The Washington herald., 1914-11-12
SUFFRAGE FORCES
FACE TWO FIGHTS
Effort TO Be Made to Gust DR..
Shaw from Presidency at
Nashville Convention.
OPPOSED IN THE WEST
Support of Shafroth or BristOw-
Mondell Amendment Also to
Be Decided.
OPPOSED IN THE WEST

! Nashville, Nov. 1.-two big fights in
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association doomed up today as delegates
began gathering here for the forty-sixth
annual convention.
One Is the determination Of the delega-
tions from many Western and Central
States 10 oust DR.. 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 Shafroth
amendment to the Federal Constitution
or the Bristow- -Mondell amendment.
The Illinois delegation, headed by Mrs
Grace Wilbur Trout. president of the
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. may
be the deciding factor in both struggles.
All the members are pledged to support
candidate against DR.. Shaw. and they
will all work and vote for the Shafroth
amendment.
May Nominate Mrs. Trout.
Some Of the Illinois women may nomi-
nate Mrs. Trout for DR.. Shaw's place,
although Mrs. Trout declared today she
would not under any circumstances ac-
cept the nomination. They hope they can
change. her decision, however. In case
they fail, Miss Anne Martin. of Nevada,
may be put in the field. and should that
situation develop a deadlock, Mrs. Desha
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, is likely TO
be put forward as a compromise candi-
date.
Supporters Of the shafroth amendment
are depending for success largely upon
the attitude of the women OF the South.
They are said to be strongly against sub
mitting the question of their right to
vote to the negroes, as the Bristow-Mon-
dell proposal would entail.
DR.. Shaw and the Eastern contin-
gent favor the Shafroth amendment.
but the Westerners say 1t will take
as much work at Washington to get
that through Congress, as it win the
Bristow- -MondeIl 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-MondeI amendment more
easily than they can educate the whole
people.
Both Propositions Approved.
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-
ecutive council took the propositions
up again tonight, but formulated no
recommendations to the whole asso-
citation.
Among the prominent suffragists al
ready here are Gen" Rosalie Jones'
the hiker; Miss NJ. Carey Thomas, pres
ident Of Bryn Mawr College; Mrs. Err
nest Thompson-Seton. Connecticut;
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of
the Woman's Journal, the Official or
gan Of the National Association; Mrs.
Raymond 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 automobile trip TO
The Hermitage" former home of
President Andrew Jackson, where an
old-fashioned Southern barbecue din
ner was served.
The first formal sessions of the con-
yention will be held tomorrow.