Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-17
TIE CAUSE OF WOMEN.
Addresses and Repcrts Made 1T Metserost
Hall Today.

EFFORTS MADE TO sEctsE TIE AID OF -HE
PREss-A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION FROM A wo-
MAN wRrrER-MIss ANTBoSr AND THE LEO
TuRERs-PRooRAN FOR THIS EVENING.
When the woman suffrage convention was
called TO order this morning at 1918 il an
easy matter TO count the bonneted heads in
Metzerott Hall. 1t was a good deal easier to
count the mems heads. for il could have been
done without getting past the fingers OF one
hand. In FIVE minutes after Miss Anthonys
gavei had resounded through the emptiness of
the big hall another glimpse of the hall showed
that it was dotted all over with both men and
women, although the latter were far in the ma
jority.
Miss Lucy Anthony had occupied herself be-
forehsnd in placing the little yellow state BAN
| ners round in their proper places, so that al
the delegations found each other in close prox-
unity. This little arrangement Is business like,
but it encourages sociability. so much so that
Miss Susan b. Anthony had TO read two OF three
short lectures on the evils of whispering before
| she could get the convention down to business.
| Todays sessions were very interesting. The
matters under discussion brought to the sur
| face almost unlimited quantity of individual
| opinion, and representing the ways that people
| of different sections were looking AT things
kept the attention of the audience very closely.
vIRoISIA's REPRESENTATIVES.
The first speaker was Mrs. Henderson Dain-
gerfield of Virginia, who said that she WAS one
Of the many women suffragists in heI part of
! the south. and she invited all the Virginians to
| meet with her to form an association. She Was
unable to get them together for that purpose
until late this afternoon. but it looked as if the
sun would not go down today without there
being regularly accredited delegate from the
| old commonwealth to legislate for her during
| the future sessions of the convention.
! The unfinished business left over last night
was the discussion of various amendments to
| the constitution. Mrs. Avery. Miss Blackwell
| and other ladies took part in the debate. These
amendments had TO do with the number of del
| ega rs who could ask for a vote on any subject
before the convention. Five the number
decided upon. The Office of national lecturer
was abolished and the .womans lecture bureau
Endorsed.
THE LECTURERS.
This brought out a statement from Miss
Susan Anthony that she had been accused of
showing preference to one lecturer above
other. but that on the contrary her idea of a
woman lecturer was whether or not people
wanted to listen to her. Miss Lucy Anthony.
who has charge OF the woman's lecture bureau.
| said that all the engagements that she had
made for Rev. Anna Shaw were personal and
business matters between themselves and that
she had not acted as the agent of the Suffrage
Society.
Mrs. Greenleaf of New York created little
merriment by insisting that the lecturers opln-
ion Of her own ability should not be considered
as important anything her audiences might
have said Of her.
Another amendment adopted last night that
FOR the future the conventions shall be held in
this city during the first session of each Con-
gress, and the alternate years in other cities TO
be selected was only lightly touched upon. 1t
has met with general favor.
THE PRESS AID THE CAUSE
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio made an
excellent report on the work of the press COM
mittee, which was loudly applauded.
In the discussion which followed each state
delegation was asked to tell something of what
it had done or intended doing in getting suf-
fraSe doctrine or womans Advancement along
any line in the daily prints.
Mrs. B.akeley OF Connecticut said that her
eta'e papers would print all the suffrage matter
and one had given her q column in q weekly
issue for that and nothing else, but the matter
had to be made up in a newsy manner.
Miss Anthony said, in other words. give them
an ounce OF fact, not pounds of theory-news,
and not philosophy.
Miss Doolittle of the District association SAID
it ought to be somebody's business TO prepare
once week some suffrage items for circulation
through the United Press
Mrs. Picker Of South Dakota said that there
were plenty smart women III her state to keep
the papers informed of the advance in suffrage
matters.
Mrs. Chamberlain of Florida. Mrs Dubose of
Georgia said the papers in their section were
pretty liberal in space unless pressure of adj
yertising forbid. This too in face of the fact
that sometimes suffrage doctrine did not suit
their readers either
Mira 90
her state recognized that the press was the
Corliss engine of modern society and they had
not lost any opportunities to keep up the steam
on suffrage matters.
Mrs. Waugh of Indiana q young woman of
charming address, told about literary and suf-
frage society in Thin, her town, which Was di-
vided in membership and officers equally be-
tween the sexes. AT first it was not intended
that men should hold Office. but they had behave
so docile that they gladly elected them to high
places. AT the meetings suffrage doctrines
are given in homeopathic Doses but continu-
ously. and report Of their meetings is aiways
provided and always printed in the daily
papers.
ONE COLUMN ENOUGH FOR HER,
Miss Laura Clay had word to say which
showed that Kentucky was not being overlooked
in having the good word printed She said that
she ran a suffrage column in a prohibition
paper. Some one interrupted Miss CLAY and
asked why she d,d not take entire Charge OF
press work in her state
Don't, please, ladies. That one column I
write pretty nearly kills me. / never could
understand how editors live
Mrs. Bailey Of Maine said there were plenty
OF capable women writers in her state.
Mrs Marilla Kicker put in a good word for
New Hampshire and what its newspapers were
doing TO help along suffrage. As an evidence
she said that recently New Hampshire woman
was almost elected a state attorney in Montana
DIR. Mary Hussey and Mrs. De Witt of Orange.
n j., said that they had made visits to MANY
editorial sancturls.
Mrs. Seiger told how her tactics has brought
all the big dailles in Toledo in the suffrage pro-
cession.
Miss Daingerfield Of Virginia. a bright pretty
young woman, who stood very seif-r assessed as
| she made short address, told how she man.
aged the papers in her state. She said 1t was
not all such plain sailing, for woman suffrage
by any other name in Virginia sounded sweeter
The last word, full OF wisdom as an egg is of
meat, came from Clara Quigley MUIR hy, editor
of the Womans Recorder, Toledo. Ohio She
told the delegates that newspapers wanted
news, live stuff, newspapers call it. and il
did not need essays. She advised everybody
to boil down and extract the news from all they
would write and then it would have some show
to get printed
AUXILIARY SOCIETIES.
Reports of presidents of auxiliary state
societies were made by Miss Laura Clay Of