The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-27

Yorker this momentous question.
The wedge has been well driven into the
west. The plan for the present year in,
cluces q, canvas Of the south that will
leave no state in that section untouched
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. The
New York agitation will keep the east
alive. Now does it not behoOve all, even
the opposition, 10 keep an eye upon the
leaders, at least, of q movement, that If
successful, will revolutionize the present
idea of government
Who is responsible for the eeneralship
OF this army of women workers.
The president Of the National American
Suffrage Association, Aunt Susan" as
her followers love best to call her. is still
the active leader, despite her more than
three score years and ten. But probably
realizing the value of trained successor,
with her wonderful astuteness, Miss An
thony has chosen as her prime minister
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, one who is
undoubtedly destined to WELD the gavel
OF tie wonianS party when The time
comes for Miss Anthony to lay it down,
and who, in her present capacity as chair
man OF the committee on organization IS
practically the engineer that is drafting
the plan Of battle.
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, the present, and, as knowing ones
say, the future leader of the suffrage par
ty,- graphically Illustrates the Pioneer
and the RofR m IN b M9meh Iatobian ie
their ability-the one representing an ag-
aessfVeness that was a sort of necessity
~ he early DAYS OF the movement, when
lights was so full of briars and brush
wood that cutting and hewing was the on
~ way of opening up a passage in which
the other. armed with feminine grace and
EsIIaVitys of the college trained women can
employ the keeneSt weapon OF diplomacy.
Miss anthony still occasionally filings a
dart at the men, while Mrs. chapman
Gait pats them on the back. As the ell
der woman in her sometimes extreme
views stands as type of the progressive
woman Of the past, SO her coadjutor
EeepIng within q safe midway. stands for
the progressive woman of today.
Mrs Chapman Gait is eminently fitted
for a leader, being gifted with magnetic
presence, q. charming personality, fear
iessness where the good Of the cause is
concerned, and the power of making 9TH
err believe in her. Her quickly recog-
nized ability as a diplomat giving assur-
ance of no mistakes. As an orator she
has hardly a peer among women, and, i'll
deed, there are few men who can equal
her She speaks eXtemporaneously, en-
nloying the logic of statesman. her
voice is soft and full, having remarkab BILE
carrying powers. which, combined with
natural eloquence, gives her the charm OF
holding her audience enthralled-
This interesting young v oman: who IS
destined to be a factor in political life,
has gained her present high place in the
ranks of the.cause she so enthusiastically
champions after only i've years work. In
that time she has spoken in about one
half the states of the union Her ac-
duaintance with Miss Anthony dates from
her alliance with the suffrage work.
Mrs. Chapman Gait was born in Ripon,
Wisconsin, receiving her education at the
State Industrial college of Iowa, in which
state she spent most of her life pursuing
there the study of law. During late years
she has dividede her time between Cali
fornia and Washington. her present home
being in Observation-Disclosures a suburb
of Brooklyn Her husband business, con-
tractor for civil engineering, at present
requires her to reside near New York city.
KATHARINE MOBILES.