The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-11
WOMEN SOON ID
 HAVE THE BALLOT, SAYS MRS. BELMONT
Addresses Suffragist Meet ing in Chattanooga-Sen- timent Is IndOrsed By
 Other Speakers

Chattanooga. November 1o.-Predictions that the women of the United States will have the ballot within a comparatively few years and assertions that there will be no quarrel among the leaders over the methods by which it Is to be ob- tained were voiced by Mrs. o. H. P. Bel mont of New York, and other wom en prominent in the suffrage movement throughout the country in their addresses before the southern states suffrage con- vention here tonight
 We suffragettes have progressed SD | far said Mrs. Belmont, who delivered the principal address. that we are actu- 1 ally disagreeing about the terms upon which we shall accept the vote-the in- evitable premonition of victory. I am not particular how the political enamel patton of women is effected. I have sworn allegiance to the national amend ment for women suffrage. while the southern conference seems to hold to the principles of state rights. If the latter method proves effective. I shall gratefully accept the results
 Sentiment Indorsed This sentiment was indorsed by the half dozen other speakers including Mrs. liar riet Stanton Blatch of New York, and Miss Laura Clay of Kentucky. Mrs. Belmont paid a tribue to the women of Europe for the part they are playing during the war. "The climax of the arguments against woman suf- frage," she said. "comes in the asser- ton that women should not vote be- cause they cannot fight But it is | most significant that the various gov ernments are making pathetic appeals to them to save their country by doing l the work of men who have gone to the front. It was the women who sub scribed almost the whole of Frances l emergency issue of national defense bonds. All over Europe women may be found in the fields harvesting, in butchers stalls, cleaning the streets, digging trenches, working on railroads, in the shops-replacing men in every conceivable line of activity in addition to caring for the sick and burying their dead"
 | One of the features of tonights pro- | eramme was a symposium dealing with | a set of resolutions for the social, in dustrial, educational and political ad- vancement of women, adopted by the woman's rights convention held in 1S48 | at Seneca Falls, N. Y, when, 1t is de- cIared, the first public demand by an | organized body in this country for votes for women" was promulgated. | The suffrage resolution was introduced hy Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton, mother of Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. It de- clared: Tt is the duty of the women of the countrS to secure to themselves their sacred right to the ehcctive franchise"
 Blessed Be Ridicule'
 Mrs. Blatch. who was given the chief rlace in the symposium. told of the mo- tives which actuated Mrs Stanton in ad- Nocating the resolution. "It fell like a bomb In that convention of 66 years ago. | said Mrs. Batch. "The press from Maine tc California. from gulf to great lakes, poured out ridicule on the demand for votes for women,' but blessed be rfdicule. It made known the birth of the woman s | movement"
 Mrs. Blatch characterized the anti-sus- fragist as the Isolated woman unit" and declared that women are the first clase left to fight their battle entirely alone.
 Among other speakers who sounded the note of optimism for the suffrage cause were Mrs. Nellie N. Somerville of Greenville, Miss. Mrs. Hattie R. Parker | O: New Orleans. and Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer of Pennsylvania.
 Delegates in Nashville Nashville. November 10.-The van guard of delegates for the annual con- vention of the National American Woman Suffrage association are in | Nashville tonight and an informal con- ference of the national executive coun- ell will be held tomorrow morning pre- paratory to the first session of the convention which will open Thursday morning
 Delegates are expected from every state in the United States and from some sections of Canada.
 Some of the most brilliant women speakers In the country are on the programme and in addition speeches will be made by men of prominence
 United States Senator Luke Lea has accepted an invitation to address the convention Friday night.
 Several matters of importance will come up for discussion which will lint the members of the association strongly on opposite sides, 1t is stated. One of these matters Is the question of rec ognition of the Woman's Congressional union, an off-shoot of the woman suf. frage movement. Heretofore the na- tional association has refused to recog- nize the congressional union as an ad junct of the parent body but at this convention an effort will be made tc have recognition given.