Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-26
SUFFRAGE VICTORY
| T0BE Celebrated
Woman Campaigners and
Co-Workers Gather Here at
Mass Meeting Tonight.

Plans for the woman suffrage vic
tory meeting" at Polls Theater at s
o'clock tonight have been completed.
The meeting is to be held under the
Auspices of the National League OF
Woman Voters, which is the successor
of the National American Waman SUI
,frage Association, and is open to the
public
Secretary of State Colby will de-
liver an address, and message IRON,
iPresid dent Wilson to the women VIII
be read Another speaker will be MIS-
Carrie Chapman Gait. president or the
National American Suffrage Associa-
'tion during the passage OF the SUI
Ifrage amendment through Congress
and president of the international
Woman Suffrage Alliance, which she
founded. Mrs. Gait went to Tennes-
see and conducted a campaign FOR tne
ratification of the suffrage amend.
ment and has just come from tnal
state Her subject will be The Las'
Battle
Mrs. Uphnm to Speak.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upham of Ohio
vice chairman of the national repuD-
lican committee and for thirty years
treasurer of the National Woman
Suffrage Association. will speak on
The Men Who Ran Away" She, too
was in Tennessee.
Other speakers will be Miss Char
Williams of Tennessee, vice chairman
of the national democratic commit
tee. on Qualification and Politics,
and Miss Marjorie Shuler. member
of the congressional committee OF the
suffrage association, on The I'M
mortal Forty-nine."
Mrs. Maud Wood Park. chairman
Of the National League of Women
Voters. will preside. and Rev Henry
n. Couden. chaplain of the House, will
pronounce the invocation.
visfters From Other Cities.
Many women from other cities are
expected to be present. Among those
coming for the meeting are. from
New York city. Miss Mary Garret,
Hay. Mrs. Frank J. shuIer. both promi.
ne mt in republican campaign activities
Miss Esther Ogden. vice chairman
woman's bureau, national democratic
campaign. and Mrs. Henry Wade
Rogers. treasurer of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
e Anthony, niece to Susan B. Anthony
and Mrs. Nicolas Fraser. niece Of DIR
Anna Howard Shaw. heading a dele
cation from Pennsylvania
Music will be furnished by brass
band. Boxes will be occupied by
the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs
Daniels. One box will be occupied by
Mrs. Helen Gardener, vice president
of the n A. w. S. A., and a civil
service commissioner.
That women have already arrived
in governmental affairs will be shown
by those women in important posi-
lions who have consented to sit or
the platform. Most of them were ap
pointed by the President Of the United
States. They are:
Mrs. Frances Axtell, commissioner OF
the federal employees compensation
Miss Annette Adams. special assist.
ant. U. s. Department of Justice COM
mission: Miss Mary Anderson, chief
of the woman's bureau. Department
of Labor; Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor
rent commissioner of the District
Miss Caroline Fleming. assistant CHIEF
of the childrens bureau.
others who will have places on the
platform are Mr.. and Mrs. Edward P
Costigan. Mr.. and Mrs. George East
ment. Mrs. Nina Van Wrinkle Mr.. anc
Mrs. Basil Manly. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Atherton Du Puy, Mrs. Gouver-
neur Hoes, Mr.. and MRS Wesley Mar
tin Stoner. Mrs. Court Wood, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles O'Neil, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert N. Harper. Mr.. and Mrs. James
F. oyster. Mr.. and Mrs. Phil King
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles j. Columbus and
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Steward.