Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-02-02
SUFFRAGE MASS-MEET|NC
HELD At CENTRAL Y. NJ. c. A.
Instructors i'm Suffrage School Make
Addresses in Behalf OF
Cause.
REV. w. II. BOWIE pREsIDEs
Fund Is Raised for Extension Of
Suffrage Work in This State-Pol-
lard and Others, Expected on
Platform, Fail TO Appear.

The three instructors IN tho suffrage
school now being conducted NJ the
headquarters of the Equal Suffrage
League Of Richmond We're the speake
last night at suffrage maSS-meetins
in the auditorium of the Central Young
Mems Christian Association. Miss
Anne Doughty. Of New York city.
spoke on 'Ou;worn Standards and An
OnGoinS World: Mrs. T.. T. Gotham.
formerly OF Richmond. hu; now Of Lit
tie Rock. Ark on ''rracticability." aud
Mrs iialscy w Wilson. Of White
Plains. y y. on THE Truth About
Suffrage
Rev. w Hussoi Bowie. u. L., rector
Of 81 Fsu!'s Episcopal church. intro
duc"d the speakers. Mrs John H..
Lewis. OF Lynchburs. first vice-presi-
dent Of the State league. called the
meeting TO order In addition TO the
speakers. there were on the platform
Mrs. j. IL Whitner. Of Roanoke: Mrs.
Kat" Langley Bosher. Mrs q. Harvey
Clarke Mrs. Sal!ic Nelson Robins and
I'm Montague. Attorney General John
Garland Pollard and other mon who
were expected to sit on tho PLATFORM
were not present.
Serving as ushcrs were Miss Louise
Gwathmey. Miss Emma Sampson. Miss
Jeanette Jones. Miss Marianne Meade
Miss Pattir Pratt. Hiss Myrtle Barker.
Miss Elizabeth ,Iobson. Miss Martha
,lobson, Mrs. II L. Campbell. Mrs.
Ernest Meade. Mrs w Wallace Gill.
Mrs. Stuart Reynolds and others
FUND Is RAISED
ron SUFFRAGE CAUSE
After tho speeches Mrs. Wilson took
charge OF the raising OF collection.
which amounted TO more than $50
Thc money VIII be devoted to the fund
IF $1,000 pledged by tho suffragists Of
virginia AZ tho national suffrage con
ven,i"n held last summer at Atlantic
City ~ i. Only $500 will he delivered
I" the national organization. and the
remainder Will he spent in the state
In introducing the first speaker DR.
Bowie declared that lie believed in
woman suffrage because II" believed
in democracy and christianity. and be-
cSus" Of his experience as II minister
of tho Gospel. In tho organizations
and committees of tho churches hc had
served. said pr. Bowie. women had
showed quit" as much activity. wisdom
and faithfulness as tho mon. ana Crc-
uu"nt!N had surpa sscd them
Mrs Gotham called attention to tho
fact that tho balance Of power. no
iiticaliy, in tho United Statcs has
shifted in tho last national election
from tho uonsufrraEo Ess; "a tn" pro
suffrage West. ~ Nircinian lighted
III" torch Of liberty she said in con-
-lusion II ask YOU now 10 lift the
torch q little higher"
Women want to vote because ihcy
arc d"N"ioNlnS something 81 precious
that tho state ought Ia use it, and
they want TO make their contribution
direci'N. said Mrs Wilson The bal
lot. she said. Was tho final stop in the
road toward democracy. which had
h"en lcd up to by the higher ccuca-
ton of women. III" passage OF liberal
laws relating to women and granting
10 them ot economic freedom. All tho
arguments in favor az woman suffrage
she said. ""r" based ON tn" most high
and noble concept ION ot womanhood