Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-13
|W0MAN'S BATTLE
Annual Convention of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association.
COLORADO NOV STANDS WITH WYOMING
The Sessions Promise to Be More
interesting Than Ever.
DELEG ATES COMING IN

The twenty-sixth annual convention of
the National American Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION, which is to commence at Met
zerott Hall next Thursday morning. to last
! for week. promises to be the most sue
cessful and interesting ever held by the as
ISOLATION in this city Every indication
points to large attendance Of delegates
and others interested in the work from all
parts Of the country. Miss Susan b. An
thony cAunt Susan" SO many of the
sunragists are beginning to call her, now
that she Is growing old in the cause of
woman is already here, but goes over to
Baltimore this afternoon to be present at
the state convention there Others of the
advance guard began to arrive today though
by far the larger number will not be here
until tomorrow
The convention this year will be note
worthy as celebrating the addition of
another star to the flag of the association.
Heretofore ii has been a case of star and
stripes. the star representing Wyoming, but
since the last convention the state of Col
orado has been trying her hand at woman
suffrage and the result is that her star is
to be added to that of Wyoming. Now 1t
so happens that the convention is to COM
mence this year on Miss Anthonys birth
day, and her fellow workers, who are no.
etc, even II they are wrapped up in the
cause of suffrage. are planning to present
her with Colorado Acknowledgement of
women" for birthday present. The souve-
mir is to take the form of a handsome two
starred silk flag. TO be presented on Thurs
day evening, when the meeting is to be
turned into general jubilation over the
victory of the year.
The governments recognition of woman
on the board OF managers for the worlds
Columbian exposition the worlds congress
OF representative women-the greatest con-
vocation Of women ever assembled-the par
ficipa ton of women in the entire series of
worlds congresses, as well as the gatSing
OF woman suffrage in Colorado, are all
looked upon as making the year one of
unprecedented advance for the cause of
women and as giving to their demand for
political equality unusual prestige in the
world of thought.
What the Delegates See.
With the question of woman suffrage
pending in Kansas and New York the dele
gates to the convention already in the city
claim to see "the rays of two more stars
peeping through the clouds Of darkness and
injustice and soon to be added in all their
brightness to the fair galaxy that represent
the rights of woman"
On Friday afternoon there is to be a me-
mortal service in honor of Mrs Lucy Stone
and others interested in the cause who have
passed away during the year. A feature of
the convention will be the unusual number
of southern women who will take part as
showing the increased interest that is be-
ing taken in the question in this section of
the country Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson
of New York, the secretary of the Kings
Daughters is to come out openly for woman
suffrage this year. Besides the presidents
of the auxiliary state associations. the
speakers invited to address the convention
are: Nine. Fanny Zampini Salazar of Italy,
and Mmc Hanna korany of Syria. who
IAIa -N,Il
representative women; Carrie Lane Chap
man, who was a most important factor in
the Colorado victory; Rev. Marion Muir
dock, Rev. Ida c. Hultin. Rev. Anna H.
Shaw. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe. Mary H. Krout, Mrs.
Mary Lowe Dickinson, Henry b. Blackwell
and others.
The Program in Detail
The public sessions of the convention will
be held at 10 am. and pm. every day
except Sunday, when there will be a re-
ligious service at 3 o'clock in the after
neon. The morning sessions will be de-
voted to the transaction of the business
of the association and the evening sessions
to addresses on various subjects.
The program arranged for the convention
is as follows: Thursday February 10, ex-
ecutive committee meeting, . am. Morning
session, 10 o'clock; convention called to or
der by the president, Susan B. Anthony;
roll call of officers. vice presidents and state
members of the executive committee, Alice
Stone Blackwell, recording secretary; min
utes Of the closing session of the twenty
fifth annual convention; appoir tment of
committees on finance. courtesies. creden-
tails and resolutions.
Evening o'clock-Address of welcome
Mr.. John W. Ross, president of the board of
Commissioners of the District of Columbia :
presidents address, Susan B. Anthony.
Colorado-Our New Star. Mrs. Carrie
Lane Chapman, New York; Mrs. l.. NJ.
Stansbury, vice president Of the Colorado
Suffrare Association, Nj. II. b. Blackwell,
Mass; Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Penn; Senator
Joseph NJ. Carey, Wyoming. Our Stars of
1894: Kansas and New York: Mrs. Laura
NJ. Johns, Mrs. Jean Brooks Greenleaf.
Friday morning, 10 o'clock.-Minutes. Re-
port of credential committee, Harriet Taylor
Upton. Report of corresponding secretary.
Rachel Foster Avery. Report of treasurer,
Harriet Taylor Upton. Report of southern
committee Miss Laura Clay. Afternoon, 3
o cock-Memorial service in memory of
Mrs. Lucy Stone. Elizabeth Cakes Smith,
Leland Stanford, Charles O'Neil, George w.
Childs. Addresses by Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe and others. Evening, 8 o'clock.z-Ad-
dresses: Mrs. Josephine X. Henry of Ken
lucky, Woman Suffrage in the South:
Miss Elizabeth U. Yates of Maine. Fash
ionable Thinking; Mrs. Ora Langhorne of
Virginia; Nine Hanna Korany of Syria,
Woman Suffrage from an Oriental Stand
point; Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson of New
York, secretary of the Kings Daughters.
Saturday morning. 10 clock-MinuteS.
Proposed amendments to the bylaws. Pre-
sentation of invitations for the twenty-sev-
enth annual convention Report OF con-
gressional committee, Susan B. Anthony.
Report of presidential suffrage committee,
H. b. Blackwell. Report Of federal suffrasy &c
committee Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby. Re-
port of petition committee DR.. Frances
Dickinson. Report of press committee. Mrs.
Ellen Battele Dietrich.
Evening, o'clock-Address, Mrs Miriam
Howard Du Bose, Some Georgia Curiosi-
ties" Address, Miss Harriet A. Shinn, I'LL
nois, president of the National Association
of Women Stenographers, Woman Suffrage
from Business Woman's Standpoint"
Address. Drs Sarah Hackett Stevenson,
Sunday-Religious service, 3 pm Eolun-
hymn. Sermon, text: Eph i:2, Put on
the Whole Armor of God" Rev. Marion
Murdoch, Ohio. Collection; hymn. The
music for this service will be under the d.
rection OF Prof Henry Wheaton Howard.
Notwithstanding, 10 o'clock. Minutes;
election of officers for the ensuing year;
report Of Kansas constitutional campaign
committee, Laura M. Johns; report Of COM
mittee on national headquarters, Eliza
Titus Ward; report of Columbian EXPOSE
ton committee, Rachel Foster Avery.
Evening, 8 o'clock-Presidents' evening:
Short addresses by Mrs. L. NJ. Stansbury,
Colorado; Mrs. Bennett, District of Column
bia; Mrs. Claudia Howard Maxwell Geor-
gia Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns. Kansas; Miss
Laura Clay Kentucky; Mary Bentley