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MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS Entered as eocoad-clana natter December U. 1912, at the poitofttce at Baltlnore, Maryland, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Vol. Ill, No. 41 SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915 Five Cents GET THE FIELD READY FOR THE SOWING TABLE OF CONTENTS Pom- | ''"B8 Ttip IVputntlon t-. HM PtwMMl.....Sfl. 8R I Ailvi»rtl«-ment»....................325, £». 327 t'ltv Spwh ..........,...................a^l I Mini I Suffruw Leuciip I I'luiiui............ B Thp Tiu-U.mr Law......................321, 1!". I IMii-rdiU................................... 32S DEDICATION To the poor women without hornet, to the little toiler* who should be in the schools and playgrounds, to the white slaves in their tragic bondage, and to the children who die, these pages are dedicated! May every woman who is not too idle to have a thought, or too vain to have a soul, or too rich in gold to have a heart, join in the great struggle for women's freedom! Purity, Liberty, Justice—these we must work for! THE DEPUTATION TO THE PRESIDENT. Members of National Wilson and Marshall League Wait on Nation's Chief Executive and Urge His Support of Federal Suffrage Amendment—President's Reason for Refusing Support Based on Personal Belief in States' Right*. ON Wednesday. January (>. I'rcsident Wilson declined for the eighth time since he entered the White I louse to lend his support to the National Suffrage Amendment. For the first time suffragists based their reaiiest for the Presidential support on party grounds. In the past they hi.e-t.plcad general arguments in favor of giving women the ballot, and prevk us delegations have been made up of women of all political beliefs. The deputation of Janus, y (> differed from other delegations, in that it was composed almost entirely of Democratic women, many of whom are members of the Wilson and Marshall League. At 1 o'clock a mass-meeting was held at the Public Library, with Mrs. George A. Amies, president of the District of Columbia Wilson and Mar- shall League, presiding. Mrs. Kllis Logan and Miss Alberta Hill spoke. They both expressed their utmost confidence in the I'resident and said that tiltv felt that their appeal would win bis support. From the library the suffragists went in gayly-decorated automobiles to the White House, where promptly at J o'clock they were received in tlv Last Room by I'rcsident Wilson. It was a most impressive scene. For the first time in the history of the country, women who had worked for their party were asking the leader of their party to aid them in obtaining the right of suffrage. Mrs. George A. Armes, president of the District of Columbia Branch of the Wilson and Marshall League: Miss Alberta Hill of New V'ork and Dr. Frances McGaskin, spokesman for the delegation which called at the White House, reminded the President that the House would vote on the suffrage amendment January i >, and asked that he lend his moral support to the movement. Feel* Highly Complimented. "I am most unaffectedly complimented by this visit that you have paid me," the President told the women. "I have been called on several times to say what my position is on the very important matter that you arc so deeply interested in. I want to say that nobody can look on the fight you are mak- ing without great admiration, and I certainly am one of those who admire the tenacity and the skill and the address with which you try to promote the matter that you are interested in." "Hut I, ladies." he went on to say, "am tied to a conviction which I have had all my life that changes of this sort ought to be brought about State