Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-08
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
TO WORK THROUGH STATES
Platform Outlines Plan of Campaign
for Ratification by
Legislatures.
ADOPTED AFTER LONG DEBATE
Also Decides That Lobby Will &c
Continued in Washington, and
That National tight for Federal
.Amenimcf" -: Carried On.

ATLANTIC CITY. y. j.. September I.
After IA Ion. debate, which carried
the afternoon session OF the convention
well into the evening, the National
American Woman Suffrage Association
to-day adopted Il platform outlining its
plan Of campaign for securing the sub
mission of the Federal suffrage amend
rnent TO the state Legislatures for rati-
iication.
1t was decided that the next annual
convention in 1917 be held in March
or "thereabouts'' that a lobby be con-
tinued at Washington, and that the
association conduct nation wide cam
paicn OF education, agitation. orGaniza-
ton and publicity in support OF the
Federal amendment. y million dollar
campaign fund is to be raised between
october. isis year. and October, 1917.
1t was further agreed by the con-
vcntion that no state association shall
ask the Legislature OF it's State for
the submission of an amendment or
Referendum to the people until the ma
. tionai board or executive council of the
association shall have been given the
opportunity 10 invo .l.ate conditions
and give consent.
The platform was adopted without
amendment, after parliamentary tits.
y Debate on the resolution of Presi-
dem, Carrie Chapman Gait, presented
yesterday. which interprets the consti-
tuition To mean that the submission OF
the Federal amendment Is the i'm
mediate and principal aim of the as
socia ton. and that all state work is
merely In preparedness TO that end,
followed.
Many of the delegates became weary
OF the long session, ana another mo-
ton was made To postpone considcra-
ton. and II was quickly adopted, and
the resolution was fixed for the first
order OF business tomorrow morning
The annual address Of The president
was one of the features Of the days
proceedings. Mrs. Gait reviewing the
suffrage movement IN many States for
years back.
Many delegates to-day explained to
the convention the difficulties of get
ting proposed constitutional amend
ments throueh the Legislatures. Mrs
Guilford Dudley. Tennessee in favor
Ing Il Federal amendment. said that
ono OF The objections heard To it was
that il infringcd on State rights
she pointed ont that many statesmen
who oppose Federal suffrage amend
mcnt ms an INVASION Of state rights.
favored the amendment clccting Sen
ators by the people, the national pro
hibltion amendment. and the national
child labor law, which she said arc IN
the same class with regard to alleged
infringement
the evening session Of the conven-
ton was given over to listening to
speeches by Southern women I'll
was called Dixie Evening" Those
VIII" were on the program as sneakers
"er" Mrs. Il. j. Cunningham. president
! Nas Woman Suffrage Associations;
Mrs Guilford Dudley, president Tennes-
see Equal Suffrage Association: Mrs
jefferson Smith, president Kentucky
Equal Rights Association. and Mrs. r
y. Gotham, vice. president Arkansas
Woman Suffrage association
MHS. VALENTINE ONE or
"DINIE NIGHT" SPEAKERS
Mrs. Lila Meade Valentine, president
Of tho Virginia Equal Suffrage League.
one of the speakers at the Dixie Night
session OF the association. tonight said:
IF were asked /" give ono reason.
above all others. for advocating the
enfranchisemr Of women, should
understandings reply The necessity for
the complete development Of woman as
It prerequisite for the highest dcvcIop-
mcnt of the race
lust so long ns woman remains
under gnardianship. US il she were a
MINOR or an incomr"tcni-ius so long
as Sh" paSSiN"ly accepts al the hands
81 men conditions. uaarcS. laws, as il
they were DEGREES "f Providence; Just
6" long as She is deprived of The c,Iuca-
iiN" responsibilities of scif-Govcrn-