New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27
WOMEN WHO WANT TO VOTE.
MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
ADDRESSES BY MRS. LUCY STONE BLACKWELL
MRS. ISABELLA ,BEECHER HOOKER y
oTuERS-EXPERENCE OF A FEMALE

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Washington. Feb. o6.-Thc Woman's National Suffrage
Association begins its twcnty-thin annual convention
,h,s morning. and it will close on sunday. \ large
and,orce s,ceted the ~presiding officer. Miss Susan b..
,,,horv who for the twcnty-third time called the
convention 70 order. A significant feature had been
added 10 the many decorations OF the opera House
This was two large Wyoming state naes' huhg AT inc
hack OF the stage. They are the ola nag WIN 'm'
4. Terence: on the blue ground OF one, instead OF the
forty four stars. there Is a single white stir aHu INV
word .Wyominc': on the blue ground OF the other
40, ,s a e,nrle yellow star. The first is the emblem
~ the onc State giving suffrage to women, and the
yellow star of the second Is the color OF the sshrage
organization.
Tho sossIon opcned with "The New America writ
ton by Mrs. Elizabeth BoyntOn Ilarbcrt, ana sing 10
tbc air OF " America Prayer was offered by the heV'
OLYMPIA Brown. pastor Of the tniversaliSt 'hurch IL
Racine. Wis. Mrs. Ella VI. Marble. president OF the
District OF Columbia suffrage Association. made an al
dross NJ welcome. TO which Miss Anthony bFiefy re
snondcd. The address Of the president, Mrs. Eliza
beth Cadv stanton, was read by MISS Anthony VINO i
the vice president. Mrs. s,anton'S paper was a care
f,,Iv prepared essay on the question OF suffrage Tor
women. and her views were expressed with her usual
vigorous power.
Miss Anthony then introduced Mrs. Lucy stone
blackwell. who. she said. was known to the worIo ~
q great woman before she became Mrs. blackwell ana
t,.rcfore she was stln best known rs Lucy stone
cl.o herself had been converted by Lucy stone nearly
Gny years ago, when the latter was one OF NV
pIoneers at the first convention which was held az
Worcester. Mass. william Lloyd Garrison and WendeiI
pbiIIins w6I7. there, too, ana Horace Greeley pTntel
the account in his great paper, The NeWn"fH LTD
ME. Lucy stone Is always welcomed BY "a'nhspo"
audiences. Her white hair. motherly face. with is
sweet serenity. and gentle persuasive voice mako hl
an attractive speaker. She said she would tank aDon'
Tho changes in regard to women from 1880 to l-'o'
She however. began as far back as her own elrIhood'
and told Of the few fields open to women thch' ana inc
scant wages paid to workngwomen' Nhere u'e"
were half a dozen employments for women then 'he'o
were three mildred now.
There was she said. no college then for women
ovccnt Oherlip. The opinion held WAS that women
uero totally unable - CONFLICT stores or other forms
~ brsiness. Woman had no legal existence. no right
to herself. TO her children nor 70 her money we
found the disadvantages under which sc sl1ereu
LEGALLY and We worked 10 change this. Now q
woman,s condition Is vastly improved. We are getting
wha- We want little by little. We ask that tho
mother nav have tho same right TO her children that
the father has. Tn, vote viii not make a man ~ n
wonEn. but II will give her the ability 10 demand anu
receive many thing, that -hc should. We can con
gratulats ourselves upon what we have accomplished IN
the last fifty years. lut the root OF the evil still
remains, the root at which VIC must all pun s'eadlI''
the root Of acknowledgements
Mr.. Isabella Bcecher Hooker spoke on Women I'm
poluics and Jurisprudcnce.7 she wanted women 10 hc
Judges. 10 serve as Jurors. and when they had snnTnSe
thcy would do 80. Mr.. Hooker proph'slcd that the
admission of women p, voters would do away with
nolitlcal iobbcry. rings and time server. no bAh
mon would be nominated by a party with women
constituents. and when the time came that women had
fine ballot the safety of the Republic would be assured.
As 70 jurisprudcnc".7 she said. tho o1ly way "a
woman can get into the courts i either 10 come a'
a wines, a visitor or "A a criminal ana 'ma III "
RepuLlIc To day women are studying law as well aN
notifies and when they receive the ballot tAey VIII
probablv take their share Of judicial dntc'' the re
marhaLie success Of women I'm wyoming is a proof
NJ the ability OF the female mind Ia carry on the
Judicial duties that are sure 10 dcvolve upon her a.
an carly day. Mrs. Hooker closed her remarks by
in Wvoruiur. giving AN account Of her experiences IN
once. Mrs. Esther Morris, this nrst woman JUSTICE
of the Peace III Cheyenne, Wyo, wrote that she hri
"A husband and three sons. VINO Wcrc nlucH noIc helplH
I'm her official duties. .han they were IN her domestic
Mrs. Hooker said: Naturally men do not care 70
=" Mrs Morris. in her year Of Office, had tried thirty
civil cases, and only one out OF the thlrty had taken
an app,.I' Eleven criminal cases had come before
her aud had been settled without "A trial by Jury
Altogether. Mrs. Hooker declared, TINS woman Justice
Of Tie Peace was doing better even than the sunragiot-
A. his evenings session Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
read a PAPER ON /" The Possibilities OF the American
salon Mrs. Florence Balgdrnic spoke on THE Statu,
of Women in England The Rev. Anna Shaw spok,
on " Indians vcTsu, Women"
Tomorrow morning Senator Carey, OF wyoming, +
10 speak on woman suffrage In wyoming. As The
Senator and his wife are both voters. his speech vii
be Of great interest.