The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-09

what the opposition had termed a par tisan policy, had been definitely and decisively. beaten during the afternoon.
 Dr. Davis on Losing Side.
 The debate against Mrs. Robins resolution had been led by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President Emeritus of the association. With her old time vigor and great power of personality, Dr. Shaw had pointed out the dangers of partisanship. Katherine Bement Davis was an active worker on the losing side.
 ! The struggle, which has been brew ing for days, came to it's climax when Mrs George Bass of Chicago leaped to her feet and in a voice and with an eloquence that has won her a reputa- tion second to none as a Suffrage ora tor, denounced the resolution as "anti- Wilson," Mrs. Bass had placed her self on record yesterday as Repub1i- can in the present campaign.
 An uproar ensued. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,; president and presid- ing officer, had a hard job stopping arguments to and fro across the ahea- tref1f After more heated arguments Mrs. Catt put the question and the vote against the resolution and against partisanship was overwhelming.
 Hopes It Will Come In Wilson's Term.
 Dr. Shaw was called on, for a speech after President Wilson had finished. She had been among the first to jump to her feet and wave her hand kerchief when the President made particularly telling points for Suffrage. Now she isaid, smiling, that she had waited for votes for women a good many years and that she would like to see ''the day" arrive during President Wilson's administration.
 Programs, banners, handkerchiefs and a tumult of feminine cheers re- warded Dr. Shaw's speech.
 The days program closed with the entire gathering singing My Country, Iris of Thee"
 It was announced last night that $81S, 5000 for the Federal amendment campaign had been pledged among the delegates in 40 minutes. Of this amount Mrs. -Catt gave $10.O0O.
 The Presidents speech in full was as follows:
 Real Privilege to Be There.
 Madame President, ladies of the Association: I have found 1t a real privilege to be here tonight and to listen to the address which you have heard. Though you may not all of you believe it, would a great deal rather hear somebody else speak than myself, but I should feel that I was emitting a duty if I did not address you tonight, and say some of the things that have been in my thoughts as realize the approach of this even- ing and the duty that would fall upon me.
 The astonishing thing about the movement which you represent is not that it has grown so slowly, but that 1t has grown so rapidly. No doubt for those who have been a long time in the struggle, like your honored president, it seems a long and ardu- ous path that has been trodden, but whe enS you think of the culminating force of this movement in recent dec- ades, you must agree with me that ii is one of the most astonishing tides in modern history. Two generations ago, no doubt Madame President will agree with me in saying, it was a handful of women who were fighting this cause. Now it is a great multi tude of women who are fighting it.
 Some Historical Connections
 And there are some interesting historical connections which I would like to attempt to point out to you One of the most striking facts about the history of the United States is that at the outset it was a lawyers history Almost all of the questions cf which America addressed itself, say hundred years ago. were legal ques- tions; were questions of what you were going to do with your Govern ment, but questions of how you were going to constitute your Government how you were going to balance the powers of the States and the Federal Government, how you were going to balance the claims of property against the processes of liberty, how you were going to make your Governments up