Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-10-29
1915 IS GREATEST
SUFFRAGE YEAR
-Four Big Eastern States Vote
on Issue This Fall.
PROS AND ANTS CONFIDENT

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He Will Vote For the Amendment
Gives Cheer to the Suffragsts-Na-
tionaI Association to Meet In WASH
ington In December.
This is the most important year In
the history Of the woman suffrage
movement in the United States. -Four
! big eastern states vote on the question
for the first time, and both the pro-
suffrage and anti-suffrage factions ad-
NIT that the result will be close.
New Jersey, President Wilson's ma
tive state. decides the question at the
polls on Oct. 10, and New York, Penn
sylvania and Massachusetts vote on
Nov. 2. The women who are working
so hard to secure the ballot were great
ly pleased when President Wilson an
nounced that he would vote for the
amendment and feel as II their chances
in New Jersey were tremendously
strengthened. Some Of the members
of President Wilson's cabinet have also
expressed their intention Of voting for
the amendment.
Not q National Question.
President Wilson. however. does not
favor suffrage as national issue. In
stating his position he made 1t plain
that he considered the proposition one
that should best be decided by each in
dividual state and that he would vote
for it not as president Of the United
States or leader Of his party, but as a
private citizen called upon by the leg
islature OF New Jersey to express his
opinion at the polls.
The official call for the forty-seventh
annual convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage association
lays emphasis on the progress Of the
cause, the great campaigns now draw
ing to close and the victorious efforts
being made or to be made. The con-
vention will meet in Washington Dec.
IA to 10 and is expected to draw big
delegations. especially from the states
which vote on suffrage this fall.
"In the long years Of work for equal
suffrage no year has been so crowded
with self sacrificing labor for the cause
as this and no year SO significant of
the early ultimate triumph Of woman
suffrage" says the call.
Thousands Of Women Work.
"As we issue this call four great
campaigns for equal suffrage are In
progress in four eastern states. Thou
sands of women are working indefat-
igably with voice and pen. and tens Of
thousands are contributing in time and
money to win political freedom for
women In these states. Other states
are rapidly preparing for active cam
paigns in 1916 At the same time the
national association Is putting forth
the strongest effort to win nation wide
equal suffrage through the passage of
its historic national amendment to the
constitution Of the United States.
I'VE shall come together at this our
forty annual convention larger
effort and more assured Of early sue.
cess for nation wide suffrage than ever
before, We urge our affiliated mem
Der associations to send full delega.
tons to the convention that we may
learn from each others experiences.
be inspired by the courage. sympathy
and counsel Of fellow workers and that
our mutual plans and work may be
guided by conclusions reached in full
and free conference as to their wisdom
and efficiency.
THE National American Woman Suf-
frage association is democratic body,
governed by the vote of the representa-
tives Of all Of its affiliated associations.
At its annual convention the work Of
the last year will be fully reported.
the plans and policies for the coming
year agreed upon and the leaders Of
the national association chosen for the
coming year."
The call is signed by DR.. Anna How.
ard Shaw, Mrs. Stanley Mccormick
and DR.. Katharine B. Davis Of New
York. Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers Of
New Haven, Mrs. Susan W. Fitzgerald
of Boston. Mrs. Orion H. Clark Of
Michigan. Mrs. Walter McNab Miller
of Missouri and Mrs. Medill McCOr-
mick Of Chicago.