Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-09
PROMISES SUPPORT
IN SUFFRAGE FIGHT
President Predicts Triumph for
Cause in Little
While"
NO REFERENCE TO METHOD
Thousands Of Women Stand and
Cheer Declaration of Chief
Magistrate.
NO REFERENCE TO METHOD


ATLANTIC CITY. y J.. September
S-Triumph for the woman suffrage
cause lin little while" was pre-
night in speech before the annual
convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association.
Il have come here to night with you
the President declared immediately
the 5000 women present stood aDd
cheered. a few minutes later Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw. honorary president of tho
association. with Mr. Wilson still pres
ent, declared; I'VE have waited long
enough to get the vote We want it
now. ! want it to come during your
administration" Again tho great audi
ence Of women stood and cheered
waving handkerchiefs.
The Presidents pledge of support TO
the suffrage question caused Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait. president of .he
after he closed:
You touched our hearts and won
our fealty when YOU said YOU had come
TO fight with us
The President did not speak on the
method by which he would bring about
woman suffrage. but said: we Shall
not quarrel in the long run as to tho
me hod''
WOMEN FAIL TO MENTION
QUESTION or METHOD
The women in their speeches also
failed 10 mention the question OF
! method.
The President, with Mrs. Wilson.
listened to several addresses. and fears
expressed before the meeting that he
might be "heckled'' were not realized
AT the conclusion of his address Mrs
Gait thanked him for speaking
Mr.. Wilson aroused the greatest en-
thuSiasm when he said whenever he
had come To Atlantic City previously
he had come TO fight against nobody.
hut that on his present trip he had
come to fight with somebody"
The meeting came to an end with
the President and Airs Wilson stand
! ing between suffrage leaders. joining
! in singing patriotic songs.
| In his address the President did not
! mention his previously expressed belief
| that suffrage should come through
! action bv the states.
! Speaking of the future of the move
ment. he declared that the tide was
rising and would come to its hood.
The President talked for fifteen
minutes just the time occupied by the
other speakers.
ONLY FEW MEN PRESENT
At SUFFRAGE GATHERING
J The theater was packed with women,
only a few men being present. Mrs
! Carrie Chapman Gait. president of the
! suffrage association, presided, and DR..
Anna shaw. the honorary president.
sat next her. The speak kers. in addition
! 10 the President. were Mrs. Raymond
| Robins. wife of the Illinois Progressive
! leader; Miss Julia Lathrop. chief OF the
Federal childrcn's bureau: DR.. Kathe-
rne Bement Davis. chief Of the New
York parole commission. and Dr. Owen
Lovejoy. OF oregon.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels and
Mrs. Daniels occupied a box
| Tomorrow morning the President
will go TO Long Branch, " j.. by mot or
no occupy his summer home there
REtFFIRMs POLICY
| OF NSHIP
| Tho National American Woman Suf-
| frage Association to-day reaffirmed its
|
ization toward national political parties,
! and defeated by All overwhelming vote
/ an attempt 10 place the association on
| record as in favor of supporting ma
tional candidates who pledge their sup
| port TO the proposed equal rights
aincntimc'', 10 the Federal Constitution.
| The resolution. which was introduced
by Mrs Raymond Robins, wife OF the
! chairman OF the last national Conven-
! ton of the Progressive party was
| branded by some of the delegates as
an anti Wilson move, despite vehement
denials by Mrs Robins and others who
| signed the resolution.
| The resolution provoked a long and
warm debate. In which these denials
were supplemented by declarations that
the resolution was nonpartisan, and it
was not aimed at President Wilson.
who has not come out in support of the
Federal amendment
DIR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW
VEHEMENT IN DENUNCIATION
DR. Anna Howard Shaw. honorary
| president of the association, was vehc-
| ment i'm her denunciation Of the resolu-
| ton, and supported other speakers who
| sa id the passage Of the resolution would
| hurt the suffrage cause all over the
| United States. She drew attention to
| the fact that President Wilson favors
| woman suffrage and voted for it in his
| own state.
After the Robins resolution was de-
| feated the convention adopted a resc-
luton rcaf!irming its nonpartisan atti-
liude toward national political parties.
! The resolution also stated that this
policy did not preclude the riEh; of any
| member of the association from work
ing against the election Of any candi-
date in states where they have the
| right TO vote
The resolution introduced in the con-