Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-09-06
Campaign Plan Will Be De- cided Upon at Convention
 in Atlantic City.
MRS. COTNAM MAKES
 ADDRESS THURSDAY
President Wilson Plans to Address the Convention Friday Evening. and His Appearance Expected to Have
 Bearing on Campaign Plan.

Atlantic City, N. J., Sept 5.-Delc- gates to the forty-eighth annual con- vention of the National American Woman Suffrage association, which opens tomorrow, have taken this fa- nous resort by storm, and the head quarters are crowded with represent ative women many of whom have journey from. far distant points in the south and northwest and from the Pacific coast states. All of the national officials were on hand to- day for a preliminary meeting of the executive council. The feeling is pre- valent that the convention is destln- ed to be the most momentous meeting in the entire history of the equal suf- frage movement in this country.
 Whether the association shall drop work on the federal amendment, or concentrate on it and drop state work, or continue both state and federal work, are the big issues to be decid- ed by the convention. Equal franchise issues, in relation to the presidential campaign, will receive attention and the attitude of the association on several other questions will be de- termined. The association has plan ned the convention to crystalize the viewpoint of it's members into def mite plan of action between now and election time. Officials and lead- ing members of the association are enthusiastic in the belief that the de- velopments of the convention will pave the way for what they confi- dently assert, is the inevitable cstab- lishment of national suffrage for Wo- men.
 Three Cornered Debate.
 The convention will be called to order tomorrow morning in St. Paul's church. Mayor Bacharach will deliver an address of welcome, and then reports of committees will be read. In the afternoon there will be a three-cornered debate on the ques- tion of whether the association shall confine it's future efforts to the fed eration, to state work, or to both. Miss Laura Clay, of Kentucky, and Miss Kate Gordon, of Louisiana, will speak for State lepislation; Mrs. Ida Husted Harper and Mrs. Glendower Evans of Massachusetts, will speak for the federal amendment, and Mrs. Raymond Brown, of New York, and Miss Florence Allen, of Ohio, will advocate the policy of working along both lines as the association has been doing.
 On Thursday the convention will be held in NiXon's theater and the morning will be devoted to routine business. The feature of the after noon session will be the presidential address of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.
 The proceedings of Thursday will conclude with the celebration of 2 "Dixie Evening" in Nixon's theatre The special purpose will be to arouse interest in the suffrage cause among the women of the south and with this purpose in view all the speakers ot the evening will be southern women who will tell of the progress of tho movement in their respective states Mrs. T. T. Gotham will speak for Ark ansas; Mrs. Lila Mead Valentine fol Virginia; Mrs. B. J. Cunningham fol Texas Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smitl for Kentucky; Mrs. Edward McGehet for Mississippi; Mrs. Guilford Dud ley for Tennessee, and Mrs. Eugene Reilley for North Carolina.
 Friday morning will be devoted tt discussions of political, campaign an, election policies and routine business Dr. Anna Howard Shaw will preside over the evening session, which vii be devoted to discussion of "Why Women Need the Vote."