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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| CHAPTER X. | |
| National Suffrage Convention of 1910 | 266 |
| Convention returns to Washington after six years — President Taft makes speech of welcome — Delegates show displeasure — Exchange of letters between national officers and the President — Official resolution of regret — Comment of Woman's Journal — Report of association's vast work from New York headquarters — Great Petition officially received by Congress — Mrs. Upton resigns as treasurer — Memorial addresses for Mr. Blackwell and Wm. Lloyd Garrison — Alice Paul on "militant" suffrage in Great Britain — "Dorothy Dix” on The Real Reason why Women can not Vote — Max Eastman on Democracy and Woman — Mrs. Harper's report as chairman of National Press Committee — Hearings before Committees of Congress; speeches by Dr. Shaw, Mrs. McCulloch, Eveline Gano of New York on teachers' need of the vote; Dr. Anna E. Blount of Chicago on profess al women's need; Minnie J. Reynolds on writers signing petitions — U. S. Senator Shafroth's notable speech to Senate Committee — House Committee: Mrs. Raymond Robins, Elizabeth Schauss, factory inspector; Laura J. Graddick of a District Labor Union and Florence Kelley argue for the working women's need of vote — Speeches of Mrs. Upton and Laura Clay. | |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| National Suffrage Convention of 1911 | 310 |
| Convention in Louisville, Ky., celebrates victories in Washington and California — Welcomed by Laura Clay — Mr. Braly tells of California campaign — Mary Ware Dennett, new corresponding secretary, reports world wide work — Caroline Reilly, new chairman, describes press work in 41 States — Jane Addams, on College League's Evening shows what women might accomplish with the franchise — Dr. Thomas what the suffrage means to college women — Dr. Harvey W. Wiley speaks on Women's Influence in Public Affairs — Katharine Dexter McCormick on Effect of Suffrage Work on Women themselves — Mrs. McCulloch on Equal Guardianship Laws — Church needs Woman Suffrage — Mrs. Desha Breckinridge discusses Prospect for Woman Suffrage in the South — Mrs. Pankhurst receives ovation. | |
