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

convention held in Atlanta, The wom-
en- who came 10 this first State con-
yention to speak for Suffrage were
Mrs, Virginia y. Young, president 81
the South Carolina Suffrage Associa-
ton. Miss Frances Il. Griffin. preai-
dent Of the Alabama suffrage AS
sociation and Mrs Claudia Howard
Maxwell Mrs. Gertrude G. Thomas
and Mrs |. W. Parks, OF Georgia, ana
the meeting was held In the hall of
the House Of Repre- sentatives. al
though the Governor had refused 10
permit the officers Of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa
ton to hold meeting IN it, sacred
precints. because. ne declared, at
would be- unconstitutional
-Four years afterward Utah and
Idaho women had been enfran-
chised, and Kansas women had
municipal suffrage rights, and
things looked different Hon Martin
Y. Calvin. Of Richmond County, with
ont any trouble, mad a resolution car
ried which gave the Georgia Woman
Suffrage Association the use OF that
same hall.
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
state conventions were held, some
times with the help Of the Rev. ANA
Howard Shaw. Mrs Carrie Chapm IN
Gait and Miss Laura Clay--the last
one i'm 1913. and the speakers were al
Georgia women n is no trouble for
the program committees to get ma
tive born men and women to spe sd
out in fav + az woman suffrage now
adayg. and they are fiocking in to join
The greatest movement for the uplift
iof humanity that has been known In
the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turtles.
The first effort made by the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association for the
enfranchisement OF women was in
1886 Mr. Charles A. Read a member
Of the Atlanta Equal Suffrage Assoc
citation. auxiliary to the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association, formu-
lated a bin asking that the word male
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 1888
similar attempts were made but sig
naly failed. as no man could he found
To- father the bill.
In 1903 Hon. Claude Payton, OF
Worth County, Georgia. introduced
male after the word male but II
never left the committee room. In
1g1l-l9t2 Mr.. Peyton again offered
bill to tho same effect, but II became
the butt Of ridicule with the commit
tee 10 which il was referred and new
er appeared for a second reading. no
o'Asr man has made an effort TO help
ia women to get where they can
help themselves In 1894 the W. G.
r. L.. with the suffragists of Atlanta,
with petitions appeared before the
city Council Of Atlanta and asked
that the department Of police matron
be created with appropriate SALARY.
This request was never complied with
until 1898. Then the state Outrage
Association sent petition TO the
Legislature asking for a police ma
tron IN every city In Georgia OF 10000
or more inha bitants This petition
was ignored by the Legislature be-
cause the petitioners wer" all women.
4 committee was appointed To hno
out what proportion OF the taxes OF
the State VAS levied on the properties
Of the women Of Georgia.
The committee found II TO be 20
per cent. Bills and resolutions were
pressed on the attention OF the Legis-
idlDIA III 1870 - NAFAlAIh tA'N I''I
ertv OF women from taxation until
they are permitted to vote. claiming
that taxation without representation
is tyranny" in 1898 as II was con-
coded to be in 1875; also TO raise the
age OF consent from 10 years 10 lS;
and again a bill for police matrons
in cities Of 10000 or more inhabitants.
We have asked continually that the
I7niVprsitv OF Georgia be opened TO
women.
We have ahe continuously that
women become members OF the
boards Of education; that women
be placed on the staff Of physicians
OF the State Lunatic Ayslum: that
women be made eligible to the Office
of president of the Georgia Normal
end Industrial college. We have
begged that women be permitted to
practice law in Georgia. that mothers
be made co. guardians with their
husba nds Of their minor children; that
women be permitted to be notarles
public. that girls Of IS be permitted
to enter the textile department Of the
state Neurological School.
We have begged time and again for
decent child labor law and COM
pulsory education law in Georgia.
which would take the children from
mills. factories, mines and stores. and
the streets. and put them in the
schoolhouse. and all these things have
been refused TO the women who have
only the right of petition in Georgia,
except that n woman physician has
been admitted as member Of the
staff of physicians in the State Lu-
matte Asylum, and last year mothers