The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-01-20

The power of the home and sustain
the dignity and sacredness of mar
riage, and we denounce as gross
SANDER the charges made by OPP
pcnents of equal suffrage that its
advocates as a class entertain opin-
ions to the contrary.
(6) Thanks and appreciation to
DR.. Shaw, the retiring president, for
her long and arduous service to the
suffrage cause, her labors and hard
ships, and her innumerable powerful
and eloquent addresses, which have
won adherents to woman suffrage
not only throughout the United
States, but also in foreign lands.
C7) Appreciation of President
Wilson's action in coming out in
favor OF equal suffrage and in stat
ing firmly and clearly his belief In
the results to be expected from It.
(8) Thanks to those helping with
the local arrangements and aiding In
making the convention success.
Both the Democratic and the Repub-
Hcan national committees were asked
ITO use their influence for suffrage
plank in their respective platforms.
One of the most interesting fea-
lftures was that of Tuesday morning,
when the session was postponed and
| in its place officers and delegates
made a pilgrimage to the Senate Of
flee building to attend the hearing
before the Senate committee on Wo-
man Suffrage, urging this commit
tee to make an early favorable re-
port on the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment.
The fruits Of this visit have just
been made evident in the announce
ment in Associated Press kilograms,
| in which it was stated that the senate
committee had reported favorably on
this amendment.
Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs was
the first to address the committee
and spoke on 1.-THE Women of the
South" Other speakers were Miss
Alice Stone Blackwell, ON the Ellis
tory of Woman Suffrage; Mrs. Car
| oline Runtz- Reese, in behalf Of the
National Association, Mrs. Harriet
Stokes Thompson, of Chicago, ON be-
half of the working women and
those engaged in teaching; Mrs. Car
RE Chapman Gait on suffrage as a
whole, Mrs. George Bass of Chicago,
on "How Women Need the Ballot In
the Business Of Being Women" and
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, of the Con-
gressional committee, who spoke for
that committee, and DR.. Shaw, who
was IN charge Of the hearing, and
who spoke briefly. The committee
also appeared before the Judiciary
committee of the House, with Mrs.
Gait at the head of the suffrage
forces, and it was at this hearing
that Mrs. Jacobs OF Alabama drew
fire from Representative Whaley of
South Carolina, when she stated that
South Carolina had no laws to pro-
test working women, and that there
is nothing there in the way of
wage hour law or an eight-hour law
for working girls. Representative
Whaley replied very sharply that he
did not believe it. Mrs. Jacobs was
entirely equal to the occasion, as may
be judged by those who heard her on
her visit to this city, and she was
aided in proving her case by Miss
Helen Todd of California, former
factory inspector of Illinois, who de-
clared that South Carolina had no
laws to protect women in factories.
The proposal that the Congress-
ional Union for Woman Suffrage be
permitted to renew its affiliation with
the National Association was defeat
ed, after spirited session. Author
ity was voted, however, for frequent
conferences between the legislative
committees of the two bodies, in
their fight before Congress for the
federal suffrage amendment. Both
DR.. Shaw and Mrs. Medill McCor-
mack, chairman of the Congressional
committee of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, vigor-
ously opposed the union. /. Mrs. Me-
Cormack said: "The national associa-
ton believes in increasing the num-