The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-01
THE WOMEN's COUNCIL.
Indiana Is HonOred Through Her Representa-
tiYes, Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Sewall.
pecisl 70 the Indianapolis JournaI.

! Special 60 the Indianapolis Journal.
| WASHINGTON, March 31.-There are several
very interesting ladies from Indiana in attend
| ance at the international Council Of Women
that meets ut Albaugh's Opera-house, in this
place. This convention is perhaps one of the
most successful from every point of view that
has ever taken place here The opera-houss
has a seating capacity, as I was informed By
Mr.. Albaugh, of twenty four hundred. and
every seat Is filed nightly. with standing room
taken. and almost as full an attendance in the
morning at % and so cents.
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace ard Mrs. May Wright
Sewall, the two delegates. from Indiana. are
accompanied by several others from their State.
Miss Dunlap, Miss Bette New and Miss leila
LeAthers, three most charming young ladies'
from Indianapolis; Miss Johnson of New All.
hRny, chaperoned by her mother and several
ladies from Bloomington.
1t is good womans rights speech in itself
for one who attended the suffrage meetings IL
the old Lincoln Hall years ago, when policemen
were stationed on every side TO keep order, to
note the difference now. Twenty-four hundred
ladies and gentlemen. the most of them from
the ranks of those who at that time drew their
skirts aside lest they be contaminated suf
fragist passed by, now sitting interested lis
teners to the same women, and NOT an officer in
sight but those OF the building and. the ushers.
Then they begged newspapers to report them,
even though the report too often a cariaca-
ture and vehicle for sneers. Now they be-
seged BY correspondents begging for interviews
and photographs, with kilograms pouring in
from headquarters to the local staff with in
structions.
Two large group pictures of the executive
committee and the foreign delegates have been
taken by Brady, and will be engraved for Les
lies newspaper.
Invitations and attentions of all kinds have
been showered upon these noble women, and
none of the convention have received more at
tention than Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Sewall
correspondent found her transacting business
and at the time entertaining numerous
callers-wiyes of Senator'S, Representatives and
other people of the sort-with q table
loaded with congra tulstory letters and invita-
tions that she cannot ever read half
the time One to the Six O'clock Club, on Thurs
day. to visit President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Friday, reception at Senator Palmers Monday,
another st Senator Stanfords Tuesday, and SO
on to the END of the chapter. These things
show how Indianas representative women are
honored by the representative people hero. Mrs.
Wallace and Mrs. Sewan will entertain the In
diana congressional delegation aud their friends
one evening next week.
Mrs. Wallace Is one OF the most wonderfully
eloquent women | have heard address an
audience. This may be due to the fact that she
always speaks from her heart well from
her lips lie would be as utterly impossible for
her to speak OF that which did not move her, as
IL would be were she dumb She addressed the
Kit Cars Post last Wednesday evening. and,
as usual, carried off share of the
honors, although such big lions as Senator In
gals and w. A. Crofut addressed the meeting
In her plain, almost Quaker-like attire beside
the other ladies. arrayed Ia mode. the grandeur
of her strong, sweet face alone enough to
mark her distinction. In her speech at this
like gathering, with its days aud martial music,
she carried the war into Africa and gave them a
stirring exhortntion against brute-force in gov
ernment While laudine the men, who accepted
the situation ana maintained il at the risk OF
their lives. she still deprecated the idea of war
and prophesied that through the influence OF
women would find some wiser and better
method for settling cur difficulties She claimed
that woman should have voice IN this matter.
because she sacrificed much and even more,
in the war, than man; for. while he rsked him
self. she risked than herself when she
gave husband aud TO the cause.
The influence this noble exerted
her now famous son illustrated by little
story she told in this speech,
just before the broke ont said she,
my came 10 me and said: Mother there is
going TO be war Nonsense said l. That will
never be- Sumter was fired on and he came
,gain. Our flag has been insulted at FIT Sum,
ter said he. Mother. which side are you onF
i 20 with the stars and STRIPES, my son.
And the good son who came 10 his mother for
'ympathg went the same road, The Journal
correspondent remembers how. almost ten years
go. this brave woman addressed the w. g. T.