National Republican., 1883-01-26
SATISFIED SUFFRAGISTS.
Closing Sessions Of a Successful and Har-
moniOus Convention.
Eloquent Address Of Mrs. May Wright
Sewell, Of Indianapolis.
Pen Pictures Of Some Of the Principal Advocates Of the
Suffrage Movement
Touching Tribute 10 the Venerable Susan
II. Anthony in Mrs. sewell's Speech.

At the executive session of the Woman
Suffrage convention yesterday morning it was
determined to hold the next convention in
this city next January.
The afternoon session was held at 2 p. m.
ut Lincoln hall, and the meeting was called
TO order by Miss Anthony. Several little
girls distributed copies Of Mrs. Cougars
paper, the Lafayette ilnd.) ON Herald, before
tho convention was opened.
Miss Anthony suggested that tho convcn-
tion adopt Quaker custom Of opening with
silent prayer, which was done. Mrs. Jane
G. Mckinney, of Iowa, a pleasant
featured lady made few remarks on the
necessity of the entranchiscment of women.
Mrs. Henrietta Wcstbrook, of Philadelphia,
who was billed for speech, was not present,
So after Mrs. Mckinney had finished Mrs.
Caroline Gilkey Rogers, of Troy, y. y, briefly
advocated the movement, presenting some
rem iniscenccs pertinent to the subject Mrs.
Rogers is rather tall and slender, with pale,
intellectual face and pleasant manner of
telling story. She was dressed in green vel
vet, point lace trimmings, and wore diamonds.
MRS. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD,
the famous Washington lawyer, who seems to
grow younger every year, wore II black velvet
gumcnts any cause she advocates, She ad-
dressed the convention on the " enfranchsc-
ment of the women in Utah" After II gem
eral discussion of the subject she said the
Utah act in its action upon women was unjust
aud inquisitional. The commissioners under
the law did more than conflnc themselves to
the letter of the law aud undertook to enforce
their idea of the intent and to deposc men
from office. This Edmuuds bill disfran-
chised the first wife of a Norman, who, of all
Others should have been guiltlcss She spoke
of Mr. Cassidy, of Nevada, who claims his
bill is aimed ut bigamy and polygamy and
not mt woman suffrage. Mr. Edmunds fol-
lows with II bill amending his former bill, and
she criticised him for using the word fe-
males" by which his bill would apply to dogs
and cats. This bill he proposes to apply to
all the territories.
A letter was read from Mrs. Caroline A.
Briggs, the editor Of the English U'OmdnS Re-
uieuC, of London, discussing
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
The women in Scotland have lately exer-
cised the municipa! franchise for the first
time, while in England they have been voting
for thirteen years. The qualifications for
men and women are absolutely equal (house-
holding and rate paying, anG the lists of
voters are prepared before hand, and exposed
in some public place. Mrs. Briggs further
says:
Nobody doubts now that women vote in large
numbers. III Leicester last November found the
liberals very angry because the wife of con-
servnliye municipal candidate had formed CONF
mitee OF ladies, ana worked 80 successfully among
the women voters that her husband Sis elected.
III Leeds, two years since, II man Of bad moral
character came forward as II candidate. Mrs.
scatchurd went to the "wire pullers of the cleo
ton and asked them to bring forward II better
character. I'VE cannot carry him." they said,
"sgninst the public house interest" But you
have forgotten the women she said. "lf you
AN1 al nh. 4
talk 10 the women electors" They did So and he
was elected.
DIR. Caroline b. Winslow and Mrs. Lucinda
Chandler, both of this city, also addressed the
convention Mrs. Winslow is of medium size
and speaks with force aud emphasis. She was
attired in black silk. Mrs Chandler is an eld-
crly lady, is n thoughtful speaker, and gave
quite suggestive talk. She dresses in gray
cashmere. Miss Couzins, who was billed for
an address, did not speak. At o'clock the
convent "a adjourned until evening.
EVENING SESSION.
1t was tho last session of the convention,
and the audience assembled carly in great
numbers despite the snow that rapidly fell
outside. 1t was picked audience even for
Washingto /. 1t represented Intelligence and
prosperity. 1t shOne in satin and shimmered
in silk. 1t vibrated under velvets in re.
sponse TO the elegant periods of the speakers
and signifed in sealskin, its sympathy with
the sentiments spoken. Nor was taste in or
nament nor elegance in dress its distinguish.
ing characteristics Tho faces that bcamed
upon tho stage scene were, with scarcely an
exception, thoughtful and intelligent
ones, some sparkling with animation,
some "sicRlied DER with the pal,
cast of thought" and all marked with evi
dences of mental cultivation. All ages anC
colors and many different nationaitCs were
present. Old men and women sat silently
thinking of the great social change wrough
i'll the past thirty years by these reformers
while children took in the lesson of the even
ing with intelligent comprehension, ant
quietly applied its moral to themselves
There, too, were gathered colored men an,
women, some too young to remember tho ter
ribe status of their race score of years be
fore, while older ones quietly contrasted th
mighty changes of the past few lustra tina
permitted them TO sit rs equals
WHERE ONCE THEY HAD STOOD AS SLAVES
to encourage an agitation TO which more thai
to any other single influence they owed the
own freedom and self-respect. There, too
were American Indians, civilized and ObserY
ing, gazing with stOical surprise upon thl
scene There were many Foreigners inter
csted listeners beholding the most character
istic differences between their native ant
their adopted country in this assemblage OF
women demanding free admission into tho
aristocracy of men. And Asia also, from its
farthcrest orient, joined her force,
with Europe and Africa and America
and participated in the scene with
eager but intelligent curiosity; for
stray Chnaman had wandered int
the hall, and sat on back seat viewing Will
almOnd-eyed interesta spectacle utterly novel
10 his Turanian soul. The bulk of the au'
dience, however, was American; American OF
the traditional type Most of the faces that
met your glance were the faces of men and
women whose pr0gcnitors for five or six Ol
seven generations had lived and loved and
died on their native soil, Generations of in
herited culture of traditional reverence fol
law and religion, of instincts refined by
climate and strengthened by freedom, had
done their work of producing type of hu
manity unequaled elsewhere, whose moral
excellence was attested by the applause which
greeted most loudly those utterances which
promised or commended elevation of charac
ter and spirituality of thought.
If the audience in this theater was thus
noticeable, not less remarkable were
THE ACTORS IN THE DRAMA
who had called this audience together. In
the middle of the stage, its central parsonage
sat Susan b, Anthony, foremost pioneer of the
movement, genuine type of the aggressive
persistent, and enduring character of Amer
lean progressive civilization. The body, il
not the brain, Of the movement the daring
leader ofa crusade which, in seeking to wres
the holy sepulcher of perfected woman
hood from the inhdel grasp of a sexual caste
has developed more than Tancred virtue
and Heart Of Lion valor--ths woman is the
central figure of u thought which, whatever
may be its final result, is in its conception
cod t., Il I.