The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-02-16

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
nection the convention heard reports from
the mem hers of the delegation from Kan
sas and New York Mrs. Lille Devereux
Blake spoke for New York and Mrs Laura
NJ. Jones for Kansas, and both spoke en-
couragingly.
The naming of committees and the usual
routine work of a convention occupied the
remainder of the days session.
In the evening a mass meeting was held
at which the principal speakers were Sen
ators Teller and Carey, and Representa-
tive Pence, of Colorado.
Colorado" the 'new star" in the flag
of the woman suffragists, came in for the
lions share of the discussion at the meet
ing, and half a dozen speeches and papers
had that topic for their basis. The first of
these was by Carrie Lane Chapman, of New
York, who, in a stirring speech, congratu-
lated her hearers on what had been accom-
plisbed in the cause of acknowledgment of
women, and urged her co-workers to push
forward again for victory that was already
within sight.
Senator Teller said he had long ago
reached the conclusion that an intelligent
suffrage was the safeguard of the republic
1t did not take him long to decide that any
system which excluded half the intelligent
people of the right of franchise was not
calculated to be for the best interests of
the whole people. The senator believed
that the time was coming when women
from every state in the land would not
} only be allowed to vote but would exercise
( that right.
! Mr.. II. b. Blackwell, of Massachusetts,,
a prominent workerin the woman suffrage
cause. made an address reviewing the
work done in Colorado for the advance
ment of woman suffrage. In 1892, he said,
/ the legislature enacted woman suffrage
| law to be voted upon in lS93 1t was heart
lily supported by the trades unions and
knights Of Labor, by Populists and Re
publicans as parties, and by many individ-
ual Democrats. The law was ratified by
$500 majority. colorado now stood side
by side with Wyoming, with women on
perfect political equality with men.
In beginning his address Senator Carey
paid a hearty tribute to Miss Susan b.
Anthony, the president of the association.
He continued in part as follows.
"She (Giss Anthony has given the years
of her youth and is now deyoting the en-
ergies Of her mature life to the accom-
plishment Of q noble purpose Tonight we
congratulate her and her army Of asso-
ciates on the new victory, the most marked
our common country, symbolioal of the
political equality of woman with man. To
Colorado is due the honorable distinction
that cannot be awarded, up TO this time, to
any other state in the Union, of granting
to the women of that state, by direct
vote composed exclusively Of male elec
tors, their full political right, That this
should have been done in Colorado is the
highest compliment that could be paid to
wyoming the first territory and state tC
grant to woman the full rights of suffrage
In Colorado it was not an instantaneous
conversion, announced with brass bands
and parades but decision arrived at aftei
long and mature deliberation. 1t is my
deliberate opinion that it will not be many
years before woman suffrage win be tn,
\ rule and not the exception in all of th'
I trans-AIissouri country. 1t is frequentl!
asserted that the women of Wyoming dc
not vote for presidential electors. l wisl
4 to state that they not only vote for presi
4 Dental electors, but for all federal, state
county, municipal and school officers, ant
2 the same will now be true of Colorado
; also.n
Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, of Roches
ter, n. Y, president of the New York Stat
society, read a paper having for its subiec