The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-10-22

to the National Suffrage Associat ton. The
principal roles are taken by Miss olive
Wyndham, Miss Katherine Kaelred, lead
ing lady in Joseph and His Brethren;
sydney Booth, of THE Yellow Ticket.
company, nephew of Edwin Booth. and
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw.
Nashville Is said to be so enthusiastic
over entertaining the convention that II
will grudge the time necessarily devoted
to business sessions. Nashville women
are arranging parade. also an old, ,
Toned barbecue at Andrew Jackson's old
home, 1.-THE Hermitage" called the Mount
Vernon of the South. There will, Of
course, be many informal dinners and
luncheons during the convention. ana an
afternoon tea at one of the beautiful
country clubs. ON one evening the sur
fragists in charge of the press work
throughout the country will dine and dis
cuss plans for the coming year. Another
evening the professional women at the
convention will meet at dinner. The pro-
fessional woman's dinner arranged by Dr.
Eliza Taylor Ransom, of Boston, during
last years Washington convention, was
great success, the guests including many
of the bestknown ministers, doctors and
LAWYERS in the United States.
but Il is not so much the special events
which make a convention interesting as
II is the general comra6eship and inter-
change of ideas among women from all
parts of the country engaged In all kinds
of work. The women of the north and
west are especially interested in the MANY
brilliant Southern women who are giving
their time and energies so fully to wom-
an suffrage. Among these women are:
-Virginia--Mrs. Lila Mead Valentine, Rich
mond, President of the Virginia Equal
Suffrage Association; Miss Ellen Glas-
gov, Richmond; Miss Mary Johnston.
Ter Barrett Alexandria, Virginia, North
Carolina--Mrs A. Henderson. Chapel Hill,
President Of the Equal FRANCHISE League;
Susanna Bynum, Charlotte. South Caro-
iina-Mrs. NJ. T. Coleman, Abbevlle.
President of the Equal Suffrage League;
Mrs Henry Ma harsst o0iu9 Georeia ss su
Mary McI.endon. Atlanta, President OF
Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association:
Mrs. Emily MeDougald, Atlanta, Presi-
s, Whiteside. Atlanta. Florida-Mrs
Roselle c. Cooley. Jacksonville, President
OF Equal Franchise. Association: Rev
Woman Suffrage Associations; Miss Fran
reg Anderson. Jacksonville. Alabama
Mrs. Pattie Jacobs. Birmingham, Presi-
dent of Equal suffrage ASSOCIATION; MIS-.
stern, Montgomery. Mississippii-Mrs.
Annie K Dent, Yazoo City. President of
Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Nellie
line Orr, Jacksonville. Tennessee-Miss
Maria Thompson Daviess, Nashville; Miss
Sarah Barnwsll Elliott ,t,us sewanee; Mrs
Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, Lexington,
President of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Associa ton: Miss Laura Clay, Richmond;
Mrs. James Leech, Louisville. Louisiana
Miss Kate Gordon New orleans, Presi-
dent of the Southern States Woman Suf-
frage Conference; Miss Jean Gordon. New
Orleans, President of the Louisiana Wom-
an Suffrage Associations: Mrs. Edgar NJ
Calm. New Orleans. Miss Annette Fin
negar, Houston. President of Texas Wom-
an Suffrage Associations; Miss Eleanor W.
Brack enridge, San Antonio: Mrs. Hor-
tense Ward, Dallas; Mrs. Guilford Dud-
ley, Nashville
The rapid growth of the Southern or
both in members and enthu-
siasm is alone sufficient to contradict the
prediction, which used to be frequently
made, that the South would never en-
dorse votes for women. In fact. 1t was
said at Washington last year
that the presence of so many charming
alert Southern women was the most in
spiring thing about the Convention
Nashville itself, as well as the organized
of Tennessee, is prepared to
give o 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 |
iicers, the Chamber of Commerce, the |
newspapers are all cooperating to fur |
nish a warm welcome to the Convention. '
The program for the Convention Is In 4
charge of the following COMMITTEES: DR. |
Anna Howard Shaw, Moylan, Pa, chair |
man; Mrs. Mary Ware bennett. sos Fifth I
lev Mccormick. Boston; Mrs. Ida Clyde |
clarke Nashville; Miss Jean Gordon, New
Orleans; Miss Elnor Byrns, New York.
Mrs Ernest 'Thompson-Seton, OF Con-
necticut, is the National chairman OF lo- |
aai arrangements, and Mrs. John N. Ken
nv, OF Nashville, is Tenpessee's chairman
II local ARA ngements. Convention head |
quarters will be at the Hermitage EoteL l