Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-04
SUFFRAGE HEAD
TO SPEAK HERE
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, Famous
Woman Orator, Will Be in
Bismarck Sept. 18.

r NEHsNA#s s---
/. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw will speak
in Bismarck on Friday, September
Is, arriving in the city at 2.57 p. m
me coming OF the noted head of the
natiraal suffrage association is ere
atins much interest and it is expect
ed that the meeting in Bismarck will
be n of the best attended of the
tour, which Is attracting state wide
attention. So great has been the in.
terest manifested that DR.. Shaw will
give q number of platform addresses
from the train.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw is the fore.
most orator of the suffrage move,
lnent in America, if not the world.
She has spoken in nearly every coun-
Try on the globe and has been the re
c.pient OF unusual honors everywhere
A master of the art of speaking, she
Will carry her. audience through the
gamut Of emotions during an hours
talk. Witty, yet sympathetic, she
tears down the barriers of prejudice
and precedent and forces home the
elementary truths of her cause. She
pleads for every interest that will
better the conditions of women, but
chiefly for suffrage as the fundamen-
tai step in all reforms, economic, So
cial and legal.
DR.. Shaw is an English woman by
birth, although, since early childhood
her life has been spent in America.
In the days when women received
little more instruction than in the
three RS DR.. Shaw studied at Albion
college, Michigan; then in spite of
the ~pleadings of her family and
friends she determined to be a minis
ter. Her eloquence as a public
speaker led the district conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church of
which she was a member to grant
her a local preachers license, which
was annually renewed for eight years.
In 1875 she entered the theological
department OF the Boston University
from which she graduated with hon
ors IN 1873. During the last year OF
her course she was pastor Of the
First M. e. church Of Hingham,
Mass, and her second pastorate was
with the Methodist church of East
Dennis, on Cape Cod where she re-
NAMED seven years. For six years
Of that time sshe also supplied the
congregational church Of Dennis. Al
though she passed the best examina-
ton of any candidate, she was re-
fused ordination because she was a
women by the New England Metho-
dist conference. Her case was again
refused by the conference at Cincin-
natl in 1880. She then supplement-
ed her theological decree by one in
medicine at tau Boston University.
Then finding that the great reforms
for which she desired could only be
brought about effectively by the bal
lot in the hands Of wo,nen as we'll as
men, as national superintendent of
franchise Of the w. C. T. u. she con-
tinued to speak for suffrage for TWEEN
ty years. In 1904 she was elected
president Of the national association
and has seen it grew from a small
body Of enthusiastic women to a
great army.
Possessed Of a wonderful vitality,
never failing hu!nor and hopefulness,
she is always ready to meet the con-
demands upon her time and en-.
ergy. Her campaign in North Dako-
ia promises to be one of the most
successful of the year and arrange.
menus are being made for addresses
from the platform of the train 50
that the greater part of the state wiz
be able to hear of suffrage from the
lips of the pioneer worker who lee.
tured in this state twenty years ago.