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

vention 10 speak for suffrage were
Mrs. Virginia D. Young, president Of
the South Carolina Suffrage Assoc!9
ton; Miss Frances f. Griffin, presi
dent of the Alabama Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, and Mrs. Claudia Howard
! Maxwell, Mrs. Gertrude g. ThontaE
and Mrs. |. W. Parks, OF Georgia, And
the meeting was held In the hah Of
| the House Of representatives.. al
though the Governor had refused 10
| permit the officers OF the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa
tlon TO hold meeting in ite sacred
precints, because. he declared, at
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
| times with the help Of the Rev. Ana
| Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapm IN
| Gait and Miss Laura Ciay-the last
I
1 Georgia women. II Is no trouble for
I the program committees TO get ma
| tlve-born men and women to spea <
out In fav.r of woman suffrage now
adays, and they are fiOcking In to Join
| the greatest movement for the uplift
Of humanity that has been known in
the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turtles
The first effort made by the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association for the
cnfranchisement Of women was In
1895. Mr.. Charles A. Read member
Of the Atlanta Equal Suffrage Assoc
citation, auxiliary to the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association, formn-
lated a bill asking that the word male
be eliminated from the Constitution,
It was presented by the State presi-
dent and members Of the Atlanta
Equal Suffrage Association. Nothing
was ever heard from II, and In 189S-99
similar attempts were made, but sig
nally failed. as no man could be found
to father the bill.
In 1903 Hon. Claude Payton, OF
Worth County, Georgia. introduced
the bill in the House to add and fe-
male" after the word male" but 1t
never lief, the committee room. In
Igll-i8l2 MIR. Peyton again offered a
bill to the same effect, but It became
the butt Of ridicule with the commit
tee to which ii was referred and new
or appeared for second reading. No
otAar man has made an effort to help
IN. women to get where they can
help themselves. In 1894 the w. c.
r. u. with the suffragists OF Atlanta.
with petitions appeared before the
City Council of Atlanta and asked
that the department OF police matron
be created with appropriate salary
This request was never complied with
until 1898 Then the State Euffrage
Association sent q petition to the
Legislature asking for a police ma
iron in every city In Georgia OF 10000
or more inhabitants This petition
was ignored by the Legislature be-
cause the petitioners werh all women.
out what pTopnrflaH III he taxes al
the State vas levied on the pT0peTtIaG
Of the wemaR OF Georgia,
The ssm@!ssss found Il sA be 70
per cent. Bills and resolutions were
pressed on the attention Of the LegiS-
lators in 1898: To exempt the prop
erty OF women from taxation until
they are permitted to vote. claiming
that taxation without representation
ceded to be In 1776; also to raise the
age OF consent from 10 years TO IS;
and again a bill for police matrons
in cities of 10000 or more inhabitants.
We have asked continually that the
University of GeorSP be opened to
women
We have asked continuously that
women become members of the
boards of education: that women
be placed on the staff of physicians
of the State Lunatic Asylum; that
women be 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 o-guardlans with their
husba nds OF their minor children; that
women be permitted to be notaries
public: that girls of Is be permitted
TO enter the textile department of the
State Technological School
We have begged time and again for
a decent child labor law and 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 to the women who have
only the right of petition in Georgia,
except that woman physician has
been admitted as a member of the
STAFF OF physicians in the State Lu-
matte Asylum, and last year mothers
We're made guardians with their
husbands of their minor children,
Women can now serve as notaries
public.
The age OF protection bill intro
duced by Representative c. s. Reid
December Is, 1909, was defeated by
II yeas. II nays. The w, G. I. U.
and suffrage women requested Mr..
Reid to move for reconsideration on
November 16, and il resulted in the
bin being voted down by larger
majority than the day before. Mr..
Reid thought it we'll that his bill was
defeated, since 1t only asked that the
age OF consent be raised from 10 20
~ years. The suffragists asked that
II be raised 10 Is years, and the w.
G.. r. 4. to 81 years.
In 1918 Hon. r. Il. Blackburn intro
duced a bill to raise the age of con-
sent 60 II years. 1t was referred to
its friends. Representative Black
burn and Wright who were in favor
of raising II to II. The bill To admit
girls of is to the textile department
of the archaeological School was read
twice in the House. but never again"