Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-25

are much given to speech making.
personal glorification, and CRITICS NJ
of perfdious men. All they say
they believe and mean and nave said
before. But how could anythipg
new be said on subject that is
thoroughly discussed and exhausted
annually?
Miss Ada Sweet, of Chicago,
whose powers of tenacity were strik-
ingly illustrated in defence of her
Office of pension agent in that city,
was prominent among the delegates
to the convention. She is young,
good-looking, self possessed, and
can make speech, which she did,
relating her experience with insane
asylums, and giving her opinion
that they should at least be partly
under the management of women.
Mrs. Sewell, of indianapolis, is
one of the pillars of the sisterhood.
She is not prepossessing in appear
ance, but probably as much so as
the law of the association approves.
Her adornments were limited to
bangs. This concession to frivolous
fashion in no wise detracted from
Mrs. Sewell's formidable physiog-
nomy, however, nor from her use
fulness to the cause. She had a
good deal TO say about hardened
Congressman and indurated Sena-
tors, but she thought the consciences
Of these gentlemen less at fault than
their intelligence. She regretted
that it was impossible to sum up the
benefits already accomplished by
the suffrage movement, but thought
the same might be said of the sun
light. She made really eloquent
flight at this point, comparing suf-
frage to sunlight,
Mrs. Sewell was followed by Mrs.
Perkins, of Ohio, a sister of uncom-
promising demearor, who typifies
the righteousness of the movement;
as Mrs. Shattuck, of Boston, repre-
sents its esthetic phase. Mrs. Per
kins was sternly statistical on this
occasion, although she has ornate
resources, which she displayed dur
ing the sessions of the convention.
She discoursed at one time upon the
ladies of society, whose walk and
conversation she does not approve,
using number of Scriptural quota
tions. She has tendency to be
caustic in her public utterances.
Men, she said, think women good
enough to be angels, but not good
enough to be citizens. They pray
so fervently for Providence to bless
women, that they leave it chiefly for
Providence to do
Mrs Clay Bennett, a representa-
tive Of the Blue Grass state and a
relative of Henry Clay, vowed her
fidelity to the cause, and made
spirited address on the "Constitu-
tonal Right of Women to Vote and
Hold Office" Mrs. Bennett may be
said to represent the ground where
on trippery and strong mindedness
meet and unite. Her costume was
neither frivolous nor funereal, but
it was eahail,e, and her gloves were
q la Bernhard. Her oratory and
elocution we're, like herself, Ken
tuckian
Senator Vest underwent unutter-
able things at the hands of Mrs.
Meriweather, Of Missouri, for hav-
ing expressed himself as an "uucom-
promising opponent Of the woman
suffrage movement. Nine. Neyman,
of New York, who has a iue leu
tonic face, closed the convention
proceedings with q clever and com
prehensiyc paper on the comparative
independence of German aud Amer
lcan women.
The bill now before the Senate
looking to the eufranehisement of
women is a source Of great comfort
to the members Of the association
who have been waiting and working
to this end so long. Because Of it
they attached unusual significance