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VIRGINIA.

The seventh annual convention of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia xxx held at the Jefferson Hotel Auditorium in Richmond, November, 12, 13, 14, 1917 was an epooh xxxx making one. Two events helped to make it so. One was the coming of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw to speak at the xxxxxxxxxxxx Mass Meeting, the other was the strong sentiment xxxxxxxxx for the Federal Amendment prevailing in all sessions of the convention. Virginia suffragists, true to their xxxxxxxxxxxxx agreement with the National Association, have always worked along both State and Federal lines. Up to this xx year, however, the feeling in Virginia against federal legislation has been so marked that work for the Federal Amendment has made little or no progress. Now, however, that Virginia is eating and heating and employing labor federally, xxxxxxxxxxxxx suffragists feel that she may be willing to have them dealt with federally. In no unvertain terms, Mrs. B. B. Valentine, president of the Virginia League, making her xxxxxx, annual address, used that eloquence for which she is noted, in urging a drive for signatures to the Federal Amendment petition all over the State, before Congress meets in December.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx A meeting of the Executive Council was held at State Headquarters on the evening of the 12th.. The result of this conference was that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx policy for the ensuing year be dependent xx upon the action taken by Congress, which xxxxx xxxx recommendation was later acted upon favorably by the convention.
The convention was called to order by the president promptly at 10.30 0'clock, opened