The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-12
VICTORY IS
Celebrated
BY WOMEN
Suffrage Leaders Meet in Chi
cago Jubilee-Receive Re-
ports From States on
Amendment.
80 ARE COUNTED over

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-Women dele.
gates representing the members OF
the National American Woman Sur
frage Association, which is branch
of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance and of the National Council
of Women, an organization that mas
led the fight for votes for women since
the days of Susan B. Anthony, are
meeting at the Congress hotel to cele'
brate the victory Of woman Suffrage.
Among the officers and board mem
bers present are: President, Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Gait; first vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Stanley Mccormick, Massa-
chusetts; second vice-president, Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, New York: third
yice-president, Mrs. Guilford Dudley.
Tennessee; fourth vice-president, Mrs
. Raymond Brown, New York; hfth
pvice-president Mrs. Helen Gardner
Washington; treasurer, Mrs. Henry
Wade Rogers, Connecticut; CORE
spending secretary, Mrs. Frank j
Shuler, New York; recording secre.
tary, Mrs. Halsey Wilson, New York;
directors, Mrs. Charles Brooks, Kan
sas; Mrs j. C. Cantrill, Kentucky;
Mrs. Richard e. Edwards, Indiana:
Mrs. George Gellhorn, Missouri; Mrs.
Ben Hooper, Wisconsin; Miss Esther
Ogden, New York; Mrs. George Pear
sol, Pennsylvania; national press de-
partment, Miss Rose Young, chair
man, national headquarters. New
York; congressional committee, Mrs.
Maud Woodpark, chairman, Washing
ton headquarters; National Woman
Suffrage Publishing Company. lnc.,
Miss Esther G. Ogden, president, New
York. -..
Filled With optomism
Full suffrage for women in time to
permit them to vote at the 1920 cleo
tion has not yet been made certain
but the goal is so near that the wom-
en- are filled with optimism. They
believe that it will not be long until
the 80 necessary states will have
ratified the suffrage amendment to
the federal constitution. When Idaho
came in last night the number OF
states that have ratified the amend
ment was 80, just six fewer than are
needed, but the women are not taking
anything on trust.
Hundreds of letters and kilograms
are going out from this meeting
They are confident that they will sue
ceed, and confidence is the conqueror
of men. There was a time when
women suffrage was as chimerical as
the black swan of Horace. Each OF
of the great political parties was In
.trenched in prejudice against it. But
1.-The great world is spinning forever
down the grooves Of change.
Women Never Faitered.
~ Realizing that there is a tide in the
affairs of men, which, If taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune, the women
OF America never faltered. No great
deed is ever done by falterers who
ask for certainty. At times the night
was dark for them But there is a
day of sunny rest for every dark and
troubled night, and the report to the
delegates today showed that the fol
lowing states had granted full sui
frage to women:
Idaho. Illinois, Wilsoncin. Michigan
Kansas, Ohio, o New York, Pennsyl
vania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa
Missouri, Arkansas, Montana, Ne
braska, Minnesota, Maine, North Da
kota, South Dakota, Colorado, Rhode
Island, Kentucky, Oregon. Indiana
Wyoming, Nevada and New Jersey.
SO this convention was called te
celebrate a glorious victory. 1t is be
lIcved that some time next week the
National American Woman Suffrage
association will pass into history with
its fifty.first convention and the
League of Women Voters will take its
Mace