National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-07

did not think women ought to have the Same
rights and privileges as mon. He answered
wcll; don't think anybody could tell Whlch
way 1t was he answered. but it was very po-
lite"
Miss Anthony's clever way of expressing
tho Presidents concommttal responses eN-
cited much laughter in the audience. Miss
Anthony then said that she relieved the
United States marshal of the disagreeaOle
duty of introducing the delegates; SeVerai
of them made remarks to the President. One
said that sine should never be satisfied until
n president should be in the white house
whose wife should be an avowed woman
suilragist. The treasurer OF the association
said that she should never be satisfied until
woman occupied the white house as president.
80 we came away" said Miss Anthony,
"baying been treated with tho utmost polite
ness and as finely pleased as arc the numer-
Gus delegations of men Of all classes who go
to cali upon the President"
Miss Anthony then told how many times
that same performanCe of calling upon the
president had been gone through with, ana
always with the same result. She concluded
that If the women callers had represented
voting constituency thoy would have made
greater impression and have received more
positive answers.
Mr.. Edward NJ Davis was introduced and
made tho report of progress in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Davis is a pleasant-faced old gentleman,
of medium size, with full grey beard and
mustache and thin grey hair. Miss Anthony
introduced him as the son-in-law of the VEN
cradle Lucretia Mott, and nearer to that lady
than any other person MIR. Davis stated that
Pennsylvania was o very sleepy state and was
quite slow in the matter of woman suffrage.
He gave detailed account of the unsuccess-
full attempt of q lady to practice law in Penn
sylvania. He said the woman sufiragists OF
Pennsylvania had incurred odium and
became unpopular because they preached
nothing else but woman suffrage. He seemed
to think, however, that their course was
right. He suggested that the woman suf-
fragsts go in with the greenback-labor party
and thereby prevent either the republicans
or democrats from electing president, and
throw the choice into the house of represent
atives
Mrs. Jessie NJ. Welstood, of Edinburgh,
made q report from Scotland. She was a
rather short and stout old lady with q kind,
good motherly face and o sweet voice with
Little Britannia accent. She wore black
brocade silk Dress and black bonnet tied
with broad white ribbons covered most of her
white hair. She read an address from manu-
script looking up freqently and out through
her spectacles at the audience in benignant
way, as ii oil tho people present were her
grandchildren. She spoke very deliberately
and clearly, without any attempt at oratori-
cal effect. She gave long, clear, and de-
tailed history of the efforts of the women of
Scotland to obtain the privilege of voting
They have succeeded in obtaining the right
to vote in the school ana municipal elections,
and in the choice of parochial guardians
They now have to obtain only the right to
vote for members OF parliament.
Mrs. Shattuck sang a song.
Mrs. Bertha ii. Ellsworth, of Lincoln Cen
ter Kan. read the report for Kansas. Mrs.
Ellsworth was a small, black haired woman,
with o sallow face. The face was intelligent,
but neither healthy nor happy. Her report was
E,.II e - af
women In tho professions and trades, and in
such parts of government as the men al
lowed to them. She said that the women of
Kansas were peculiarly fortunate in that the
constitution Of the state gave them nearly
equal property rights. She closed her report
with the recitation of an original poem.
Mrs. Nelson, Of Minnesota, read the report
of Sarah Berger Stearns, vice president of the
association for Minnesota. Some remarks
made by Miss Anthony concerning the
necessity for speaking loud enough to be
heard induced Mrs. Nelson to pitch her
voice on painfully high key. Mrs. Nelson's
face was more Scotch than that of the Edin-
burgh woman, Mrs. Welstood, and her general
appearance was that of q well-to-do farmers
wife. The report consisted of a history of
tho temperance work Of the minnesota
women and of their various unsuccessful
attempts to make the Minnesota men give
them a chance to vote. After reading the
report Mrs. Nelson made a bright extempo-
raneous speech. She told in it why she
wanted the ballot. She said she was q mis-
sionary and farmer. She remarked that she
had raised some calves on her farm and
thought herself in much better business than
in raising boys, who, when they grew up and
had mustache should undertake to teach
their mother how to be woman. number
of other sharp filings at the men were re-
ceved with much applause and laughter.
Like the previous speaker, she closed with
the recitation Of poem.
The afternoon session closed with the read
ing, by Mrs Harbert, of the preamble, decla-
ration Of principles, and resolutions, published
in THE REPUBLICAN, yesterday morning, and
brief discussion upon them.
There were not seats enough in the hall for
the people who came to hear the speeches in
the evening. As usual, there was q great
majority of ladies in the audience, but there
was a fair sprinkling of the people whom the
speakers have charged with an unjust and
selfish absorption of all the privileges Of the
nation.
The first speaker was May Wright sewall,
of indianapolis. Miss Sewsll's subject was,
The Forgotten Woman" The burden of the
argument was that in most of his proceedings
man omitted to remember that there were
any women in existence. She reviewed the
action, up to date, of the present do-nothing
congress and urged that there was nothing in
the Congressional Record to show that the
legislators had such weighty subjects on their
minds as to make them forget women. Mrs.
Sewall alluded, with much sarcasm, to the
careful manner in which congressman have
lodged everything which might be
of importance. The public Off
cials she urged, found nothing better
to do than to oppose the desire of one woman
to be steamboat captain The debating
societies of the country, she found, were
busying themselves with prehistoric man to
the exclusion of contemporary woman. Sew
eral congressman had wearily told her that
they were sick of this congressional life
because there was now no opportunity for a
man to make reputation. She assured
them that in this great moral reform there
was abundant opportunity to acquire the
reputation as the emanCipator of woman
that Abraham Lincoln acquired as the eman'
cipator of the negro.
When Miss Sewall is at home, in Indian,
apolis, she teaches school, edits two columns
OF tho Sunday edition of the Indianapoli!
Times, and delivers parlor lectures upon
woman suffrage. II would seem that
woman must be strong in body as we'll al
mind TO fulfill all these duties, and Mrs
Sewall appears not to have suffered either in
body or mind from the exercise. She Is one
Of the very few plump delegates in the con-
Vention. She is an easy speaker, steps to the
extreme front of the platform, and keeps hei
eyes upon tho audience, neither reading
lecture nor consulting notes. She has a clear
voice, expressive face, aud talks with thC