Under the rules of the committee, if three of the five district members are present, the attendance from such district is counted as the full five. Taking advantage of this rule, last night's meeting mustered only twenty-three, still three short of the necessary quorum.
Mrs. V. V. Valentine, President of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, and Mrs. Valentine, President of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, were the first and second roll callers, while the committee waited hopefully for late arrivals to fill up the quorum, the members heard an appeal from Mrs. B. B. Valentine, president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. Mrs. Valentine reminded the committee that the last Democratic National Convention had ratified a plank endorsing the extension of the vote to women. State by State, and that President Wilson had himself later interpreted the plank to be a solemn obligation on the Democratic party to support woman suffrage.
The speaker expressed the hope that, should a State convention be called, the party in Virginia will follow the lead of the national convention and insert a suffrage plank in the State platform, at the same time recommending an amendment to the State Constitution looking to the enfranchisement of Virginia's women.
"The women of Virginia hope that the action taken at the St. Louis convention is not just another empty promise," said Mrs. Valentine. "We plead with you men of Virginia not to Prussianize this State by establishing an unbending male autocracy, and by  In disregarding the promise made at St. Louis as a mere scrap of paper, $60,000 FOR STREETS Finance Committee at Kieentlre Session Votes to Supplement Budget Appropriation. 