Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-22
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
Second Day Of Their National Suffrage
Convention.

KENT, Mr.. BLUE, OF KANSAS, EFT AL. ON 1.-THE
BOSTON vIcroRY"-rHE CATHOLIC CHURCH, ETC.
The second days session of the annual con-
vention of the National woman's suffrage as
ISOLATION was held at the Congregational
church this morning. The.audience was not so
prompt in attendance as yesterday and the
number present was not quite as large Miss
Anthony came in q few minutes after 10
O'Clock. She wore a shawl of black and white
stripes in place of her favorite red shawl In
calling the convention to order she invited the
delegates and others to take seats near the
platform. In introducing the first speaker,
Rev. Alexander Kent, of the Universalist
church, of this city, Miss Anthony spoke Of him
as a man who had declared himself in favor of
this movement.
REV. MR.. KENTs ADDRESS.
Mr.. Kent read his remarks from manuscript.
and said that he would address himse If to the
men, although, he added, he was sorry that
more were not present. He then made q strong
plea for the restoration of the right to woman
to govern herself This. he claimed, was a
universal right of individuals, and therefore
belonged to women as much as to men. This
right of woman to the ballot is the true ground
for the claim now made that it should be given
to her. He expressed his regret that there
were so few woman suffrage men, but he
thought it mainly due to the large number
OF MAN SUFFRAGE WOMEN.
The opinion was very generally entertained
that women do not want the ballot. He thought
that women could do great deal toward re-
moving that impression. II the condition Of
woman was true, as claimed by the advocates of
women's suffrage, then she was mentally a
slave. He expressed the hope that just solu-
az y,
While Mr.. Kent was speaking several of the
ladies came in and shared with Miss Anthony
the dignity OF seats on the platform.
TWO PROMINENT MEN.
Frederick Douglass and his wife were among
the audience, and presently Judge Kelley. the
distinguished Representative in Congress from
Pennsylvania, walked quietly in and made his
way toward the platform. He stopped on his
way to shake hands with Mr. Douglass. and
then. ascending the platform, was warmly well
coined by Mrs. Sewall, Miss Anthony, and
others. Mr.. Kelley remained an attentive list
ener of Mr.. Kent's argument.
TRIBUTE TO MISS WILLARD.
Mrs. Caroline Howell Miller, of Maryland.
was announced by Miss Anthony as wishing to
occupy some five minutes sin her Quaker
style" Mrs. Miller came forward and said
that she had been invited to make a
formal speech to the convention. but
she had declined, because she believed
that the time had passed for talk. What was
needed now was concerted action. She said
that she did not think it necessary to go over
the old ground of suffrage argument. But she
had felt herself called out by some newspaper
statement she had seen relative to Miss Willard,
the president of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union, and she then proceeded to pay
an eloquent tribute to the life and services of
this well-known temperance worker.
MISS ANTUoNy J<TRoDuCEs JrrpcE Errrrv
Miss Anthony, in introducing Representative
Kelley, said that she was proud to introduce
him to this audience. He had not only taken
a stand in his own state in favor of the political
equality of women, but in Congress. He was.
she said, the veteran member of the House, not
In the sense OF having reached the age of three
score and ten
'.You would be perfectly correct" inter-
rupted the judge.
The ladies smiled and Miss Anthony took her
eeat.
THE VETERAN PENNSYLVANIA STATESMAN TALKS
TO THE LADIES.
Judge Kelley then arose, and amid the
applause of the ladies came to the front of the
platform, and, holding his hands behind his
back, began to talk in a familiar STYLE He
said that he would not go over the arguments
in favor of the political equality of women. He
thought, however, that a woman (referring to
his mother) who had been left widow with a
dependent family and had reared them with
success ought not to be the inferior of the rep
resentatives from the slums of a city. He
wished, he said TO speak of the progress made
In this movement. and referred to an address
which he had made in Philadelphia in the year
1871 in favor of women's political equality. At
that time he did not know that there was an
organization in the country formed for the pur-
pose OF agitating this question. As the recol-
lections of the judge went back he observed
that he might well be called
THE VETERAN OF THE HOUSE.
and he added that in a few months he would
be three score and fifteen years of age He
spoke of having heard Fanny Wright. the
English agitator, when he was a boy. and
being, as he said, born agitator himself he
began to study this question. He said he had
well-known English writer, which had great
influence in shaping his views. How, he asked,
had Miss Willard became a suffragist Not he
was convinced, by studying abstract principles,
to push temperance reform She found that
the true method was to bring the temperance
work under the suffrage movement He re-
ferred to the exercise of woman suffrage in
Wyoming and Kansas and in the review of the
past sixty years he could see
THE SIGNS OF GREAT PROGRESS.
He spoke of the grange as the means of edu-
eating women out of the belief that the true
place o. women was in the kitchen He pre-
dicted that the united efforts of women in all
the departments in which her energies were
directed would result not only i'm benefit to the
world but in the advancement of woman her
SELF
Miss Anthony thanked Judge Kelley for
speaking of the early days of the movement
MRS. sHATTUCK ON 1.-THE VICTORY IN BOSTON"
The fresh, attractive face of Mrs. Harriette
r. Shattuck of Massachusetts,, SO familiar to
attendants at these conventions, next smiled
upon the audience. She proceeded to speak
of 1.-The victory in Boston," where, as she said
the mothers of Boston, aroused by the fear for
the safety Of the public schools, united in the
recent municipal election and won a great VIC
tory. The speaker said that this victory was
not won by the old-time suffragists, but by the
women whom they have been trying to interest
in the movement for women's rights. They
little thought the public schools would be the
rallying point for the cause, but such was the
case. They also found that the women Of the
Protestant churches were on their side.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION IN BOSTON,
Mrs. Shattuck then spoke of the cause of the
recent school agitation in Boston and said it
was due to the objection of the Catholics to a
reference in a school history to the sale of in
dulgences This book was abolished as a school
book and q history was substituted which had
been approved by the Blatterni plenary coun-
Gil. This latter book. she said did not teach
tartan standpoint. The question at issue was
whether the children should be taught the
truth of history. She argued that the attempt
on the part of anv church to manage the