The evening times., 1896-01-13
MISS ANTHONY ACCUSED
President Eliot of Harvard Says
She Misquated Him.
CHARGED WITH UNFAIRNESS
Extracts From an Article in the FO-
rum Perverted TO Make 1t Appear
Movement, when, I'm Fact, He Did
Not Refer to 1t at All.

Albany, y. Y. Jan. 13.-PresidentC Charles
". Eliot of Harvard University has adj
dressed letter through Mrs. j. V L. Pruyn
OF this city, 10 the Right Rev. William Cros-
well Doane, Episcopal bisLop CT Albany,
In which he severely criticiseS the call is
sued for tie twents Eight annual Conven-
ton of the National American Associa-
tion of Woman SuffraG lists, which is 10
be held in N Washington, j anUary 23 10 2S.
The part Of the call objected to and
President Eiiots references thereto Will
be read with interest by these people ali over
the country who are active either for or
against woman suffrage. TLey are coI-
tained in the iol owing, which W as furnished
the United Press by Bishop Doane:
MISS ANTHoNY'S CALL.
"Extract from the call OF the twenty
eighth annual convention OF the National
American Association OF Woman Suf
fragists:
''An friends of justice and equal rights
are earnestly invited to assemble in The
twenty-eighth annual convention of the
American Woman Suffrage Association
in the Church OF oar faIhcr, Washington,
January % to 2s.
1.-THE present day is bristiing with an
energy which has for its aim the elevation
OF our race i'll mental and moral directions,
IN every department, indeed, of human life.
Living under the law, helped and hindered
by Its enactmcnts. women are, by every
principle OF natural justice, as well as by
the nature of our Institutions, as fully Ell
titled as men to vote and to be eligible
to office. AS the president of Harvard
University says:
"'The exercise of suffrage stimulates
all citizens To reflect on problems out
side the narrow circle of their private iu-
terests and occupations. The du-
ties of republican citizenship, rightly dis
charged, constitute III themselves pro-
1oDged education. The bulwarks
of the commonwealth will prove all the
stronger and the more lasting because
women, as We'll as men. can work on them
and help to transmit them, ever broader and
firmer from generation 10 generation
'(Signed) SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
"Presid ident.
"RACHEL FOSTER AVERY,
Corresponding Secretary"
PRESIDENT ELIoT'S CRITICISM.
Harvard University, Jan. s, 1896.
"Tbe quotation in the call for the twenty
eighth annual convention of the National
Woman Suffrage Association introduced
by the clause, as the president of Har-
ward University says is from an article
by me In the Forum of October, 1894, eu-
titled Some Reasons Why the American
Republic May Endure
The last paragraph in the quotation is
separated from the articles by ten pages
from the preceding paragraphs of the quo
tation. In the last quoted paragraph The
buiwarks' should be these bulwarks.'
These bllwarks had just been enumerated
in the last para graph OF my article, nd the
whether for men, for women, or
for both, was not mentioned among these
bulwarks. The list is long and specific
and does not contain the suffrage. The
in which the quotation is printed
In the call, the alteration of these to
the and the Misrepresentation of my real
opinion make the extracts in the call
perfect example of misleading and unjust
quotation. You are at liberty to make
q ny use OF this article which may seem to
you desirable. Very truly yours,
CHARLES w. ELIOT"
Bishop Doane is strongly opposed to
woman suffrage and is its principal oppo-
pent in this section of the country.