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Show SUFFRAGISTS SEE WILSON a st a js 2 ASK HIM TO CHANGE MIND MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. l SlC'm ,.(? ' ''' . ' V. j f ' - - r " " ' ' - I , ' . ' f " - ' V ' i Mrs. Catt Finds President Weakening in Opposition to Federal Amendment. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. While Charles Hughes was outlining outlin-ing in New York today Ills position po-sition in favor of a federal woman suffrage amendment. President Wilson was being urged by officials offi-cials of t lie National American Woman SHiffrase association to take a like stand. After she left tho White house Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the association, associa-tion, said the president was weakening In his opposition to the federal amendment, amend-ment, but had made it plain that he still preferred action on the question by the states. Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Frank ,M. Roes-sing, Roes-sing, chairman of the association's congressional con-gressional committee, taiked with the president for nearly an hour. The engagement en-gagement was made several days ago and word of Mr. Hughes's announcement did not reach the capital until a siiort time before the women went to the White house. Tonight Mrs. Catt Issued a statement saying the association was "highly gratified" grati-fied" over the declaration of the Republican Re-publican nominee. In response to questions, ques-tions, however, she said that when the organization's national convention met in September she would urge that "the association's as-sociation's best hope of victory would lie in preserving the present non-partisan attitude." Several officials of the Congressional Con-gressional Union for Woman Suffrage also issued statements commending Mr. Hughes's position. Mrs. Catt said she had gone over carefully care-fully with the president the campaign waged by the national association and the prospects for final victory. Mr. Wilson, she said, manifested great Interest and Indicated that he never iiad closed his mind against a federal amendment. |