The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-21
POLITICAL MOGULs THERE
President and Mrs. Wilson Were There
and Suffrage President Describes
Gown Of First Lady Of Land
Important Things Done.

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tical world court our favor now,' said
Mrs. Henry M. Youmans, president of
the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Associ-
alton on her return from the national
suffrage convention at Atlantic City.
s For the first time in history presi-
dent of the United States left Washing
ton to make an address at a suffrage
convention. Mr.. Wilson spoke Friday
evening. He was accompanied by Mrs.
| Wilson and the usual coterie Of secret
service men. He came early and re-
manned the whole evening listening to
addresses, which if not directly on the
| topic of woman suffrage all had a
strong tinge of woman suffrage. He
was most cordially received. When he
said definitely that he had come to At
lantic City to. help us in our fight there
| was a great wave of enthusiasm and
when he said again { have not come
to ask you to be patient because you
have been patient, but / come to en-
courage you, because there is a force
behind you which will be triumphant
and because Of which you can afford a
little while to wait, the audience
again went wild with enthusiasm. The
climax of the evening came few min
utes later when DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw, honorary. president of the ma
tional, looking straight at the president
said, We have waited long enough to
get the vote, we want it now. / want
it to come during your administration, I
Mr.. Wilson smiled with some appear
ance of self-consciousness at DR..
Shaw's appeal.
She Wore Orchid and Ruffles.
eff any sufragist be frivolous
enough to desire to know how Mrs Will
son was dressed on this momentous oc-
casion | will be frivolous enough to tell
her that the first lady Of the land wore
an evening gown of white tulle, the
| skirt in four plated ruffles and the
bodice of irridescent scales. A beauti-
ful lavender orchid gave the color note.
Raymond Robbins Of Chicago, one
of Charles E. Hughes lieutenants and
Herbert Parsons of New York who de-
scribed himself as an every day ma
chine Republican politician, also gave
addresses to the convention, and the
secretary of war, Newton .. Baker.
was expected but not able to come. A
good deal of partisan pressure was
brought to bear apon the convention
without effect. It steered straight
course of -partisanship and every
woman present returned to her home
with the feeling that she might sup
port her fayorite candidate without i'm
plnglng on her loyalty. to the national.
Pledge 100000 in Hour.
"A campaign fund Of more than
100000 was pledged in a., hour. Miss
Mary G. Hay of New York, serving as
money raiser. Her own state of New
York led off with quarter Of a million.
Pennsylvania followed with $125O9O.
Massachusetts and Ohio also gave large
sums and there was no state in The
! union from which some contribution
was not pledged. Amoag Individual
contributions from Wisconsin were
5000 for tie national and 500 for the
Dr. Anna Shaw annuity fund from Mrs.
George p. Miller, Milwaukee,: 500
from Mrs. A. K. Taylor, Milwaukee:
and 500 from Mrs. Ben Hooper, Osh-
kosh.''
Captain TuttIe's Daughter There.
Being tyro in national convention
proceedings said Miss Harriet Balm
who was Wisconsin delegate to the
convention, q member of the executive
committee and appointed 6 place on
the resolutions committee, 81 spoke
only once from the convention floor.
but when I was recognized by the
chair as Miss Balm of Wisconsin, , the
name meant something to woman
near me. When / sat, she INQUIRED if
were daughter of Lewis Balm of
Kenosha, and introduced herself as
Mrs. NJ. L. Benedict of Vermont. a
daughter of Captain futile of Camp
Lake, Wis, well known all through this
county in an earlier day. She seemed
interested in her girlhood's home and
asked me to mail copies of the Evening
News to her, especially when suffrage
news was given.
'sThe convention decided upon the
policy of remaining non-partisan and of
working for the federal amendment
and also doing energetic work in every
promising campaign state.
"The national platform adopted has
very much strengthened the prestige of
the national, giving it more authority
and thus tending to produce greater
solidarity and unanimity of movement
among the state associations and get