The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-12
Determined ATTEMPT
T00UsT DR.. anna SHAW
Sufrragists From Western aud Cen.
trial States Plan Her Defeat
as President.
TWO BIG FIGHTS EXPECTED
National Association Is Divided as to
Whether II Shall Support ShafrotI,
Amendment to Federal Constitu-
ton or Bristow.AiondeIi Plan.
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NASHVILLE. TENN. November Ill
Two big lights in the National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage Association
doomed up as delegates began gather
Ing here for the forty sixth annual
convention of that organization
. One Is the determination Of the dele
cation from many of the Western
States to GUST DIR. Anna Howard Shaw
from The presidency, which She has
held for ten years.
The other Is the question OF whether
the association shall support the Shat
roth amendment TO the Federal Con-
stitution or the Bristow- Aiondell
amendment
The Illinois delegation, headed by
Mrs Grace Wilbur Trout. president Of
ton, may be the deciding factor In both
struggles All the members are
pledged TO support a candidate against
Or. Shaw, and they will all work and
vote for the Shafroth amendment.
MRS. TROUT DOES NOT
WANT NOMINATION
Some Of the Illinois women may
place, although Mrs. Trout declared to-
DAY she would not, under any circum-
stances. accept the nomination. They
nope they can change her decision,
however. In case they fall, Miss Anne
Martin. OF Nevada. may be put in the
deadlock, Mrs. DeSha Breckenridge,
of Kentucky. Is likely to be put for
ward as compromise candidate.
The Shafroth amendment is q
straight, unqualified amendment to the
Federal Constitution eliminating sex as
qualification for suffrage, and need
Ing the ratification OF thirty-sx State
Legislatures after It passes both houses
OF Congress by three-fourths vote.
The Bristow- Mondell proposition is an
amendment TO the Federal Constitu-
ton permitting the submission by an
initiative and referendum petition Of
per cent OF the legal voters Of any
State, the question of permitting wo-
men to vote, to the entire electorate Of
the State. and If a majority favors
women voting, they shall then receive
iull Suffrage In that State, any exist
ing bar in the State Constitution not
withstanding.
Supporters OF the Shafroth amend
ment are depending for success largely
upon the attitude of the women of the
South. They are said to be strongly
against submitting the question of
their right to vote to tho negroes, as
the Bristow-Nfondell proposal would
entail.
DR.. Shaw and the Eastern contingent
favor the Shafroth amendment, but the
Westcrners say it will take as much
work at Washington to get that
through Congress as 1t will the Bris-
tow-Mondell plan. and that when it is
passed they have nothing but the right
TO appeal to the whole mass OF the
voters. They figure they can swing
the Legislatures to ratify the Bristow-
Mondell amendment moro easily than
they can educate the whole people.
NO RECOMMENDATION
ARE FORMULATED
At an informal conference this morn
Ing. supposed to be a meeting of the
executive council. but attended by less
than a score OF delegates, and domi-
mated by DR.. Shaw's followers, both
propositions were approved. The ex-
ccutivc council took the propositions
UP again tonight, but formulated no
recommendations to the whole associa-
ton.
Among the prominent suffragettes that
arc here arc General" Resale Jones,
the mixer: Miss NJ. Carey Thomas
president OF Bryn Mawr College; Mrs.
Ernest Thompson Seton. Connecticut;
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of
the Woman's Journal, the official organ
OF the national associations; Mrs Ray
mond Brown. president OF the New
York. State Association, and Mrs. Glen
dover Evans, of Boston, interested In
labor reforms
This afternoon the delegates were
entertained by an auto trip to The
| Hermitage" former home Of Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson, where an old
fashioned Southern barbecue dinner
was served
The first formal sessions of the con-
vention Will be held tomorrow.