Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-18
THE SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.
Reports Heard Today From Many State
Auxiliaries.

PROCEEDINGS AT NErzERorT HALL-rHE NEW
SOCIETIES IN THE sourH-woRK DONE on rHr
PACIFIC sLoPE-AppREssEs THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT.
Today was q southern day at the woman's
Suffrage Association. Even Metzerott Hall had
warmed up in anticipation Of the treat in store
and the ladies found it pleasant to sit without
their heavy wraps.
On the whole the convention proceedings
gave both delegates and audience a nice
comfortable morning. There were fresh
flowers on the platform. Two pretty
little bushes full Of pink and white azales
blooms and a bouquet of pink rose buds
distracted the attention for a minute from the
ladies who sat there to preside as well to
adorn the rostrum.
Rev. Anna shaw presided for the first part
of the session and made interesting per-
sonage in that position as she is in every other
she selects.
When Miss Susan B. Anthony came in she
took hold and ''bossed' the meeting to the en-
tire satisfaction Of everybody else, as well as
herself, till the adjournment at Ills.
REPORTS FROM AUNILIARIEs.
Reports from presidents of auxiliary state So
cieties occupied the entire meeting. as more
| southern states were ready to be heard from
than other sections Of the country there
were visions Of magnolia and orange groves
and the palmetto and the Pine dangling
before the delegates in the incest sort of a way
| The temperature out of doors sent everybody
| in with just the condition Of mind to appre-
ciate the story Of warmth anywhere, just so it
| was genuine.
Miss Laura Clay of Kentucky, who made a
| report as chairman of the committee on south
ern work, found attentive listeners.
Mrs. DuBoise, who read Mrs. Claudia D.
Howard's report of the suffrage work in Geor-
gia, was supplemented by another voice from
below Mason and Dixon's line, Mrs. Avery
| reading Mrs. Caroline Z. Merricks report for
Louisiana. Mrs. Mary Bentley Thomas of
Montgomery county, Nd, said that she
represented suffrage society of fifty
| members, made up of many
| men and youths women. She said that the
appointment of police matrons in Baltimore
was a big step in the line of woman's advance
ment, and had been frequently the entering
wedge for them to get better representation.
| Mrs. Chamberlin of Tampa. Fla, made a
| delightful speech. She said her society was
only two weeks old and ought not really
| be abroad in such cold weather. As
she had promised to do suffrage
work the only way she could redeem
that promise was to get suffrage doctrines in
| the newspapers. She had asked for a column.
which, to the best of her ability, she had en-
deavored to fill with suffrage matters. She
wanted to be a voter, because she was a tax
payer and because she wanted to have some
thing to say in public matters.
| Her description of the formation Of the Tampa
society exceedingly interesting, and she
promised next year when their eve teeth were
cut to be able to show better results.
ONLY ONE DAY OLD.
The baby society, the Virginia Suffrage Asso-
| citation, which is only one day old, bad q most
interesting chapter on Southern Women and
Suffrage by the delegate. Mrs. Ora Langhorne.
read by that lady's young and attractive niece,
Miss Daingerfield.
When she finished it Mrs Anthony came as
near as she is ever likely to breaking down. Her
| voice was husky and big tears glistened behind
| her gold spectacles she spoke Of Mrs. Lang
horne's long and devoted service to the suffrage
| work.
The other parts of this broad land heard from
| this morning had most energetic representa-
| tives. Mrs. Picker. wife of Representative
Picker Of South Dakota, made an address Of
telling importance.
| She talked offhand and entirely as one ac-
| customed to it. She said that the suffragists
were grievously disappointed at the loss Of the
suffrage amendment TO the constitution at the
| last election. but it was partly compensated for
in the election of thirteen women superin-
| tendents out of the fifty counties of the state.
She said the women were going to knock at
the doors Of every legislature until they
were given representation. Next year they
were going to have something to say
about the divorce laws in their state
South Dakota had pretty easy methods
l of getting divorces, but she did not think very
| much easier than in other states. They also
intended to ask for the appointment of women
on all the state charitable and educational
boards, and were determined to get these
| crumbs at least.
! ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
| Mrs. Nelly Holbrook Blynn of San Francisco,
| Cal, who is a well-known organizer in political
| field, as we'll as the suffrage ques-
tions, and has stumped her own and
other states. made breezy address,
in which she told that the Pacific coast had long
| ago recognized the justice of the proposition
that women doing equal work with men should
| Mrs. Colby Of Nebraska whose state is way up
| head on woman suffrage matters, had a good
word to say Of what the women intend doing
| in the near future.
Before the convention adjourned it had an
| eloquent speech from Miss Laura Clay Of Ken
lucky. in which she laid down the proposition
| that the south was all ready for work
| ers and there were only four states
not organized. She said the women there were
| as far advanced as their northern sisters on all
| questions and it would be easier work to plant
good suffrage seed there than it had been forty
| years ago in the north.
Miss Anthony, who has been travelling for so
many years, snys that in her recollections of
conventions here, this is the coolest snap Of
them all. 1t has kept away about half the dele
| gates and visitors.
Among the ladies in the gallery witnessing
| the proceedings of the association was Mrs.
Green, proprietress of the Culpepper Exponent
| Mrs. Green is a representative Virginian, who
believes in a gradual and conservative enlarge
ment Of woman's sphere, but her sympathy
with the movement was not quite sufficient to
take her on to the floor.
| OTHER PROCEEDINGS TODAY.
The afternoon session was devoted to an cleo
ton Of officers, and the report of the commit
tee on resolutions with lengthy discussion.
| Tonight the program promises to be as inter-
esting as last night, and nobody is through
talking about that yet.
The addresses are report, Governors Opin-
ion on Woman Suffrage" Mary H. Williams,
District of Columbia; address, Comparisons
| are Odious, Carrie Lane Chapman. New York
and other addresses by Senator Carey. 1t is
hoped, Miss Eliza Yates of Maine and Mrs.
Blynn Of California. A letter from Lucy Stone
will be read.
| THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
| The hearing Of reports from the various
states was resumed at the afternoon session
yesterday. There was a. large attendance at the
evening session. MisssElizabeth Blaslaud sang
and report of series of constitutional con-
| ventions held in Kansas, which was prepared
| by Laura NJ. Johns, was read by Miss Jennie
Broderick Of Kansas, the daughter of Repre-