The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-16
THE WOMAN QUESTION.
Miss Anthoay's Suffrage observation-disclosures
sion of Reports and Reporters, with n Lutte
Suffrage Thrown In.


sion of Reports and Reporters, with n Lutte
Suffrage Thrown In.
Miss Anthony in a new black velvet bonnet,
nice black silk dress, and cOquettish striped wrap
invited to take the chair az yesterdays meeting
in New York. These meetings, she said, have all
along been called the National Associatiuns. Now
IL is rather anomalous as to name They are under
the auspices of the Executive Committee OF the n.
w. s. A. but IL Is not proper to say that they repre-
sent the entire Association.
In reference to the meetings being called those OF
"Miss AnthOnys Association Miss Susan remarked
that she didn't think any harm was intended. She
considered 1t an acknowledgment that she was a
power, and she was much obliged. But she didnC
like the idea Of the papers not giving much credit
to her compeers. she never mad any occasion TO
find fault with reporters-nOt even those OF the
Cleveland Herald, who mistook her earnc1tness for
temper. They generally made her make better
speeChes-'put in more common sense than | think
do myself" The Secretary complained that she
got the resolutions with which TO write up her
minutes. She probably felt that "those miserable
reporters" had nabbed 'em with untimely Zest
Mrs Blake said that the association was not re-
spOnsble for all the resolutions read before it. No
matter how wild they may be, they are reported.
and nothing Is said about our refusal to adopt them
Anybody reading the papers cur5orily would think
they were adopted. II resolutions should he read
introducing black night and old chaos, it would be
all the same. If should bring IN resolution say
ing that, whereas, all men are tyrants, we, members
of this association, on the lst of January next, will
pledge ourselves TO the murder of our husbands,
and all, 1t would be the same. She referred to the
heading, "Pettcoat Council" Why didn't they head
masculine meetings, 'Uvercoat Conventions ?" 1t
all comes from the low condition Of woman, which
nothing can remedy but the ballot
Mrs. Hallock didn't agree with Miss Anthony on
| the subject OF reporters. She thought reporters
never say anything we do say" She had found that
there were women reporters there as well as men
women who thus falsfy their sex. She understood
that there was paper called The StGr-there were
two Stars she believed-and both, she thought
were fallen Stars. She didn't generally read their
reports, but friends had handed her slips from
them occasionally. She said that she thought many
OF the reports garbled in the Offices and per-
haps public taste demanded that style. But for
their sakes she adured the reporters present to
try to tell the truth. She inquired if they couldn't
| do something TO raise the tone of public opinion.
she had lately gone to lawyer--nOt q shyster, she
said-to ask If they weren't libes. He had told her
that they We're, but that II wasn't worth While to no.
tice them. She thought that this was the case and
| that perhaps she was big fool to care anything
about them. SO she had concluded not to go to law
| about them just at present
DR.. White, short and stout individual OF uncer-
tain age, rose tO answer to the feelings of his own
conscience" he said, and mot because he had any
thing to say" He slightly reviewed the position of
woman, and asked chow has this thing come to be
so % 1t had been so from the beginning, and was
so, he thought, because womans arms and shoul-
ders were not so strong as mans, and she had been
showed aside. Mrs. Summerby said she didn't care
what the name Of the association was; she could
work with it under any name. 1t was always a
pleasure to be among those prescribed by society
To be unpopular Is credit to us. She didn't care
what the papers said, for her part. Women must
put their shoulders to the Wheel
Miss Anthony thought that what woman needed
| was to change the fundamental ideas upon which
society is based. What we war upon is the idea not
the individual. have been told by my friends that
| there were just grounds for the charges made
against me OF egotism, etc. One instance A friend
said to me, "You stood on the platform at Cleveland
| and said that there was not one mortal man or
woman that had worked for the cause as you had!'
Now said part Of these words, but referred to the
Revolution, for which, said l had worked harder
than any mortal man or woman had ever worked
for any object. Now, II we can't understand eacn
other, how can we expect newspapers to under