Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-10
SUFFRAGE JUBILEE
IN HALL IN WHICH
THEY MET DEFEAT
Women Occupy Chairs of
Delegates Who Voted
Against Them.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION
OVER "FELLOW CITIZENS"
Mrs. John II. Lewis Presides
and Mrs. Maude Park and
Senator Mapp Speak.

Declaring that Il was n matter OF
poetic justice. at least. If not of his
toric rctrlbution," that the women
voters OF tho state should celebrate
their aHii!ation with the National
League Of Women Voters in House
OF Delegates, where they so often
were rejected in their pleas for equal
suffrage. State Senator c. Walter
Mapp OF Accomac. last night ad-
dressed a large and cnthusias st ic
audience Of !nen and women. lie was
followed by Mrs. Maudc Wood Park.
or massachusetts. national chairman
OF the league, who made a plea for
N!rg!nia's complete representation n;
the leagues first annual convention
next April In Cleveland. The repre-
sentation viii be Ply congressional
districts.
Mrs. John III. Lewis. OF Lynchbury.
presided in the place OF Mrs. Lila
Meade Valentine. The women OF the
audience had TO be twice addressed
rs fellow citizens by their chair
man before they fully gathered 10
themselves Mrs. Lewis significance.
ITh"reupon cnsued great demon
stTation. In voice that trcmblcd
with emotion. Mrs. Lewis then plead
Cd for all women TO Join hands with
the men in government az well as in
family matters. and extended a WEI
come Oh the part of the advocates
OF suffrage 10 those good women
and true who were so long Of the
opposite persuasion"
stand for Proclamation.
The delegates stood while Balm
~ Hryn NJ lk..'u
was read by Mrs Kate l.. Bosba-
Next Miss Adele Clark read the lis,
OF members OF the Senate and the
General Assembly who had suppor,ed
Nirginia's suffrage workers. Hill
Montague. who presented the first
resolution proposing equal suffrage
ever submitted 10 the State Legis,a-
ture, then spoke. Hc was larnely Az
piauded at his declaration that the
right OF women to the ballot should
never have been questioned He urged
the members of the new electorate no,
TO feel constraint in their first ma
uona! election. but to vote according
10 the dictates OF their conscicnces.
senator Mapp declared his entire
satisfaction with the manner in which
suffrage has been accepted through
out lhc country and In particulaiSwith IL h
the way the women of this State are
facing their new status. He caused
ripple OF amusement among his
women hearers when ne said he boped
TO see one of them before long in the
state Senate and he recommended
that the first woman Senator should
petition for seat No. IL. formerly oc.
cupied BY Senator Drewry, whose on
position to suffrage before his cleva-
ton to Congress was one OF the rrea,
nE-blocks before the women
in their fight.
lie recalled anecdotes OF the fights
over past suffrage resolutions and
was enthusiastically applauded wher
declared that he had always re-
'l!ed to all arguments in favor OF
'unrage by saying there was nc
negative answer to them. Senator
iapp was to talk on the responsi-
bilities. opportunities and duties OF
he women voters. but he was largely
'cneral in his remarks. He called
heir attention to tho fact that Vir-
ginia's public school and highway
ystems can only be brought up to
tandard If the women organize to
'otc for the pending constitutional
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