Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-13
SIxTY-FTvE SUFFRAGE
LEAGUES REPRESENTED
AT NATIONAL CAPITAL
Nearly 1000 Delegates Attend
ing Convention Will Press
Congress for Amendment
to Constitution
HUGE PAGEANT STAGED
500 Persons Take Part in Tableaux
Showing Progress of Votes-for-
Women Crusade

WASHINGTON. Dec. 13-The National
American Woman Suffrage Association
opened its annual convention here today
close upon the adjournment of the annual
convention of the Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage. The two conven-
tlons of the leading votes-for-women or
ganizations of the United States are Civ
ing Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress not n moments peace for two
week period
Both organizations are bent on inducing
Congress to adopt n resolution authoriz-
ing a Constitutional amendment provid-
ing equal suffrage for men and women
The Congressional Union has given up
State campaigning to devote its entire
time to harrying Congress. The National
American Woman Suffrage Association Is
working both lines, State and Federal so
that the convention today had before 1t
series of business meetings and confer
ences of leaders at which plans of cam
paign In both the State and Federal fields
are to be formulated for the next year
Nearly thousand delegates were pres
ent when DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, prest-
dent of the association, opened the con-
vention. The association is made up of
IS federated suffrage leagues. from all
States In the Union, and each organiza-
tion is represented at the National con-
vention
BIG MASs-MEBTING PLANNED.
Today's session was largely routine. In
fact this association will hold only busi-
ness sessions throughout the entire week.
The only spectacular event will be
mass-meeting next Sunday. At this meet
ing Or. Anna Howard Shaw VIII speak
on the progress of the woman suffrage
cause Other speakers of national note
will be Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait,
former president of the association and
the woman who has been responsible for
some of the most successful woman suf-
frage demonstrations held In New York
city.
Next Saturday the National College
Equal Suffrage League, of which MISS
NJ Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr, is pres
ident, will hold it's annual council meet
ing This league is federated with the
national association and always holds its
annual council meeting during the ma
tional associations convention.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY PAGEANT.
Turning aside from their usual meth
cds of using speeches and statements to
advance their cause. the would-be women
voters of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage today staged new
argument in the form of pageant.
The pageant. presented by Miss Hazel
MacKaye under the auspices of the Cor
gressiona Union, was planned to depict
in vivid style the struggles of American
women for the ballot. 1t also was a me-
mortal to Susan B. Anthony, pioneer IN
suffrage work.
Five hundred men, women and children
took part in the performance, which was
presented in Convention Hall before n
large audience The tableaux and other
performances in the pageant pictured the
parallel between the struggle made by
the negroes of the United States and that
now being made by the American women.
First were shown tableauX and spectacles
portraying the negroes effort to be en-
franchised by action of the States. How
they failed in this purpose was shown
and then how they turned to Congress and
finally succeeded in getting equal voting
rights with white men through a constitu-
tional amendment.