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Show PLEDGES I 10 WOMAN- SUFFRAGE! WILSON TELLS DELEGATES TO ASSOCIATIONS HE HAS COME TO FIGHT WITH THEM. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Informs President She Wants Vote to Come to His Administration. Ad-ministration. Atlantic City, N. J. "Triumph for the woman suffrage cause "in a little while" was predicted by President Wilson in a speech before the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association. 'I have come here to fight with you," the president declared. Immediately Imme-diately the 4,000 women present stood and cheered. A few minutes later Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president presi-dent of the association, with Mr. Wilson Wil-son still present, declared: "We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now. I want it to come during your administration." Again the great audience of women stood and cheered, waving handkerchiefs. handker-chiefs. The president did not speak on the method by which he would bring about woman suffrage, but said "we shall not quarrel in the long run as to the method of it." The president was warmly applauded applaud-ed before, during and after his speech. With Mrs. Wilson, he sat during several sev-eral addresses. Fears expressed before be-fore the meeting that he might be "heckled" did not materialize. At the conclusion of his address, Mrs. Catt thanked him for speaking. |