Show r i ill li Suffragists Plan to Charm the Senate jL r S4 tQN Tho annual national WASHINGTON tional convention of women emit raglsts which will be held In Wash ngton tho week of April 14 will bo ho most notable gathering of Its kind In point of numbers and personnel that ever has taken place In this country Never before have women of such wealth and social position Journeyed to tho national capitol to press their cause Their presence will bo celebrated cele-brated by Washington society with around a-round of social functions Many of the society delegates will wear tholr most fetching toilettes to tho convention conven-tion and they hopa to convert many statesmen by showing them that It Is not only the mascullno typo of women who wants tho ballot Thcro is another and more potent reason for tho fair suffragists wearing their most elaborate costumes For tho first time the women delegates will appear In person before tho senate They will present to tho upper houso of congress tho giant petition for which names have been gathered for several years from every state In tho union Tho petition praying for mil versal suffrage contains moro than 1000000 names Mrs Clarence H Mackay president of tho Equal Franchise society will be ono of the delegates Mrs Oltitr 11 P Belmont will bo ono of the rep rosontntatlvcs of tho Political Equally it Equal-ly association Many suffragists In New York leave become greatly exercised ovor tine recent re-cent meeting held by Mrs Belmont at w + r tho Mount Olivet Baptist church nt which sho took many nogro women Into her organization It has caused K many to speculate us to tho possibility of enfranchising tho negro women of time southern states Many letters barer been exchanged during tho past week between tho Now York women and llitr suffragist workers In tho south dls i cussing the manner In which tho colored col-ored womens vote can be eliminated If wo got tho voto Yes said Mrs Ida hosted Harper It Is truo that tho southern women wish to bar tho colored woman from m voting Hut as tho national associa I tion stands for universal suffrage nt all times and In all places wo cannot countenance this action of tho south ern women Tho southern states that belong to the national association arrt Oeorgla Kentucky Louisiana Missis I slsslppl Missouri Maryland and Ton nor 100 t Mrs Bolmont gave out tho following statement regarding her stand on them > the-m atter Pi r I do not consider tho suffrage qnen tlon a social question In any senso ct t tho word It Is purely a political question i tlon and must only bo considered asf such Tho matter of political equalIty equal-Ity has no connection with nodal equalIty I equal-Ity I think each state has the right1 to settle this matter for Itself |