The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-02-27

and watched through the tedious mouth
ings of a score Of ready-to-explode-with-
eloquence-orators, dryly remarked in
Yours Truly's hearing, ''This is terribly
thin soup. Wait till Mrs. Duniway
comes, and then, when the Alliance
meets, We'll have turkeyp
If the Union accomplished anything
even to disrupting the Alliance-Yours
Truly failed to see it. 1t passed some
buncombe resolutions and otherwise
killed time, but when it undertook to
run a temperance meeting without
Woman Suffragists, it was like the play
of Hamlet with Hamlet left out.
Mr.. Leland made some good speeches,
bat it must be fun for the Changers, the
way he courts 'em when everybody
knows they're not "sweet on temper
ance' at all.
Yours Truly is only school girl, but
she knows enough TO be certain that
secret society, like the Changers, must
laugh in its sleeve over the attempt of
so many differentand opposing elements
to ride it as a hobby when they've no
means Of knowing what the hobby is.
When the Union raveled out, and the
Alliance met, Yours Truly looked for
war. The packed president of two
State organizations" set up committee
OH credentials, to which he doubtless
looked to repeat the ravages of Mrs.
Duniway's Modoc Thornton, of a year
before, but he reckoned without his host,
and the Suffragists were not only ad-
mitted, but the great Alliance pledged
itself in unmistakable language, and
without a dissenting voice, to the en-
franchisement of women.
If Yours Truly had stood in Mrs.
Duniway's shoes just then, she would,
when called upon for a speech, have ex-
ulted just a little; but Mrs. d. took her
hard-fonght and well-earned victory as
matter Of course, and disgusted us all
by a prosy speech of ten minutes on f.
nancel It was an outrage, when we
were all so hungry for little spice!
But wehidn't have to wait long for
condiments. Speaker rafterspeake took
the platform and proclaimed the need of
women's work at the balIOt-box in the
aid of temperance until it really looked
to the timid as though the Alliance had
been packed by stuffed orators. But
Mrs. Duniway was out on a committee
and Col. Reed sought occasion tosmooth
the feathers of the tender-footed by OBJ
serving that the suffrage speeches were
not being made by suffrage delegates;
that the delegation did not intend to
tread upon anybOdy's corns, and so
forth, which Modified the president
of" etc, etc, and everything grew
lovely.
The first evenings session was dis
turbed by n sociable for the benefit of
Capital Lodge, No. !, /. o. G. Ia Cap
ltal dodge for catching the stray half
dollars of delegates, whose travelling ex-
penses and hotel bills ought to bring
them immunity from these encroach-
ments on their time and money
upon these occasions. If Capital Lodge
knew the feeling of the State at large
over such conduct it wouldn't be guilty
of it again.
AS Yours Truly only proposes to write
of that concerning which others are too
timid to express an opinion, she will moi
now 90 into details concerning that
projected political party which is left
for the present in the hands of the de-
posed "Presideut of two State organic
ations." When this irascible gentle.
man fully decides as to what he will do
with his elephant, he is kindly requested
to publish his decision for the good o.
the public and the consequent diversion
of Yours TRULY.