia; Mrs. Kate Wall
Ter Barrett Alexandria, Virginia. North
Carolfna-Mrs. A Henderson. Chapel Hill,
President of the Equal Franchise League;
Miss Anna Forbes LiddeIl Charlotte; Miss
Susanna Bynun, Charlotte. South Caro-
Iina-Afrs NJ. T. Coleman, Abbevi1le,
President of the Equal Suffrage League;
Mrs HenIy rharIestoo Georeia lss rs-
Mary McLendon, Atlanta, President Of
Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association:
dent dent Ean a snfsrage Party: Mrs. frances
s. Whiteside, Atlanta. F1orfda-Mrs
RoseIle c. Cooley. Jacksonville, President
Mary Stafford, Orlando, President Florida
Woman Suffrage Association: Miss Fran
ess Anderson
dent of Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs.
oscar Hundley, Birmingham: Mrs. s. b
snnie Dent Yazoo city. PresIdent Of
Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs Nellie
Nugent SomervilIe. GreenyiIie; Miss Pau
Maria Thompson Daviess, Nashville: Miss
Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Sewanee; Mrs.
Mrs. Desha Breckenridge, ~ Lexington,
President Of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Association; Miss Laura Clay, Richmond:
Miss Kate Gordon, New Orleans, Presf-
dent of the Southern States Woman Suf-
frage Conference: Mis- Jean Gordon New
Orleans. President of the Louisiana Won
an Suffrage Association: Mrs. Edgar M
Calm New Orleans Miss Annette Fin
negan Houston. President of Texas WoYn-
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 entfu-
siasm is alone sufficient TO contradict the
prediction. which used to be frequently
made, that the South would never en-
doTse votes for women. In fact, nc was
generally said at Washington last year
that the presence of SO many charming
alert Southern women was the most In
spring thing about the Convention
Nashville itself. as well as the Organized
of Tennessee, is prepared TO
give q warm welcome to the women who
arc leaving their homes and their impor-
tant work in order TO take Counsel to-
gether for the coming year. The city OF
fcers. the Chamber of Commerce. the
Business Mems Association, and the
are all cooperating to fur
The program for the Convention IL iYr
charge of the following Committee. DIR
Anna Howard Shaw. MoyIan, Pa. chair
man: Mrs. Mary Ware bennett. sos Fifth
avenue, New YOrF. Secretary: Mrs stan
ley Mccormick Boston. Mrs Ida Civic
Clarke. Nashville: Miss Jean Gordon New
Orleans: Miss FstnoT Byrns. New York
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton Of Con-
necticut, ~ the National chairman OF 10.
ny, OF Nashville. 10 Tenneeree'r chairman
Of local arrangements Convention head
-.laTters win be at the HermisaDe Hotal