The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-09
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 OF CERTAIN VICTORY
President Gets Warm Greeting at National Convention In Atlantic City y-Appauded as He Tells Delegates That Movement Is Not Social Unrest and That They Have Been Patient and Can Afford to Wait Little Whe

Atlantic City. Sept s-Rresident Wilson spoke to the TOO delegates to the Emergency Convention of the Ma tional American Woman Suffrage As- sociation and about j2.000 of their guests, mostly women, in the New Nixon theatre on the Boardwalk last night.
 His address was simple. short and full of earnest feeling. It contained three, sentences which filled the big auditorium with the huttering yellow banners of Suffrage and the cheers and handclapping of the vote crusad- CTS. These sentences were:
 "It (Sufrage) is going to prevail, and, that is a very superficial and ig- norant view of it which attributes it to mere social unrest"
 T hardly know how to copduct myself when I have not come (to At lantic City) to fight against anybody. but with somebody"
 "Is have felt as I sat here tonight the wholesome contagion of the occa- sion,
 Again Applaud the President.
 The President expressed another sentiment that made the white haired officers of the Association, sitting with him on the stage, stand up and wave their handkerchiefs. It was apparent they felt it referred to the proposed Federal amendment. E T have come to suggest, among other things that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide Is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to it's flood. We feel the tide, we rejoice in the strength of it and we shall not quarrel in the long run as to the method of it..''
 Then, as the closing sentence of the address, the President, yet with a deep seriousness that held his auditors silent a few moments before they rose in the last great ovation. not quite as long but certainly as heartfelt as had been the first outburst of welcome which lasted two full minutes, said: q have not come to ask you to be patient, because you have been., but I have come to congratulate you that there was a force behind you that will beyond any preadventure be tri- umphant and for which you can af- ford little while to wait"
 Four Other Speakers The President and Mrs. Wilson had sat on the left of the stage while four speeches were made. The speakers were Mrs. Raymond Robins. wife of the Progressive leader of Chicago, whose motions to pledge Suffragists to support. only those candidates for National office who have indorsed the Federal amendment, was almost un- snimosuly showed under earlier in the
 day; Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the
 National ,Children's Brueau; Wash ington; Katharine Bomont Davis
 Parole Commissioner, New York, and Dr. Owen I-ovejoy.
 The Presidential party had arrived from Shadow Lawn at 5:45. Four thousand persons who waited outside the station for two hours, welcomed
 the President with continuous cheer ing. They were restrained by a cor
 don of 100 police under Chief of Po-
 lice Robert O. Miller.
 ] The President and Mrs. Wilson ar rived at the theatre from the Hotel Traymore at s:27 o'clock. They walk ed upon the stage from a side door on Delaware Avenue between a lane of
 forty-eight women representing the
 States-a guard of honor.
 AppIauded for Two Minutes | The throng which damned the
 roomy theatre to capacity already
 had applauded for one minute and a l half under an erroneous impression
 that the President had arrived. When
 he and Mrs. Wilson did walk upon the stage the cheering and waving of
 handkerchiefs and Suffrage colors
 was continuous for two minutes. Ii
 would have lasted longer if the Presi- dent'had not bowed. smiled and start | ed to seat himself and Mrs. Wilson. | The President Speech, which omitted partisan politics, could not I have come at a more opportune mo- ment so far as the internal affairs of the association and the convention are concerned. The fight led by Mrs. IL: I.t