Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-12
THEIR SILVER WEDDING.

National Woman suffrage Association VIII
Celebrate Its rwenty-vifth Anniversary.
The t~enty-ffth annual convention Of the
National-American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton viii begin on Monday next at Me.zerost's
Music Hall. A religious service will be held on
Sunday afternoon Public sessions will be held
at 10 and $50 each day and at o'clock each
evening. closing on Thursday. Some Of the
advance guard Of delegates are already here.
The pioneer Of them all certainly Is in the per-
son Of Miss Susan B. Anthony. The suffrage
movement since IL rose to the dignity Of hold
ing conventions will celebrate its twenty-ffth
birthday this year. Miss Anthony represents
in her active personality every phase Of the
great question Of Acknowledgement Of women,
and the years roll over her head they leave
her only more determined TO bring her hfe's
work 10 . successful issue.
TALK WITH MISS ANTHONY.
STAR reporter called on her yesterday at
the rooms OF the Suffrage Association, 1923
street. Miss Anthony il looking younger and
stronger than she did ten wears ago II II was
not for the fact that she publicly celebrated her
SEVENTEEN birthday In this city some years ago
one could scarcely suppose that Aunt Susan"
had more than passed middle life. Her form lie
g. erect, her movements active ever, and
In conversation she Is Just o. convincing in her
sfkumcut- sne was tVentV-uVe years age.
To the question TO what the suffragists
wanted this year her reply characteristic:
I'VE just want TO be let alone. ALI the under
lying principles Of our government in
tended equally for women well men. In
tsrpret these principles rightly and the women
will be citizens that is all We want The
suffrage movement in . quarter Of . century |
has passed successfully through a period Of
stormy opposition After that came indifer- |
ence. We are passing out of that stage now |
ali int
success"
INCREASE OF surTARoE ASSOCIATIONS
Suffrage associations are now formed in |
thirty-one states. this District and in Utah. with |
1900 members. The idea has grown largely |
in the south. Missouri stood alone for many
years. At the coming convention there will be /
delegates from eight southern states.
Two very marked strsws in showing how the |
wind b blowing up in New York state the
Recommendation Of Gov. Flower that In the /
coming election to appoint delegates for the
constitutional convention TO be held in that
state in 1894 women must be delegates as well
n men. and the right Of women to vote at the
next election fOi county school commissioners.
Everybody who has followed the suffrage
question for wears begins TO miss the names of
the old leaders from the program. The
younger element Is coming to the front, and
the older women are very proud of them In
many cases they are the granddsughters of
cause.
SOME NOTED ADVOCATES.
Rev. Anna +. Eastman Of New York, who
will preach the opening sermon at the meeting
next Sunday afternoon, is the wife Of a MN
lister. His health failed and she studied
theology and now pre-ides over a good parish.
Alice Stone Blackwell, Rachel Foster Avery,
Harriet Taylor Upton. Ellen Bsttrelle Dietrich
well known and will contribute to the pro-
ran dlrtUR rhas han 1
man of New York, who will make an address,
"Comparisons Are Odious," was a newspaper
writer in California and becoming interested in
working girls turned her attention to helping
them She found she could make no Roadway
without the ballot. Therefore she came into
the suffrage ranks Mrs. Senator Galinger.
Mrs. senator Dolph, Mrs Representative
Greenlsaf. Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Carey. wives
Of the Wyoming Senators, will all be present
NJ the convention
MISS sSrHoSY's CAPACITY FOR WORK.
Miss Anthony can tire out all the young
people in her ability for work. From now IN
al the convention meets and from that till its
elose she will be one Of the busiest women in
this city. Yesterday the Albany legislature
confirmed her nomination as one Of the man.
ayers Of the state Industrial School at Roch-
ester. Rochester is her native city and when
there IL q question of paving any honors to its
favorits sons aud daughters Miss Anthony is
always way mp in the line. Miss Anthony had
considerable to do with the Kansas cyclone.
Her dissertations on politics in that state are
entertaining to the last degree. They can fight
all they want out in Kansas, but so long as the
republicans and populists keep a strong
suffrage plank in their platforms Miss
Anthony cordially indorses them As an
evidence of her interest Miss Anthony will |
propose in the coming convention that the
strongest batteries among the women suffra-
gi-ts be turned on Kansas this year. Miss
Anthony has written Mrs. Lease that she con-
siders her better qualified for the United States
senatorshiP than any man in the peoples
party.