Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
WOMEN VOTERS CONVENTION

Suffrage, convenes at the Panama-Paci
fic Exposition September ID bringing
notable women from every section OF
United States.
Under the active leadership of n Isl
Alice Paul, who was quick to see two
years ago that the fate of the unfran-
chised women of the East lay in the
hands of the Western voters, Mrs. Oil
yer H. p. Belmont, the wealthy philan-
thropist and suffragist, who is mem
ber of the executive committee of the
union, was appointed general chairman
of the western convention.
Miss Mabel Vernon of Wilmington
was of head the Delaware delegation at
the exposition.
The proposed program has just been
announced by Miss Alice Paul from the
suffrage headquarters at the exposition.
From the opening luncheon to be held
at the Inside Inn to the closing mass
demonstration in the Court of Album
dance, with Miss NJ Margare, Anglin, the
noted actress, reading a message from
Gertrude Athertan there is not phase
of this political conference that is not
arrestingly dramatic.
Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney, the
well-knowA California civic worker for
mer president of the College Equal Suf-
frage League of California, and now
chairman of the Congressional Union in
California, will welcome the delegates
to California. Mrs Fremont Older
wife of the wel-known newspaper edi-
tor, will act as toastmistress on this oc-
casion. Among the well-known suffra-
gists who will tell of the awakened SEN
timent in their section are Mrs. w. j.
Roach, New Orleans; Miss Susan p.
Frost, South Carolina; Miss Alice Paul,
Washington, D. c.; Miss Katherine
Craig, Colorado; Mrs. Margaret Zane
Cherdrun, Utah; Mrs. Mary Cachot
Therkelsen Oregon; DR.. M. NJ. Dean,
Montana; Mrs. Charles w. Kayser,
Illinois, and others.
Mrs. William Kent wife of Represen-
| IdIlNC IAGIl3 Will GHIGIldlIl lllG NlSlblllR
delegates at an out-of-door reception
and tea on the same afternoon to be
given at her beautiful kentfield home,
on the border of the great tract of an
cient redwoods which Representative
Kent, short time ago gave the state
as national park.
With Mrs. Sara Baird Field of Cali
fornia, chairman of the day. the second
day of the conference, September Is,
will be devoted to the discussion of the
history of federal suffrage work, and
its practical aspects, with Mrs. William
Kent of California, and Miss Anne Mar
tin and Miss B. NJ. Wilson of Nevada as
leaders. A reception and ball to be held
in the ballroom of the California Build
ing terminates the second day, when
Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont, general chair
man of the convention, will be hostess,
assisted by her vice-chairman and d
large committee of California women.
1t is the third day of the great confer
ence that is centering the attention OF
politicians from one end of the country
to the other who are with somo aston
ishment seeming the changed sentiment
throughout the country in regard to the
federal suffrage amendment. Miss Pau
will act as chairman of the day. Mrs
Ida Fihney Mackrille will open the
purely political discussions of this day
with a talk on party Organization and
Responsibility" Mrs. Dora Phelps
Buell. of Denver, Colo, will speak on
woman Suffrage in the National Party
Platforms" and Miss Gail Laughlin,
the brilliant woman attorney, will am
plify the Congressional Unions plan of
work during the Sixty-fourth Congress.
A mass demonstration and official
Godspeed to the elected western ENJOYS
to Washington will be held on the even
ing of this last day in the Court of
Abundance at the exposition with ex-
position, state and city officials partici-
pating, great surpliced chorus of wo-
men singing the suffrage hymns espe-
cially arranged for the occasion, and
Miss Margaret Anglin, the great ac-
tress, representing the womanhood of
the world in brief but beautiful mes
sage to the departing envoys.
The four hundred members of the
Union who are to sing in the chorus will
wear surplices of purple, white ana
gold, the colors of the union, and be as
sisted by brilliant company of women
of foreign nations, dressed in native
costumes. The song they will sing is
that song 50 well loved by the suffra-
gists of two continents, 1.-The Woman's $
March, composed by DR.. Ethel Smyth
at the height of the English militant
campaign, and sung in prison and out
of prison by the English suffragists be-
fore it was imported to America to be
used in the great pageants of Washing
ton and New York. Representatives of
all the suffrage states will also be
present to bid Godspeed to the western
delegates with representative of the
governor of California as spokesman.
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