The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-12
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1895.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

To-day the city of New York win
witness a UNIQUE demonstration. The
eightieth birthday anniversary of Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton will be celebrated;
the Metropolitan opera house will be
the scene of the ceremonies; formal
addresses have been arranged; and 1t
is claimed that nearly three-quarters
of a million women will be represent
ed. 1t viii be a remarkable gathering.
Frances willard will be one Of the
orators; Susan B. Anthony has a place
on the programme: Ellen Foster will
talk; Harriet Hosmer. Julia Ward
Howe and other women of national
repu TIA ton will be seen and heard.
Mrs. Stanton is the oldest new wo-
man-during the long years of her
eventful career she has steered clear
of some of the radical notions of her
sex. She did not fall in with Mrs.
Bloomer. forty odd years ago, and don
Unlocking pantaloons and short peuti-
coats: she never favored DR.. Mary
Walkers fondness for mems clothes.
But she has been far in advance of
many other so-called strong minded"
women-as long ago as 1S4s. in the
first women's rights convention ever
held in this country. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton argued in favor of the suf-
frage for women. and she committed
the convention to the suffrage PROPOSE
ton. in spite of the fact that women
go Il
posed the plan, on the proposition that
1t was too radical.
Mrs. Stanton is "a native New Yorker
-Johnstown was the place of her
birth. Her mother was 1.-THE child of a
distinguished American family; her
father. Judge Cady. was a man of ex-
cellent ability who gained distinction
in the practice of law. She was
young woman of unusual beauty-lt is
said of her that she has grown old
gracefully and that to-day there is an
unusual charm in her appearance and
in her manner. Ait the age of twenty
five she married an estimable man
with whom her life and companion
ship were of the happiest sort.
Beyond dispute. Mrs. Stanton has
time the advance of woman along in
tellectual lines. in professional work
and in HES higher walks and ways
has been remarkable-a result that
has the hearty apDroVal of all intelll-
gent people. woman's sphere, as
Iz.ss - -.
come to regard 1t along many lines. is
no longer sneered at. womanhood has
achieved a dignity which formerly IT
could not claim. Probably the newest
among the new women have struck
out on uangents which even Mrs. Stan
ton does not approve: it remains to be
seen whether certain very recent no.
tions respecting women are merely a
passing fad or logical bit Of evolu-
ton.
Essentially. however. Mrs. tanton's
work was the promotion of suffrage for
women. There are states in the union
where women have the right to vote.
but II must be said that. in the wide
region which Mrs. Stanton has faith
fully campa1gned these many years. II
does not appear that the female-suf-
frage plan has made conquests OF ac-
count; nor viii IT. in our belief, for
many years TO come.
At the same time. the American peo-
pie will unite Ia congradulating the
venerable lady who is the central fig
ure in to-days festivities: not for the
reason that she is what the world has
fallen into the habit of calling the new
woman. but because in the relation OF
wife and mother. in her social infiu-
ence. in her public experience, in her
fideliey TO her convictions. in her abid-
ing interest en- every good work and
her intelligent performance OF the mis-
sion she took upon herself-because in
all rhese things she has done honor e
American womanhood and earned the
DISTINGUISHED attentions Of which she
is to be the recipient to-day.
Many wild stories are started thes'
DAYS concerning the intentions OF GER
tain Americans respecting Cuba. Mos
- @har, are shortiived warns hut TN.