Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-21
SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
OPENS CONVENTION
Virginia Women Seeking Ballot
Urge Ratification by Next
General Assembly.
TRINKLE HOLDS OUT HOPE
State Senator Tells Delegates
Legislature Will Stand for
Womanhood" in 1920.
TRINKLE HOLDS OUT HOPE

put on the women Of any other coun-
Try as that requiring Anne rican women
paigns before being granted the right
OF suffrage by their menfolk." This
by Mrs. Raymond Brown, of New York
iourth vice president of the Nationa al
American Woman's Suffrage Associa-
Equal Suffrage League Of Virginia as
semGled in their eighth annual con-
ESention in the auditorium of the JEFF
the Eauai Suffrage League " Of Virginia, H
G,a,!ed the conyention to order yester-
nounced by Rev. George Wesley Jones.
Mrs: Kate Langley Bosher extended the
Of Richmond. This was res6onded to
by Mrs. John II. Lewis. of LynchburE
Keborts F., .e were read by Mrs. +. q. Kidd.
Miss Ida 81. Thompson headGuarters h ahs
secretary.
Means "Common Senxe.,
Women will bring common sensc
INTO government. the kind of common
Sease Sin chjfdI tha. I.n prompts father to tell
ciared M 'iNsfeh' Nls HroSn %S ask SIX, mother de-
Will also contribute a GRASP of de,aii
Willingness 30 expose rottenness
Is sadly needed. What men have os shown eMa1
~ Years or authority that they lack.
ctS6untry in time of war and aided in
hind i utb5,n'ate ,ba ATE yictory by working be-
was direc;or-general OF the hoWi, Wn,,,s VINO sno
,4Sverseas oyer Hosp!tal in France durins ] 3
womSn 1ns war aSd %iih otir Germany; These same
10 be allowed 10 serve in tingeag tHiegging ;
peace peace as they cid in the heat. .e OF tSe oe
Men OF Virginia. will YOU NOT riy.
tue "a women OF the Old Dominion ethc
sps1e them Gr s"h1afs ahe humiintoTno lihiHtoTously and
going a, eruelline campaign o' s,,nb nhuer. n.
vas conducted In New York before thn
prove proved" ;hbthony sbn h amsndment was ap-
number OF prominent men in the audia
ence. at the conclusion OF her he @ address as
Novelist on Program.
prog Ram I5S%n bS Miss wsS E!io,p preceded on the
ts,; an;;n1 VINO was introduced by Mrs. "UEs Val
of 'itS tSo as s one of the pioneer suffragists
briefly OF fia,Gi the ;ncon,iass Miss Glasgow SPOKE
IN IN Virginia about ten years ago i''ehe in fhe
mSSfftbthg wSfcbh OF small group OF Women ne ',df of
There There was a note of IF trfumn, n 49,
VOC. uoiGe last night when Mrs. VaInn,h1eerr an her
Henry W. WfoHNmd1nieation !Nndsrlieoantio from, Coionei
eSeeu;ive committee Of the Rirbrndtnhe, HJr EI me
in Whicb ,'qn b opposed to equal suffrapc
ton o.. suffrage was no "Io "a, me cues
sue sue either in England or Americah ah IS
cieoriW g OF both countries n, ".
suffrage shall be eXtended dditsion that
as ...Te TeiI rs to men women
as rms , nIna, policy having been disposed o,
~. plactical issue, il would &C.,
INA, tnat the wise course is to acna, seem
uecision and. without continI,;nr' 'he
vote the e'n1Towersy nnffSd to endeavor to de-
of the conn,rv "nired thought and energies
I'VE I'VE task now confronting u.s." ',uc- Mns
,n.ientine read from Colonel Andersnr.s ns;
this % esponsi5r loilonsed ef ,hap2 applause greeted
t.Srmcrly so prominently connected ,,y;tt,
the opposing forces with
he!oiclng over the adoption of tb.
ber b of States and determinatjon I1n-
mingled n with hope, that the Virriria
Lei sisiature would ratify It at tbe sns' .,s'
Snoi, ,n In January were evident in the
resolved itself into a sympos;un, men
winch eight prominent speakers taikah
icL"1!ooosrna;Sp M ar,oos ASPECTS Of the general top
state Senator T.. Lee TrinkIe' Of Tho
filth District. famed the smouIdnrinc
res res OF hope for action in Virs
gina when he declared. in a short
speech; that he thought the Cenepai
; assembly would stand for woman
hood At the coming session.
s,rn, s many as eighteen Senator'S were
cq"ai suffrage now. said Mr.. TrinkIe
Give Fiyc-Minute Talks
NIter i've speakers yesterday after
Noon noon had given four-minute talks on
VIVA W. INA Is the Matter With Virginia"
Mrs. B B- AIunford answered the umes-
non; Well. Then What Is the Mai
yer: She declared that Virginia was
SLOW in recognizing the sweep Of the
movement and was stupid concerning
&c edlial suffrage. Because this State has
Jagged. enfranchiscment would prob
IDLY come by way of action by the
= ederal government in amending the
Constltution. she said.
AIRS. Munford's address was followed
ny talk on '"rhe Ideal Common
wealth" by Miss Lucy Randolph Ma
son: and one on Making 1t Right in
Dke. o- i'o""
In the symposium Mrs. Kate Pleas
lnts Minor spoke on Mothers OF the
old south Want Suffrage: Mrs Thomas
VI. Meade. of Danville. on Mothers of
ne New South Want IT,; Mrs. John N.
Miles OF Roanoke. on BUSINESS Women
Want IT," and Miss Bessie r. TayIor,
of the Virginia Education Commission
on Teachers Want It."
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