Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Miss Antoinette Knowles (Cal.), chairman of the Committee on Church
Work, said that by standing for temperance many churches could be
obtained for meetings that would not be opened for those purely on
suffrage. She gave a list of orthodox churches which had been thus
secured; told of successful addresses she had made on the relation
between woman suffrage and temperance and urged the appointment of a
church committee in every State. The report of Miss Elizabeth J.
Hauser, headquarter's secretary, told of the usual large amount of
work, which included the distribution of 62,000 copies of the
quarterly publication, _Progress_; 106,753 pieces of literature and
many thousands of suffrage stamps, picture postals and souvenirs.
Speakers and fraternal delegates had been sent to a large number of
national conventions throughout the country and cordially received.
Many of these had adopted resolutions for woman suffrage including the
American Federation of Labor, National Association of Letter Carriers,
National Grange, National Council of Jewish Women, Supreme Commandery
Knights of Temperance, National Associations of Universalists and of
Spiritualists. The State conventions of various kinds that had
endorsed it were almost without number and excellent work had been
done at county fairs, granges, farmers' institutes, summer assemblies
and educational and religious societies. It was voted to make
_Progress_ the official organ of the association and issue it monthly.
The national headquarters in Warren, O., had been removed to a
spacious room on the ground floor of the county court house, formerly
used for a public library.
The chairman of the Press Committee, Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, made her
last report, as the press work was henceforth to be done at the
national headquarters with its excellent staff and facilities. For
twelve years Mrs. Babcock had carried on this work, which in her
capable hands had reached an immense volume and become a leading
feature of the National Association. She reported that over 5,000
papers were now using the material sent out from the press bureau and
that it was very difficult to respond to all the calls for it. In
answer to the second broadside of former President Cleveland in the
_Ladies' Home Journal_, which refused to publish anything from anybody
on the other side, 2,000 copies of articles by different persons and
1,000 of the excellent refutation by Representative John F. Shafroth
of Colorado had been distributed. The report stated that Mrs. Ida
Porter Boyer, the efficient chairman of Pennsylvania, had been sent by
the National Association to supervise the press work of the Oregon
campaign. It urged that grateful recognition should be shown to papers
that favor woman suffrage saying: "Editors are called upon for help
and are not thanked for the kindness and good they do nearly as much
as they should be." The convention gave Mrs. Babcock a rising vote of
thanks for her long and faithful work.
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