The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-10-20
THE ANTHONY.
SUSAN INTERVIEWED.

SUSAN INTERVIEWED.
WOMAN sUFFRAGE-sITTING ON THEoDoRE's
KNEE-sHE WON'T TELL WHAT MRS. TILToN
TOLD HER.
A reporter OF the Chicago Tribune had an
amusing interview with Miss Anthony,
Monday evening. He writes it up as fol-
lows: Last night the ladies OF the Illinois
State woman's Suffrage Association were
on the qui vive, for it was known in chosen
circles that the pioneer of female suffrage
was even then on the incoming train, en-
route for Chicago to attend the mass meet
ing on Wednesday of this week. Mrs. Fer
nando Jones, the president of the associa-
tion was fitting hither and thither in her
hospitable home, seeing that the rooms
were heated TO just such comfortable tenn
perature, that the dinner was ready the
moment the distinguished guest arrived,
that Mr.. Jones left on time to escort aunt
Susan" from the train, ana that no pos
sible comfort could be omitted. The time
passed. The writer had read an account of
the proceedings of the trial of Susan b.
Anthony for illegal voting, and had arrived
at this sentences: as there a man who will
not agree with me that to talk of freedom
without the ballot is mockery-is slavery
to the women of this republic, precisely as
New England's orator, Wendell Phillips, at
the close of the late war, declared 10 be to
the newly emancipated black menu" when
| raised my eyes and saw lady-hke inquire
in a black and gray striped dress, and
Paisley shawl. and sensible bonnet, stand
ing before me, satchel in hand. 1t was Miss
Anthony herself, not shade grayer, not a
whit older in appearance, than when last
saw her. She had just arrived at the
Twenty-second street station, on the Chicago
& Michigan Southern train, having delivered
Last ohh
Harbor yesterday. In few moments she
was relieved of her outer garments by
ready hands, and seated in luxurious
armchair, where she sat bolt upright; for
Susan is not a lean back-die-away sort OF a
woman, no matter how hard she works. We
all gathered around her; Mrs. Jones sat on
her right smiling and elegant in blue silk,
trimmed with chantilly lace, and sparkling
with diamonds; and directly in front of her,
seated on a low fauteuil, was her only
daughter, schoolgirl, and very pretty
one at that; classical preparatory OF last
year, one of the invading young ladies OF
Prof.. Burroughs college, curly-headed,
blue-eyed girl, who is born to radical love
of all that elevates woman. As
MISS ANTHONY ADJUSTED
her gold -bowed glasses and looked from
one to another, her eyes filled with tears.
"Ah!" she exclaimed, in her quick, ner-
vous manner, sit is good to be where there is
love in the atmosphere; it magnetizes you
and gives you strength"
After supper I asked her a direct question:
els woman suffrage as strong an interest as
ever"
Miss Acknowledgement than ever; but
the men call working now, electioneering
with might and main. You see, we never
reach the workingmen, the day laborers.
The politicians are afraid of losing the votes
of those men, and give US the cold shoulder
TO secure them. The working class is not
educated to understand or appreciate uni
versal suffrage. They think women are
well enough as they are,-the greatest mis-
take in the world"
lyon will never have Mr.. Beecher for
leader again, Miss Anthony?"
"We never had any man for leader"
Mrs. Jones-"Oh, yes, Miss Anthony.
There was Theodore Tltoni"
Miss Anthony-"That is so; we did have
him, but only as a mediator; he thought he
could unite the New York body of suffragists
with the Boston clique. The idea of that
boy thinking he could teach his grandmoth-
ersr'
"Was he not available in your work."
sNo man is particularly available, they
know too much-are too Overbearing. They
all want to be autocrats. Mrs, Tilton was
chairman of our executive suffrage associa-
ton for one year. If you viii remember, IN
meeting at which she presided, and said,
That blessed old Susan ran over to me and
said that had done as well as my lord and
master could have DONE You see the most
acceptable praise must be filtered through
mans esteem.n
miss Anthony / began, plunging des-
perately into the middle of the subject at
heart, "you have been through almost all
kinds of scenes since last we met. Almost
in Jail tor voting illegally. Did you pay
your fine?"
"No: and never mean to. The Smith sis
tiers have done more than any Of our con-
ventions by
REFUSING TO PAY THEIR TAXES
when they can not VOTE"
"Win you vote at the next election?"
Miss Anthony-"I would il ! could go
home and register. But I must keep on
with my work in the West"
"Well, Miss Anthony, you only did one
foolish thing; that was when you sat no
Theodore Tilton's knee"
Miss Anthony smiled all over her face,
"well" she said, slowly and with sort of
grim humor. "that was my only lapse from
rigorous virtue. AL the men had declared