Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-19

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SUSAN B. ANTHONY
If yesterday was Mrs. stantons day today be-
| longed to Saint Anthony, as her followers love
to call her. She held the gavel today as vice
president Of the association in the absence Of
Mrs Stanton, president, who sailed for England
TINS morning. Saint Anthony was in good
voice and never more enthusiastic than she
was today. As she sat by the speaker desk clad
in handsome dress of black silk with .
white shawl drawn over her shoulders she was
| the life and soul Of the meeting. On the desk
was a large bunch OF flowers sent by some adj
mirer and over the corner of the desk WAS
draped a large piece Of yellow silk, the colors
OF the cause. Miss Anthony showed that she
was not entirely without experience as an exe-
| cutive officer by the way she handled the body
| under her control.
FROM THE VARIOUS STATES
The first part of the morning session was de.
voted to hearing reports from the various
states. Clara Bewick Colby, editor Of the
Woman's Tribune, was called upon to speak for
Nebraska, but it seemed she was absent, occu-
pied in getting out the convention number of
her paper and Nebraska received no attention.
Eugenia .. Farmer of Covington, KY, secre-
tary OF the Kentucky equal rights association,
gave an interesting account Of the progress Of
the good work in her state.
Maine had no representative present to speak
for her.
PROGRESS IN NEW YORK.
Harriet Purvis of Philadelphia read the re-
port for Pennsylvania.
Miss Lille Devereux Blake Of New York
spoke for her state, and spoke at length too, for
the secretary had to call her to time after she
had said only part Of whatshe wished She asked
permission to keep on, but Saint Susan would
| only allow her to finish her sentence In the
| course OF her ramarka sho told ~ fba
women are doing in their own behalf before
the state senate and the kindly treatment they
received at the hands Of the Albany statesmen.
| There was a time" said Mrs. Blake, "when
the committee to which our measures were re-
| ferred invariably failed to report upon them
| That time is passed now, however, and no COM
| mittee would dare to refuse a report Of some
sort. Our measures may be killed in the Sem
ate, but they are never killed in committee.
We are allowed upon the floor of the Senate
and have fair chance to argue our points be-
| fore the Senators themselves and are not
| obliged to look down upon them from distant
galleries as our sisters in Massachusetts,. We
may not get all we want from them, but we do
get at them, at any rate"
| She told Of the needs of her state and the
! work being done, and bewailed the fact that
| there were not more chances for female
| workers. She said that there was not q single
police matron in the many police stations Of
| New York and Brooklyn, although there was
| urgent need of such officers.
OTHER STATES.
Miss Harriette R Shattuck, vice president of
| the Massachusetts woman's rights association,
spoke for the eastern section of her state while
| DIR. Henry B. Blackwell of Boston also had
| something to say for the Bay state association.
| Mrs. Clara A. McDiarmid of Arkansas
spoke for Arkansas and the Rev.
| Olympia Brown waxed eloquent over
| the needs Of the cause in Wisconsin From
| this she soon reached the needs Of the cause in
general and gave our legisatorsa severe rating
| for not granting to women the rights that the
Constitution guaranteed, but unfortunately had
| failed to confer.
SONG OF PRoPHEsY.
Here Miss Anthony stepped forward and re-
quested to be allowed to break the regular
course Of the program while Miss johnson ia
| vored the audience with a song. This was re-
ceived with applause and Miss johnson. a very
pretty young lady In dress of sage
green cashmere, trimmed with silk,
| came forward and sang a sweet song
| This was loudly applauded. and she was obliged
| to sing once more.
Saint Susan in announcing the name of the
| encore, The Angel Come" remarked that they
| frequently do come when we have . chance to
| hear such music.
| COMPLAINT FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
Miss Anthony then announced the subject for
| tic uloTuiuB ulsCuSslOu 10 De line attitude OF
this association toward political parties and in
| PRODUCED the first speaker, Alice NJ. Picker of
| South Dakota. Mrs. Picker, in the course of
her remarks, said that one of the facts most to
be regretted Ill her new state was that the uni
| versity and agricultural college, in both of
| which women had equal rights with men, were
| governed entirely by men, Her remarks were
very brief, she was only up to open the cues
| ton.
| REPUBLICAN MUawuMp WITH DEMOCRATIC
| PRoCLIvITIEs.
Rev. Frederick A. Hinckiey Of Massachusetts,
said: I'm my opinion this association should
urge its rightful demands upon all parties, but
! have no entanglng alliances with any of them.
| Whatever / may be elsewhere-in fact am
/ really republican mugwump with democratic
proclivities-on this platform l am first, last
| and all the time woman suffragist. We are
here, perhaps, with divisions upon every
/ other question, excepting only that of equality
Of rights. To keep from breaking up
| We must have platform with equal rights for
| it's only plank. In a country where the right
| OF government rests upon the consent OF the
| governed there can be no room for debate as
| to the propriety Of equal rights. Our question
il af fundamental one. Let us rest our whole cause
upon the great American principle Of brother
| hood. But 1t Ia not question Of individual
| standing with various parties, but as to the re-
lation We as a party will bear to other parties,
| Therefore say in closing let US insist first and
| nh viz tttaS upSu TIC EtBut VI WOUlAu suffrage,
but let us not make any entangling connec-
| tions with any of the great parties"
| STICKING TO THE POINT.
Mr.. VIM. Dudley Foulke Of Indiana was in
troduced and, though not down on the regular
program, made few interesting remarks, in
which he said he was in favor OF the general
tenor of the speech OF Rev. Mr.. Hinck-
ley. He said that in his opinion
| the time had not yet come
| when il was advisable for them as an organize
| ton to cast their influence with any of the or
binary political questions, but should insist
solely upon the main point at issue.
Short speeches were made by Mrs. Fray Of
Toledo, Ohio. Rev. Olympia Brown Of Wiscon-
sin, Mrs. Shea Of Kentucky, Mrs Isabella
Beecher Hooker and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
In the remarks Of Mrs Fray and Mrs. Shea
there was slight tendency to sectional feeling,
which was immediately rebuked, politely but
firmly, by Mira Howe. Mra. May Wright
| Sewen urged the association to be abso-
lately Indifferent to the advances Of any of the
| political parties ~ party.
Mrs. Blake, Mr.. Blackwell and Mrs. Root of
Michigan also made remarks and at o'clock
| the morning session adjourned after resolving
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