Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-12
WOMEN VOTERS
LEAGUE ABOUT
TO 0BELAUNCHED
New Body to Replace Old
Suffrage Association Will
Be Organized at Jubi-
lee Convention.

| rage is assured. The, amendment
has been ratified by 28 states and
suffrage leaders are confident that
within a few months the eight more
needed to make the required 50 VIII
have acted favorably upon it: This
convention therefore, will celebrate
the virtually successful consumma-
ton of the 50-year fight for equal
suffrage and will lay the necessary
plans to carry out the final fight
that is expected to bring complete
ratification of the amendment.
Replace Old Order.
The League of Women Voters,
which is to replace the old suffrage
organization, is designed to become
medium through which the wo-
men of the nation may give express
sion to their political desires. 1t Is
to be nonpartisan in character, but
is intended to afford medium
through which women of all polit-
ical beliefs may work for the success
of political measures in which wo-
men of the nation have united in
terest. The welfare of women i'll in
dustry will be one of the chief con-
Germs Of the new organization.
The convention also will be a
memorial to the late DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw. for many years leader
in the suffrage movement, and will
celebrate the Tooth anniversary of
the birth of Susan B. Anthony, the
pioneer suffragist of the United
States.
All Notables Present.
Hundreds of delegates are in at
tendance at the convention, and
of visitors, attracted by
the convention, are in Chicago.
Elaborate arrangements for the en-
tertainment of the delegates and
visitors, made by the sutfragists of
Illinois, are being taxed to the ut
most to accommodate those in at
tendance.
Woman whose names are nation
ally known in the suffrage move
ment and in the councils of the
dominant political parties, are di-
recting the work of the convention,
Among these is Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, president Of the National
Woman Suffrage associa-
ton, who is regarded as a leading
candidate for president of the Ma
tional League of Women Voters.
Demonstrating the non-partisan
character of the assemblage is the
fact that women who occupy places
of leadership in both the republican
and democratic parties are taking a
prominent part in the convention.
Mrs. John Glover South of Frank
fort, Ky, was for three years presi-
dent of the Kentucky Equal Rights
association and recently was elected
chairman of the national republican
women's committee. The democratic
party is represented BY Mrs. George
Bass of Chicago, member of the
national women's democratic conf
mittee.
Drafted First Bill.
Prominent in the convention work
also is Mrs. Catherine w. McCul-
och of Chicago, who has the dis
Iinction of having written the Hi
lois presidential suffrage bill. which
gave to the women of that state the |
light to vote in presidential cleo
lions. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout of
Chicago, president of the Illinois
Equal Suffrage association, which
boasts membership of 250,000, is
another leader.
Mrs. Jacob Bauer, of Chicago,
president of the Chicago Equal Suf-
rage association, and known as one
If the most successful business wo-
men in the United States, was active
II making arrangements for the con-
sention and the entertainment of the
delegates. Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns
If Chicago, who has taken an active
part among republican women vot.
ers Of Illinois, is among the fore
most leaders of the convention.
Delegates From South.
New York is represented by Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, who is the dele
gate of the New York CITY League