The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-22
Local Weather Report
HELEN WAS HASTH.

Another Story of Mrs. Cougars Attemp, TO
Kick Up Row AT the Congress.
Chicago Times Saturday.
Trying to make @ mountain out Of mole
hill was what q few hysterical women.
aided and abetted by an easily beguiled re-
porter, attempted, yesterday, when they
sought TO make u real live sensation out
or certain proceedings of the w0m-
ans congress- The salient points
OF that fine bit of Imagination
May Wright Sewall forbidding Mrs Gou-
gar to speak In the congresses that Mrs.
Cougar carried the matter before President
BoDney, OF the auxiliary, and that Mr..
ibolney called into conference the
congress-. among them Mrs. SewalI,
who was Mrs. Cougars deadly foe. Long
and loud WAS discussed the situation, and.
though the story fails to state just how the
dispute was settled. Its startling deD0ue-
ment is the sudden flight OF Mrs Sewall TO
the Wild aud woolIy West to ill lecture
engagement
That Mrs. Sewall should for one moment
be placed before the public III such posi-.
tlon Is grlevOus wrong. Mrs. Sewall. as
chairman OF the congress OF representative
women. is the recognized hostess
OF ladies. not only from ev-
cry State In the Union. but from many
foreign lands. The Official representative
OF the King of Norway and Sweden is her
guest. Mrs Sewali 10 the peer in refine
ment and good taste of any woman in the
world. Her management of the congresses
has been characterized by a dehcacy. and a
hne sense af the eternal fitness OF things
which could not be exCellsd.
But there Is q real comedy of errors In
the whole affair. which. If the ina in tive
reporter had not been IN such fearfully
tragic mood, lie mi ht have discovered and
made much OF. There is q rule. instl-
tuted by the committee on programme.
prohibiting certain woman from
speaking In tue cOngrosses. and no one
has ever authorized rule excluding
ever. Mr.. Young, the secretary of the
auxiliary, know of the rule. but didn't
know Mrs. Cougar. so when that lady
called upon him, and In angry tones de-
manded to know if there were such rule
and she she subject OF It, he made up his
mind that rule of that kind would just
about suit the case in hand, and answered
the threatening questIoner In the affirm
alive.
Straightway Mrs Cougar FASTENED to
Rachel Foster Avery secretary OF tn wom-
ans congress, and inOrmed her tina Mrs.
Sewall h0d had ulgatcd an Old or for
bidding her tospenk. Mrs Avery had never
heard OF such an order, but not for one mo-
ment doubling the correctness of Mrs.
Cougars Statements. and. loyal to Mrs
Sewall, told Mrs. Cougar frankly that if
such an order had been issued, il was an
eminently proper thing for Mrs. Sewall To
90. neu t0tre was DlO0Q on the moon.
Mrs. Cougars dearest foe doesn't question
her fighting ability and there was war.
But when Mrs. Vice President Henrotin
quietly informed Mrs. Cougar that
the one woman on the committee
Oh programme to suggest her name
as one proper 60 appear among the list
of speakers was Mrs. May Wright Sewall
all anger vanished and the sweet spirit of
peace brooded o er the scene. and Mrs. Goa-
gar retired. But to cliDcn the thing and
also TO serve as q balm Tor any wound that
might haye resulted from the wordy fray.
the following note was sent TO Mrs. Gou-
gar:
Ny Dear Mira Cougar:
1t has been reported TO me that an order was
issued discriminating against you as q speaker
In the congress OF representative women No
such order was ever ISSUED by the committee In
charge OF the arrangements for congress OF
representative women or by the board OF osgani-
cation, over which have the honor OF presiding
Truly yours, ELLEN II. HENRoIIN,
Vice President W. B. W. G. A.
And the cruel war WAS over