The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-09-08
PLAN FOR FIGHT
TO SECURE BALLOT
EVERYTHING AT ONCE
Declared That Federal Amend
ment Only Can Be Enough to
Satisfy Them.

Atlantic City, n. j., Sept. AT
ter a long debate. which carried the
afternoon session of the convention
well into the evening. the National
American Woman Suffrage associa j..
ton today adopted platform ut
lining its plan Of campaign for Sc
curing the submission of the federal
suffrage amendment to the State leg
islature for ratification.
1t was decided that the next an
nual convention in 1917 be held in
March or "thereabouts;" that a lobby
be continued at Washington and that
the association conduct a nation wide
campaign Of education, agitation, or
ganization and publicity in support
of the federal amendment. A mil
lion dollar campaign fund is to be
raised between October, this year,
and October, 1917.
1t was further agreed that no
State association shall ask the legis-
latue of it's State for tn submission
Of an amendment or referendum to
the people until the national board OF
executive council Of the association
shall have been given the opportun-
ity to investigate conditions and give
consent. Any State organization
which proceeds to such a suggestion
without consent must be prepared
to finance and conduct it's campaign
without help from the national body.
Other steps are also to he taken to
man suffrage movement.
TangIe Over Platform.
The convention got into a tangle
over the method OF considering the
platform. many parliamentary moves
being made to postpone immediate
consideration or have the numerous
items in it taken up seriatim. Init
nations were made that steam roll
Ter was being used to put the plat
form through the convention, but in
the end 1t was adopted without
amendment.
Then followed another debate on
the resolution Of President Carrie
Chapman Gait. presented yesterday,
which interprets the constitution to
mean that the submission Of the fed
eral amendment is the immediate and
principal aim of the association and
that all State work is merely prep
aration for that end.
Finally many of the delegates be-
came weary OF the long session and
when a motion was made to postpone
consideration II was quickly adopted
and the resolution was fixed for the
first order of business tomorrow
morning.
Tells of Long Fight.
The annual address of the presi-
dent was one of the features of the
days proceedings, Mrs. Gait review
ing the suffrage movement in many
States for years back. The keynote
of her speech was that "woman's
hour has struck"
The evening session was given over
TO listening to speeches by Southern
women. 1t was called "Dixie. even
ing" Speakers were Mrs. B. ]. Cum
pingham, president of the Texas Wo-
man Suffrage association; Mrs. Thorn
as Jefferson Smith. president of the
Kentucky Equal Rights association !;
Mrs. Guilford Dudley, president OF
the Tennessee Lqua. Suffrage asso-
ciation; Mrs. T. T. Gotham. vice pres
ident OF the Arkansas Woman Suf-
fIage association.
President Wilson. who will addres )
the delegates tomorrow night. will
have a guard of honor Of yellow rib
boned women as he enters the Board
Walk theatre. whore he will speak.
Every State in the Union will be re-
presented in the guard, which Will
form in two lines and salute the
president as he passes between them.
GAINS IN SOUTHEAST.