Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-04

] convention held in Atlanta. The WON
4 en- who came TO this first State con-
yention To speak for suffrage were
| Mrs. Virginia u. Young, president Of
/ the South Carolina Suffrage Associa-
I ton; Miss Frances f. Griffin, presi-
I cent Of the Alabama Suffrage AS
! ISOLATION, and Mrs Claudia Howard
! Maxwell. Mrs. Gertrude c. Thomas
and Mrs. l. ". Parks. OF Georgia. and
: the meeting was held in the hall IF
| the House of Representatives. al
! though the Governor had refused to
/ permit the officers OF the National
! American Woman Suffrage Associa-
| ton TO hold a meeting in its sacred
| precints, because he declared, ct
/ 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
| V. Calvin Of Richmond County. with
out any trouble, had 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
Howard Shaw. Mrs. Carrie Chapm IN
Gait and Miss Laura Clay last
one In 1918, and the speakers were al
Georgia women. II is no trouble for
the program committees to get ma
tive born men and women to SPEAK
out In fayor of woman suffrage now
adays, and they are 1ocking In TO join
the greatest movement for the uplift
Of humanity that has been known n
the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turtles.
The first effort made by the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association for the
enfranchsement Of women was In
1895 Mr. Charles A. Read. a member
OF the Atlanta Equal Suffrage Assoc
citation, auxiliary to the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association. formu-
lated bill asking that the word male
be 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 iS9s-s9
similar attempts We're made, but sig
nally failed. rs no man could be found
to father the bill
In 1908 Hon Claude Payton, of
Worth County, Georgia. introduced
the bill in the House TO add and fe-
male" after the word male but II
never left the committee room. In
19Il-l912 Mr. Peyton again offered
bill 10 the same effect. but II became
the butt Of ridicuie with the commit
tee TO which il was referred and new
er appeared fof second reading. No
Otaar man has made an effort TO help
III women 10 get where they can
help themselves. IN 1894 the W. G.
e A tfag fg
with petitions appeared before the
City Council OF Atlanta and asked
that the depa rtment OF police matron
be created with appropriate salary.
This request was never complied with
until 1898 Then the state Eufrage
Association sent u petition to the
Legislature asking for police ma
tron in every city in Georgia of 10000
or more inhabitants, This petition
was ignored by the Legislature be
cause the petitioners were all women.
A committee was appointed TO find
out what proportion Of the taxes of
the State was 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 Legts-
lators in 1898: To exempt the prop
erty OF women from taxation until
they are permitted to vote, claiming
that taxation without representation
is tyranny in 1898 as il was con-
ceded To be in 1915; also to raise tho
age OF consent from 10 years 10 IS:
and again a bill for police matrons
in cities of IA 900 or more inhabitants,
We have asked continually that the
University of Georgia be opened to
women.
We have asked continuously that
women become members OF tine
boards Of education; that women
be placed on the stan Of physicians
Of the State T4unatic Ayslumi thai
women he made eligible to the office
Of president Of the Georgia Normal
and Industrial College. We have
begged that women be permitted TO
practice law in Georgia, that mothers
be made CO. guardians with their
husbands of their minor children, that
women he permitted 10 be notarles
public that girls of rs he permitted
to enter the textile department OF the
State archaeological School.
We have begged time and again for
q decent child labor Law and "A 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 60 the women who have
only the right of petition in Georgia,
except that o woman physician mas