The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-10-27

Two huge bones of contention prom
Use to make he forty-slXth annuai
convention of the National AIheilcan
| Woman Suffrage Association, Whlcn
will meet in Nashville, Tennessee, NO
| vember u to II, one of the HveIest
in the history of that organlZatlon'
Bone No. l is the question OF the Ieu-
eral amendment VS.. states nights. Inv
movement for a federal amendIlent
received a tremendous impetus When
the women of Illinois won presiden-
| tial suffrage, and if only two or three
of the seven western states. where the
is now on, come into the
| suffrage fold election day, there is
bound to be a strong feeling that the
national organization should give II
self, heart and soul, to the effort to
wiring a suffrage amendment from
the Congress Of the United States. But
that the contingent which believes in
working for freedom state by state is
more determined than ever is shown
by the fact that the Southern States
Woman Suffrage Conference, which
stands for states rights. will meet in
Chattanooga, November 10 and IL,
obviously to decide on a plan Of pro-
cedure for the convention that opens
next day.
Measures Before Congress.
Bone No. 2 is the two-pronsed one
Of the suffrage measures now before
Congress. Many members Of the Ma
tional organization maintain, with the
National Board and Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick, chairman of the Congress
sional Committee, that the Shafroth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, introduced by the Sen
atOr from Colorado, is the Only way
to secure enOugh real suffrage states
to make possible a straight Woman
Suffrage amendment to h ConStitu-
- I'LL 49,
always been and still is the ultimate
aim of the National Association. The
Shafroth Amendment provides for
submitting the question Of Woman
Suffrage to the voters in each state
by initiative petition. But the Con
gressional Union, the offspring
though a very ~preCocious and REBEL
Gus one, Of the National organization
) backs the BristoW-MOndell amend
ment only. The Union has a grip or
it's parent through various Of its lead
erS, who as heads Of state Societie:
are members of the national executive
committee. Such, for example. are
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, preSiden'
of the Women's Political Union Of New
, York, and Mrs. Donald Hooker, pres
ident of the Maryland Good Govern.
ment Club, both capable Of putting VI
q very pretty fight. Mrs. 0. H. p
, Belmont will. of course, aid the Con
gressional Union.
> Bound up with this difference, am
almost overShadoWing it, is the matte
Of the Congressional Unions policy il
holding the Democratic Party respon
j, sible for the non-passage Of a Suffrag,
Amendment, and it's action in workin;
to defeat Democratic candidates in tn,
woman's suffrage states, a polio.
which DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. tn
National President, has condemned a
L C,t or - - o1N htoI So -1
trary to the n~on-partisan policy lon,
: since adopted by the Association.
h Several Vacancies.
e Another guarantee of excitement i
g the fact that there are several place
e on the national executive board to b
filled. 1T is hoped that Miss Jan
V Adams first vice-president. will re
consider her decision, but Miss Caro-
IS line Ruutz-Rees, third vice-presiden
n Mrs. Joseph X. Bowen, auditor. an,
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, audito,
h are quite positive that other work vii
y keep them from wen considering
nomination. Mrs. Mary Ware Den
nett, corresponding secretary, resign
ed in August and therefore will. @
course, not stand for reelection.
If the friends of the Congressiona
% Union should try to capture thes
places by assault, things would be yer
interesting. They are not likely I
ri Try, que, as bernard ShaW says, on
"a never can tell.
is DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, that sturd
"A veteran, is ready to carry on the bur
den Of the presidency, and no on
"a would seriously hin of opposing he,
There are rumOrS that Mrs. GraC
Wilbur Trout. the Illinois leader. an
- Mrs. Maud Wood Park of Massachu
If sets, will be candidates. but simila
- rumors have never failed in the pas
to be showed under by votes for d
IL Shaw.
Whatever the differences. thong
the warm sun of Southern hospitalit
will softf and mellow them. Nasf
Vile is putting its best foot forward
=, welcome the suffragists and so is Ter
neSSee.
a. The small family unpleasantnes
which arose from other cities wantin
the convention, 90, is a thing Of II
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