The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-08
WOMEN HAVE MANY
VEx|NG PROBLEMS
They Are Going to Nashville
Fully Determined to
Settle Them.
METHODS ARE AT STAKE
Suffragists Must Decide What
Course to Pursue in Flu
turc Campaigning.
METHODS ARE AT STAKE

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! tional association In fortythrec states
would. they say, never consider leaving
! their homes. and In many cases their
| important work, merely to ainusc
! them selves. To meet their friends and
enjoy southern hospitality, nor yet to
argue the merits OF woman suffrage.
| They will travel TO Nashville primarily
because winning the vote has become
q highly specialized business needing
| experts i'm every line, and these cN
pcrts can learn much from one
another.
! From the time the executive council
| goes into conference AZ the Hermitage
| Hotel on the morning Of November u
until after the final board meeting on
| November is tho business of the nsso-
| citation Will lie paramount; 10 every
other consideration. The delegate who
is unwilling to sit through three SEES
sions Of the convention each day. At
| tend conferences until In the morn
! Ing and begin answering the telephone
AT 4 Will be considered a mere trificT.
| Or. Anna Howard Shaw, the ma tional
| president. liz popularity supposed not to
! sleep at all during convention week.
| and she does hcr best to keep tho dele
| gates from wasting valuable moments.
/ one Massachusetts, woman on her
| way home last year. signed:
| "Its been n great convention. hut
| wish hadn't had new evening dress
1
| pack, much less wear. IL.
CONVENTION PROGRAM
SOUNDS VERY HARMLESS
The convention program sounds
harmless enough. with reports OF the
| congressional committee the executive
| secretary and the press bureau, a dis
| cussion OF the National Suffrage Pub
| fishing Company, the vote on the con-
stitutional amendments and the cleo
| tion OF officers; but every ono who
has ever been to a suffrage convention
knows that all of these dull topics
will be dramatized into live issues
when such women az Jane Adams,
| Mrs. Desha breckenridge and Miss
| Laura CLAY OF Kentucky: Miss Kate
Gordon. OF New Orleans: NJ. Carey
/ Thomas. president Of Bryn Mawr. Mrs.
Grace Wilbur Trout and Mrs. Catherine
Waugh McCulloch. OF Illinois; Mrs
| Maude Wood Park, OF Boston,; Miss
Hannah Patterson, OF Pennsylvania;
MrA. Donald r. Hooker. of Raltimore:
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Rlatch and Mrs.
Q. H. y. Belmont. of New York. get the
floor
What shall the national association
do? Shall it devote itself entirely to
| securing Federal amendment. or shall
| 1t consider congressional work mt the.
1 present time chiefly as good publicity
| and put the emphasis on helping the
! state campaigns by serving as n clear,
ing house Tor Information. literature.
speakers and ideas on organization
! the national association. in order to
further it's interests. send workers into
| the States whenever il wishes to raise
| money and influence legislators"
| Up to this time, the national asso-
| citation always has worked in the States
only with the cooperation and consent
OF the states presidents. The Con
started by Miss Alice Paul and Miss
Lucy Burns last year, when they were
IT the head OF the congressional COM
mlttce of the national association. be-
| lievcs in working in any state even ir
| the state Suffrage Association disap-
| proves.
! This difference OF opinion was one
F, reason why Miss Lucy Burns refused
| TO serve on this years congressional
committee Of the national association
| II is also one reason why the exec
utive COMMITTEES of the national as
! ISOLATION refused 10 admit the Con-
| Sressional Union as an auxiliary TO
| the national.
How these questions will be pre-
scented to the delegates is uncertain.
! Mccormick. of Chicago. chairman OF
the congressional committee. reads her
reports. They probably will not be
settled until the new board is elected.
! II the delegates think clearly. the
personnel of the board will reflect their
attitude on the whole subject OF con-
| gressionai amendment work, the atti
tude of the national association toward
parties. and the attitude OF the national
toward the State associations. which
arc it's branches.
DIR. SHAW EXPECTED
TO TAKE NOMINATION
! DIR. Shaw will, il is assumed. accept
the nomination for the presidency.
without considering her own inclina-
/ lions. When Susan u. Anthony was
dying, Dr. Shaw promised her to serve
the national association in any way
/ it called upon her. and she has, ever
/. since 1904. been reelected president.
Or. Shaw undoubtedly can carry the
election this year, even if Mrs. Grace
| Wilper Trout. of Chicago, and Mrs.
Maud Wood Park. of Boston, should be
persuaded to run against her
she will have. Will the delegates elect
national officers who will be so in SYM
Viii appoint Miss Paul and Miss Rurns
on the congressional committee of the
that to Committee full power to o' do rs It
Judge Il only by results. ThIs would
committee would work i'm tho States in
whatever manner they desired. ire
ganization work. It would also mean
that the congressional committee would
oppose t the pemocra ,,,, party BECAUSE
{. am endment to the Constitution of the
United states.
It seems unlikely that this will hap
pen. for very few suffragists. even the
most ardent admirers of Miss Paul and
Miss ssarn wK to h ,hsfr thsr
sent. and the policy of. opposition to
the Democratic party is being attacked
by suffragists everywhere. but espe-
| ciaIly by those in the equal suffrage
| States and the suffrage campaign
States.
The alternative of surrounding DIR.
Shaw. with board who approve OF
She believes in and those the national
association has up to this time in
dorsed. is for tho delegates to elect a
board which will work for IL Federal
| amendment without conflicting with
the state campaigns, and who will
promise to adhere TO II nonpartisan
policy. In that case. next years con-
gressionnl COMMITTEES, would have to
submit to the restraints nut upon II by
the board, just as Mrs. Medili Mc(,or-
mick's committee has done this year.